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Description
The application window will close September 7, 2026
Job Location
The primary work location for this role is remote.
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
Defines and drives the technical vision and long-term system designs that support scalable, secure and reliable financial technology platforms. Collaborates with product, engineering, security and infrastructure teams to translate business strategy into clear architectural standards and roadmaps. Guides team on modern cloud, data and integration patterns while ensuring compliance with regulatory, risk and resiliency requirements. Evaluates emerging technologies and makes recommendations that balance innovation with stability, cost and operational efficiency. Ensures the Envestnet technology ecosystem remains cohesive, future-ready and aligned with business growth and client needs.
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 open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship
Our Investment in You
This role offers a base salary range of $167,500 to $209,400. 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.
Recruitment Fraud
At Envestnet, safeguarding the trust and safety of job seekers is a top priority. We are aware that scammers may impersonate Envestnet recruiters or create fake job opportunities to deceive candidates. Review the information on our recruitment fraud awareness page to help you recognize and avoid recruitment fraud.
The application window will close September 7, 2026
Job Location
The primary work location for this role is remote.
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
Defines and drives the technical vision and long-term system designs that support scalable, secure and reliable financial technology platforms. Collaborates with product, engineering, security and infrastructure teams to translate business strategy into clear architectural standards and roadmaps. Guides team on modern cloud, data and integration patterns while ensuring compliance with regulatory, risk and resiliency requirements. Evaluates emerging technologies and makes recommendations that balance innovation with stability, cost and operational efficiency. Ensures the Envestnet technology ecosystem remains cohesive, future-ready and aligned with business growth and client needs.
- Leads requirements elicitation sessions for defined features or systems and translates them into structured architecture specifications.
- Designs end-to-end solutions for medium complexity systems aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
- Owns system integration design across multiple applications, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reliability.
- Defines technical approaches for software implementation, installation, upgrades, and migration within assigned domains.
- Evaluates design trade-offs and recommends solutions balancing functionality, cost, operational efficiency, and risk.
- Applies cloud, data, security, and integration patterns to deliver robust and reusable architectures.
- Collaborates with product and engineering teams to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical design.
- Identifies gaps or conflicts in requirements and resolves them through structured architectural analysis.
- Contributes to defining and refining architectural standards within a domain or product area.
- Stays current on technology trends and applies relevant innovations where appropriate to improve solution outcomes.
- Designs scalable and reliable technology solutions that support modern trading capabilities, leveraging cloud architecture, integration patterns, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven technologies.
- Applies expertise with modern engineering technologies, including .NET, AWS services, Kubernetes, and Kafka, to deliver high-quality solutions in a product engineering environment.
- Utilizes agentic coding tools to accelerate design validation, prototype integrations, and generate technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting/Finance with technology experience, or a related field.
- Hands-on architecture experience designing scalable, reliable, and reusable systems across cloud, data, security, and integration patterns.
- Experience evaluating design trade-offs across functionality, cost, operational efficiency, reliability, scalability, and risk.
- Experienced with C4 architecture modeling, data architecture, enterprise architecture standards, and architectural governance practices.
- Technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs
- Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, or ElastiCache.
- Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP cloud services .
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting/Finance with technology experience, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of trading domain systems, system integration design, implementation planning, upgrades, migrations, and operational risk considerations.
- Experience with API management solutions such as Apigee.
- AWS experience using services including EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS.
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 open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship
Our Investment in You
This role offers a base salary range of $167,500 to $209,400. 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.
Recruitment Fraud
At Envestnet, safeguarding the trust and safety of job seekers is a top priority. We are aware that scammers may impersonate Envestnet recruiters or create fake job opportunities to deceive candidates. Review the information on our recruitment fraud awareness page to help you recognize and avoid recruitment fraud.
Salary : $167,500 - $209,400