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[Remote] Lead Software Development Engineer

Remote · Malaysia Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Envestnet is hiring a Lead Software Development Engineer to build scalable, secure platforms and reporting solutions for financial services. The role leads architecture and technical decisions, integrates AI/ML capabilities, and partners across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver reliable systems that meet business and regulatory needs.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for building scalable, secure platforms in support of Envestnet business operations, including wealth management, financial data aggregation and advisor-driven technology solutions. Works across cloud-based architectures, integrating complex data sources and APIs to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. Collaborates with product managers, data scientists and compliance stakeholders to meet both business and regulatory requirements
  • Architects and designs systems, services, or platforms with broad impact
  • Leads technical decision-making for major features or initiatives
  • Breaks down complex problems into scalable and maintainable solutions
  • Drives cross-team collaboration and align technical solutions with business goals
  • Establishes and enforces best practices in architecture, coding, and deployment
  • Mentors engineers across multiple levels and contribute to talent development
  • Anticipates technical risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies
  • Leads incident response and root cause analysis for critical issues
  • Influences roadmap planning through technical insight and feasibility analysis
  • Partners with DevOps/SRE to improve system reliability, deployment automation, and observability
  • Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines for owned services, improving deployment speed and safety
  • Implements infrastructure-aware design decisions (scalability, failover, resiliency, cost)
  • Leads the design and delivery of scalable reporting solutions, leveraging Java and/or Python, cloud infrastructure, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and SQL/NoSQL technologies
  • Specializes in AI/ML integration, LLM-based capabilities, and AI platform engineering, including the support and enhancement of production AI/ML applications
  • Utilizes agentic coding tools and AI-enabled development practices to accelerate feature delivery, improve code quality, and enhance software development lifecycle efficiency
  • Partners with business, product, and quality engineering stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, maintainable solutions and ensure successful end-to-end delivery

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required
  • 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
  • 2+ years designing, delivering, or integrating production-grade AI/ML systems, LLM-based applications, AI platform capabilities, and agentic workflows
  • Experience with Python-based AI/ML application support, enhancement, maintenance, reliability, scalability, and production readiness
  • Strong knowledge of AI cost control, evaluation, governance, LLM integration patterns, stateful agents, memory patterns, and practical AI use case delivery
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka or asynchronous messaging, cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and observability practices
  • Demonstrated ability to lead architectural decisions, define technical standards, conduct code reviews, and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience in fintech, reporting, real-time financial platforms, regulated production environments, or other domains requiring strong data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and scalability
  • Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to accelerate feature delivery, code review, testing, and SDLC execution
  • Master's degree

Benefits

  • Remote work model.
  • An additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.
  • Subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules: medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage, and mental health & wellness support.

Company Overview

  • Envestnet provides integrated technology, intelligent data, and wealth solutions to registered investment advisors, banks, and dealers. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.envestnet.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Envestnet has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 15 in 2026, 21 in 2025, 38 in 2024, 29 in 2023, 40 in 2022, 49 in 2021, 27 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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