Lead Engineer - Corp Tech

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer - Solutions Engineering to join our Corporate Technology team. You will own and drive the internal ticketing platform - Arcesium’s internal ticketing and workflow engine powering request management, incident handling, and automation across the organization.

This is primarily a hands-on engineering role with a technical leadership component. You will spend most of your time writing code, designing systems, and solving engineering problems, while also mentoring a small team and driving platform direction. The ideal candidate is a strong Java backend engineer comfortable working across the full stack, with a platform-ownership mindset - from code to production.

What You’ll Do

1. Platform Ownership: Own the Ticketing platform end-to-end — architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.
2. Backend & Full-Stack Development: Build and maintain production-grade Java services, work with SQL Server for query optimization and schema migrations, and contribute to frontend changes when needed.
3. DevOps & Cloud: Own CI/CD pipelines (Git, Maven/Gradle, GitLab CI) and manage containerized deployments on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
4. Observability & Incident Response: Build monitoring dashboards and alerting. Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
5. Security: Ensure platform security — authentication, authorization, secrets management, cross-client isolation, and annual security upgrades.
6. Team Leadership: Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical direction. Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders on delivery and roadmap.
7. Documentation: Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records.

What You’ll Need

1. Backend Engineering — Java: Strong expertise in Java including concurrency, collections, streams, and JVM internals. Comfortable working with vendor or legacy codebases.
2. SQL Server: Hands-on experience with query optimization, schema migrations (Liquibase), connection pool management, and performance monitoring.
3. Full-Stack Capability: Proficiency in JavaScript and modern UI frameworks. Able to build, review, and debug frontend code when needed.
4. DevOps & Cloud (AWS): Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker, ECS), and AWS services.
5. APIs & Distributed Systems: Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices patterns.
6. Security: Understanding of web application security — authentication, authorization, access control, and secrets management.
7. Problem Solving: Strong debugging skills with a structured approach. Ability to lead incident response under pressure.
8. Leadership: Ability to mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and take ownership of platform initiatives. Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

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