Lead Engineer - Infrastructure Job in Arcesium

Lead Engineer Infrastructure

Location: Hyderabad

Company: Arcesium

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm tackling complex, data-driven challenges for some of the world s most sophisticated financial institutions. With a focus on continuous innovation, we develop powerful, scalable solutions that empower our clients to achieve transformational business outcomes. As a leader in fintech, Arcesium combines cutting-edge technology with a deep understanding of finance, setting us apart as we continue to scale and expand into new strategic opportunities.

We are a culture of intellectual curiosity, ownership, and collaboration, where team members contribute meaningfully from day one and grow rapidly in their careers.

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Lead Infrastructure to join our core engineering team in Hyderabad. This high-impact team is responsible for the backbone infrastructure that powers Arcesium s global fintech platform, including Linux Compute, Networking, Observability, SDLC, Access & Identity Management, and Storage, primarily deployed over AWS and Kubernetes.

As a Lead Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority, driving architecture decisions, ensuring high engineering standards, and leading initiatives that deliver critical infrastructure capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Own and serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for one or more core infrastructure subsystems.
• Lead by example across coding, testing, scalability, documentation, and code quality best practices.
• Contribute to and lead architecture and design discussions, evaluate technical trade-offs, and drive consensus.
• Lead project execution and delivery take ownership of project timelines and technical direction.
• Automate and optimize infrastructure services and system operations.
• Promote a culture of transparent, written collaboration and continuous process improvement.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices across the team and mentor junior engineers.

What You'll Need

6+ years of hands-on engineering experience with a strong background in:

• Programming languages: Java, Python, React
• Systems and infrastructure tools (e.g., Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, SFTP, Kerberos)
• Access & Identity Management and Service Discovery

Proven experience in:

• Designing and managing microservices architectures
• Building robust CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Operating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Implementing observability frameworks (monitoring, logging, alerting)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, particularly in AWS environments.
• A security-first mindset, especially around access control and authentication.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Passion for clean code, system design, and solving deep infrastructure challenges.

Bonus Points For:

• Exposure to modern infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience in financial services or working with regulated environments.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure tools or communities.

Why Arcesium?

• Impact: Work on critical systems that power global financial institutions.
• Culture: A collaborative, respectful, and inclusive workplace.
• Growth: Accelerate your development with a steep learning curve and autonomy.
• Purpose: Help shape the future of financial technology.

Arcesium is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are core to our values not just legal commitments. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.