Principal Software Engineer – Tech Lead Job New York New York USA,Software Development

Location: New York

Act as technical owner for existing and new components within the Prime Equity Finance space
Own and manage an agile development process for the local team
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to developers while remaining hands-on
Produce robust, tested, modern software components
Own development of Java applications with focus on correctness, resilience, and quality
Manage the full software development lifecycle from initial discussions through design, development, testing, and deployment
Conduct code reviews and design reviews
Follow global development and change-management standards
Collaborate with traders and operations to understand needs and create technical solutions
Help build a strategic platform for Global Equities and solve local/global business problems
Communicate professionally with IT staff and business clients under strict deadlines
Collaborate with global technology, business, client, and vendor teams across a matrix reporting environment
Document discussions, solutions, and processes; track development and issues using Confluence and Jira
Share ideas, observations, and improvements with the global team
Assist Production Services and traders with issue resolution when needed
Document postmortems and own follow-ups
Help maximize system uptime and minimize business impact during incidents

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar
10–15 years of demonstrable hands‑on development experience
Minimum 7+ years of hands‑on Java, C++, C#, Rust, or Python development
Strong domain knowledge of Securities Lending, including trade lifecycle, locate/availability management, collateral processing, rate calculation, and funding
Knowledge of Equity Synthetics and Equity Trading workflows
Java 21, Collections, Spring Boot 3, Java Streams API, concurrency, profiling, garbage collection, JDBC, and JMS
Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, stored procedures, and query plan optimization
Experience with No

SQL databases such as MongoDB and in‑memory caching technology such as Redis
Experience with messaging and streaming data infrastructure
Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns, including user‑experience‑driven UI development
Experience deploying microservices to Docker/Kubernetes
Understanding of infrastructure tooling and best practices
Preferred: HTML5 frameworks, React, Redux, Web Sockets, CSS/Tailwind, Ag Grid, Kafka/Pulsar, reactive programming, Rising Wave/Flink/Kafka Streams/Spark, Apache Camel, AWS, S3, Lambda, Git Lab CI/CD, Ansible, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, Bash, KDB, Click House, Snowflake, BPMN/Camunda, and agentic AI development
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills and status reporting skills
Proactive learning mindset and ability to take initiative
Demonstrated interest in technology and modern software design/architecture

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in Java application development, agile methodologies, and software design principles while providing technical leadership and mentorship. Proficient in managing the full software development lifecycle and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver robust technical solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Java Development
Agile Development Process Management
Securities Lending Domain Knowledge
Microservices Deployment
Relational Database Management

Hard Skills

Java 21
C++
C#
Rust
Python
SQL
No

SQL
Microservices
Software Design Principles
Concurrency

Soft Skills

Technical Leadership
Mentorship
Analytical Problem‑Solving
Verbal Communication
Written Communication

Industry Keywords

Securities Lending
Trade Lifecycle
Collateral Processing
Equity Trading Workflows
Rate Calculation

Tools & Technologies

Spring Boot 3
Docker
Kubernetes
Confluence
Jira
Redis
MongoDB
AWS
Git Lab CI/CD
Kafka

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