Lead Software Development Engineer

Description

Job Location

The primary work location for this role is Trivandrum with a hybrid 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

On the Tamarac development team, we build one of the industry’s most advanced portfolio management and trading platforms for RIAs. We tackle complex engineering challenges every day—from large scale data ingestion and analytics to deep system integrations, high performance trading algorithms, and a robust full stack web experience used by thousands of advisors.

As we continue to scale the platform—supporting 50+ million trades annually—we’re modernizing our architecture to meet growing demand while delivering innovative, advisor focused features. Our engineers collaborate across disciplines to build AI powered insights, enhance cross platform capabilities, and design resilient, cloud native systems.

This is a rare opportunity to join us in shaping the technical roadmap of a leading trading platform—driving how we scale, evolve, and deliver capabilities that elevate both the advisor and client experience, with real world impact from day one.

How You’ll Contribute

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. Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.Leads cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, product, and business teams.Designs and improves enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, deployment strategies, and automation pipelines.Partners with DevOps/SRE to define infrastructure patterns (scalability, observability, resilience).Actively utilizes agentic coding tools throughout the SDLC to accelerate feature delivery and drives adoption of AI-assisted development practices across the team.

What You’ll Need To Bring

Candidates should demonstrate the relevant experience, skills, and capabilities needed to successfully perform in the role. Relevant experience may be gained through current responsibilities, prior roles, project work, leadership opportunities, or other comparable experiences.Strong technical background with .NET, C#, RESTful APIs, and API management solutions.Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Redis.Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, and SQS.Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.Experience designing, delivering, or integrating production-grade AI/ML systems, LLM-based applications, AI platform capabilities, and agentic workflows.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 architecture, asynchronous messaging, cloud infrastructure, 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, or regulated production environments 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.

Nice-to-Haves

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required; master's degree preferred.Software engineering experience, including technical leadership for major features, systems, services, or platforms with broad impact.

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!

Our Investment in You

At Envestnet, our total rewards philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and grow exceptional talent. We offer competitive, market-aligned compensation complemented with performance-linked incentives and rewards programs that recognize and reward impact.

In addition, we provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being, including medical insurance for you and your family, annual health check-ups, free online doctor consultations and telemedicine services, subsidized health club memberships, and an employee assistance program. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

Envestnet is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of religion, race, color, caste, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability, medical condition, nationality, ethnic origin, marital status, or any other status protected under applicable Indian law. This commitment is in accordance with the Constitution of India and applicable labor and employment laws. All employment decisions are made solely based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs.

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 [email protected]. 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.

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