Role: Principal Software Architect (Financial Platforms)
Location: Boston
Comp: Competitive packes up to $260,000 P/A
We're partnering with an innovative technology organisation on the build-out of a next-generation financial platform. This is a senior architecture leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, shaping long-term technical strategy, and influencing the design of highly scalable, mission-critical applications.
What you'll be doing:
- Define and own the architectural vision for a large-scale, cloud-native platform handling high-volume transactional workloads.
- Design event-driven, distributed systems with a focus on performance, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Guide technology decisions across APIs, data architecture, messaging, and application design patterns.
- Partner with engineering leadership and senior stakeholders to drive technical governance and strategic design initiatives.
What we're looking for:
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a senior architecture or principal-level role.
- Strong background designing high-throughput distributed systems within financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated environments.
- Expertise with event-driven architectures, cloud-native application design, and modern microservices ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as Kafka, Java, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, and large-scale data platforms.
Interested?
If you're an experienced architect looking to influence the design of a business-critical platform from the ground up, we'd love to have a confidential conversation.