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Akoya · 5 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityLead/Staff
money$140K/yr - $180K/yr
date10+ years exp

Akoya is an API-based network backed by major financial institutions that creates a safer and more transparent way for people to safely send their personal financial data to third-party financial apps. They are seeking an experienced software engineer who will write maintainable code, lead technical projects, and collaborate with teams to define API requirements.

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Hiring Manager
Susie Campbell
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Responsibilities

Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code optimized for performance and scalability to handle high-volume traffic
Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Akoya’s broad strategic initiatives
Monitor and debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and deliver high-quality features
Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes

Qualification

GolangDistributed systemsCloud systemsUnix/Linux internalsContainer architecturesAWS environmentPerformance optimizationCustomer obsessionMentorshipTechnical documentation

Required

10+ years of professional hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Demonstrated experience with Golang is required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong software engineering skills and a passion building scalable and performant systems
Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals (e.g. filesystems, system calls), and with networking and cloud systems

Preferred

Experience with container and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Development and/or Operations experience with a production AWS environment
Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
Experience with message queues and event driven architectures (e.g., ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
Knowledge of observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ElasticacheEC2, SQS, SNS, etc..)

Company

Akoya

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Akoya transforms the way people share their data by making it more secure, private, reliable, and transparent.
dateFounded in 2018
location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.akoya.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Akoya has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (9)
2024 (7)
2023 (4)
2022 (5)
2021 (5)
2020 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2020-01-01Seed

Leadership Team

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Paul LaRusso
Chief Executive Officer
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Greg Chan
Chief Technology Officer
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Recent News

Finovate
JPMorgan on Data Access Agreements: “The Free Market Worked”
2025-11-19
Payments Cards & Mobile
JPMorgan data aggregators deal good for Open Banking in the US
2025-11-18
Investing.com
JPMorgan secures deals with fintech aggregators over fees to access data, CNBC reports
2025-11-14
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