Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Description

The application window will close August 31, 2026.

Job Location

The primary work location for this role is a remote work model.

About Envestnet

Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs.

For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com.

The Team You’ll Join

You will join Envestnet’s Platform Engineering organization, a strategic team building the shared cloud platforms, services, and tools that power scalable, high-performing products across the enterprise. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll work alongside senior technical leaders to shape architecture, solve complex challenges, and influence engineering standards at scale - partnering closely with product and engineering teams to drive innovation and long-term growth. he team is focused on advancing modern platform capabilities, including cloud-native technologies and AI-enabled engineering practices, to improve reliability, accelerate delivery, and enhance developer experience.

How You’ll Contribute

Envestnet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Platform to help shape and build scalable platform capabilities used across modern engineering teams. This role offers the opportunity to work with cloud technologies, reusable services, APIs, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, modular AI components, and agentic coding workflows while influencing technical direction at enterprise scale.

Defines and drives long-term technical strategy and architecture across multiple systems.

Leads large-scale, high-impact initiatives that align with business objectives.

Solves highly complex and ambiguous technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Influences engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization.

Acts as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology decisions.

Mentors senior engineers and develops future technical leaders.

Evaluates and adopts new technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.

Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.

Champions adoption of agentic coding workflows across engineering teams to accelerate delivery velocity and improve quality throughout the SDLC.

What You’ll Need to Bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required.

10+ years of application, product, or platform engineering experience, including ownership of long-term technical strategy across multiple systems.

Extensive experience defining architecture for scalable, reliable, high-performing enterprise systems and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.

Strong background in platform engineering, cloud platforms, modern deployment models, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer or product platforms.

Experience influencing engineering standards, technical policies, best practices, architecture governance, and organization-wide technology decisions.

Proven ability to solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges and advise senior leadership on technical trade-offs.

Experience evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve scalability, reliability, performance, productivity, and competitive advantage.

Strong technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs, and API management solutions such as Apigee.

Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and ElastiCache.

Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS.

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.

Experience productizing AI capabilities into reusable services, APIs, and internal platforms, including standardized AI pipelines for prompting, retrieval, reasoning, validation, and enterprise reuse.

Knowledge of modular AI components, including agents, tools, evaluators, and composable AI patterns across products.

Experience mentoring senior engineers, developing future technical leaders, and championing agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve quality throughout the SDLC

Why You’ll Enjoy Working at Envestnet

Help shape the future of WealthTech. At Envestnet you’ll gain hands-on experience and collaborate with some of the industry’s brightest minds to deliver meaningful, innovative solutions that make a real difference.

We value flexibility in how and where work gets done, and we recognize strong performance with meaningful rewards - because your contributions should drive both business success and your own personal growth. If you’re looking for a place where your work has impact, your development is supported, and your contributions are truly valued, Envestnet is where you can build your future.

The opportunity is now!

Sponsorship

This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship

Our Investment in You

This role offers a base salary range of $184,200 to $230,300. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.

We provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being including, medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage and mental health & wellness support. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us. Please visit our benefits page on our career site to learn more.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

We strive to provide an inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation, please contact us at careers@envestnet.com. Please include your full name, the title of the role you are applying for, and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

Recruitment Fraud

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