About Eleven Recruiting
We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and build a path for career advancement. We advocate for the best pay, diversity in tech, and the best job fit for every candidate we place.
Our client, a global investment management firm, is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to join their team in El Segundo, CA!
Responsibilities:-
Lead projects and initiatives end to end, from shaping requirements with stakeholders through architecture, delivery, and long-term support.
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Own architecture and system design decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, cost, and speed to delivery.
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Turn ambiguous business needs into clear technical plans, and make sound decisions with minimal oversight.
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Stay hands-on, designing and building full-stack and backend services in Python and SQL, with React/TypeScript where it makes sense.
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Partner with portfolio managers, analysts, and business leaders to set priorities and manage expectations.
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Guide and mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and day-to-day support.
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Use AI-assisted development tools, and build workflows or automations that help the team ship faster, test smarter, and spend less time on repetitive tasks.
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Set engineering standards for the team, including how AI-generated code gets reviewed and validated.
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Troubleshoot and improve the reliability of distributed systems across the stack.
Qualifications:-
10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with a track record of shipping and owning production applications.
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Proven experience leading projects or engineering teams, as a tech lead, lead engineer, or in a similar role.
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Clear examples of high ownership, where you were accountable for outcomes, not just tasks.
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Deep architecture and system design expertise, including distributed and fault-tolerant systems, APIs, and data and entity modeling, with the ability to explain tradeoffs to technical and business audiences.
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Strong Python and SQL. Experience with at least one additional language, such as TypeScript, Go, C#, or Java.
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Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
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Hands-on experience using AI development tools to improve how you and your team build and ship software. Experience with any tools is welcome, and building your own workflows or automations is a strong plus.
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Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar for team engineering practices.
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Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), CI/CD, Docker, and Git.
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Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Pluses:-
Experience building AI into products, such as LLM integrations, RAG, or agents.
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Azure experience.
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React/TypeScript or Vue.js frontend experience.
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Event-driven or microservice architectures, Kubernetes.
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Large enterprise or regulated environments.
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Finance or investment industry exposure. This is not required.
Pay Rate: $120 - $150/hr
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