Description
The application window will close August 21, 2026
Job Location The primary work location for this role is remote anywhere in the U.S.
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 Envestnet is seeking a Software Development Engineering Director to help shape and build scalable platform capabilities used across modern engineering teams. This role offers the opportunity to work with cloud technologies, reusable services, APIs, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, modular AI components, and agentic coding workflows while influencing technical direction at enterprise scale. Other core responsibilities include…
- Defines and drives long-term technical strategy and architecture across multiple systems.
- Champions adoption of agentic coding workflows across engineering teams to accelerate delivery velocity and improve quality throughout the SDLC.
- Leads large-scale, high-impact initiatives that align with business objectives.
- Solves highly complex and ambiguous technical challenges with innovative solutions.
- Influences engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization.
- Acts as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology decisions.
- Mentors senior engineers and develops future technical leaders.
- Evaluates and adopts new technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
- Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.
What You’ll Need to Bring - 10+ years of application, product, or platform engineering experience, including ownership of long-term technical strategy across multiple systems.
- Extensive experience defining architecture for scalable, reliable, high-performing enterprise systems and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.
- Background in platform engineering, cloud platforms, modern deployment models, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer or product platforms.
- Experience influencing engineering standards, technical policies, best practices, architecture governance, and organization-wide technology decisions.
- Experience evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve scalability, reliability, performance, productivity, and competitive advantage.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and ElastiCache.
- Experience with AWS services including any of the following… 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.
- Experience productizing AI capabilities into reusable services, APIs, and internal platforms, including standardized AI pipelines for prompting, retrieval, reasoning, validation, and enterprise reuse.
Nice-to-Haves - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
- Technical background with .NET, C#
- Knowledge of modular AI components, including agents, tools, evaluators, and composable AI patterns across products.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers, developing future technical leaders, and championing agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve quality throughout the SDLC
- Proven ability to solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges and advise senior leadership on technical trade-offs
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!
Sponsorship
This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship
Our Investment in You
This role offers a base salary range of $184,200 to $230,300. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.
We provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being including, medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage and mental health & wellness support. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us. Please visit our benefits page on our career site to learn more.
Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging Envestnet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We welcome and value individuals of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
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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