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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor. Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors. Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security. Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in. DESCRIPTION Pontera is looking for an outgoing and enthusiastic Business Development Representative (BDR) to join our team. As a BDR, you will play a pivotal role in representing our company as the initial point of contact to prospective clients of the platform. You’ll find yourself with a massive opportunity for growth, with support from management and mentors. You’ll gain invaluable experience and real-time gratification in a place where your work and your efforts will be instantly seen and felt. RESPONSIBILITIES Identify and generate new business through proactive outbound prospecting Gain interest through cold calling, email campaigns, and social touches Utilize excellent organizational skills to create an accurate and relevant follow up prospect list Overcome obstacles and objections to effectively build pipelines REQUIREMENTS Demonstrated ability to build professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders Self-motivated with ability and eagerness to work in fast paced environment Excellent written & verbal communicati

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $120K/yr

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Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor. Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors. Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security. Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in. DESCRIPTION We're looking for a Senior Billing Operations Specialist to partner closely with Finance, Customer Experience, BI and Product to give billing a single, accountable owner. This is a true partnership across teams: you'll bring order and control to billing operations while continuously raising the bar for how accurate, explainable, and responsive Pontera's billing is for every customer. Billing at Pontera has outgrown the informal, all-hands-on-deck model that carried it so far - it now touches customer trust, adoption, and executive relationships, not just back-office accuracy. You're the connective tissue across the entire billing lifecycle - the person every other function turns to when something needs to actually get resolved, not just flagged. That means owning billing file validation before release, payment and check reconciliation, credits and refunds end to end process; being the Finance point of contact for all US based teams who they can rely on for any customer-impacting billing issue. The ability to serve as the busi

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $125K/yr

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Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor. Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors. Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security. Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in. DESCRIPTION Pontera is seeking an exceptional Advisor Success Manager to join our growing team. This is a high-impact, pure sales role focused on the critical "0 to 5" activation phase of the advisor lifecycle. You will be responsible for guiding new advisors through the initial phase of platform adoption, driving them to reach the foundational milestone of five clients with managed assets. The ASM role is built for a proactive professional who thrives on "closing focus" and creating urgency. You will manage a named pipeline of individual advisors and advisor teams across all segments and a diversity of firms, utilizing advanced sales methodologies to ensure advisors realize the full economic value of the Pontera platform. Role Purpose The primary mission of the ASM is to accelerate the "0 to 5" client journey. Data shows that an advisor’s likelihood of long-term success and retention (reaching 98%) is highly correlated with the speed at which they reach their first five clients. This role exists to move the curve by turning registered a

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $185K/yr

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Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor. Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors. Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security. Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in. DESCRIPTION As a Mid-Market Account Executive, you will lead the sales process for some of the fastest growing and disruptive Broker-Dealers and RIAs in the space (50+ financial advisors). You will be in a high-impact role with CEO-level visibility, tasked with bringing in clients capable of changing our company’s trajectory. This job is being made available at an incredibly important time in Pontera’s trajectory, and there are many reasons it’s a great opportunity: a product with an immediate, measurable revenue impact for the client (share of wallet growth), a massive addressable market, and dominant category leadership in professional 401(k) management. There is a ton of greenspace. And we are looking for someone with grit, resiliency, and professionalism to capture this incredible opportunity. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead multi-threaded sales processes across C-Suite, Compliance, InfoSec, Legal, and Field Leadership. You own the deal from initial conversation through negotiation and close. Map the buyers of our prospects. Understand the goals, pl

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$100K – $130K/yr

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Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor. Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors. Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security. Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in. DESCRIPTION Pontera is seeking a highly skilled and motivated IT Specialist to join the Global IT team and lead IT operations for the New York office. As part of Pontera’s Global IT organization, this position works closely with Infrastructure, Security, R&D, and Operations teams to support secure, stable, and scalable IT operations across the company. Serving as the primary IT owner for the NY office, the role is responsible for employee support, office infrastructure, endpoint management, SaaS administration, identity operations, and operational continuity in a fast-paced fintech environment. Responsibilities include hands-on operational support, infrastructure administration, endpoint and security operations, project execution, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate is a highly independent IT professional capable of managing operational responsibilities while collaborating within a global IT organization. RESPONSIBILITIES Onsite IT Operations & Employee Support Serve as the primary onsite IT owner for the NY office

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📍 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining software applications using the .NET framework. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet our clients’ needs. This position requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and a passion for continuous learning. What You'll Do: Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable applications and services using C# and the .NET framework. Collaborate with product managers, architects, developers, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and solution designs. Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and GraphQL services that support modern application and integration needs. Write clean, maintainable, and high-quality code following established software engineering principle

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📍 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, deployment, and support of cloud and platform engineering solutions that enable product development teams. You will partner across engineering functions to build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure while helping drive operational excellence through automation, observability, and continuous improvement. What You'll Do: Design, implement, and support cloud infrastructure solutions that enable the development and operation of Baxter products and applications. Manage infrastructure, platform, and deployment processes for product teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. Implement and support observability, monitoring, and alert

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📍 Boise, ID - Main Site, United States
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Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Principal ASIC Design Engineer About the Role At Micron, we transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. As a global leader in memory and storage innovation, we develop technologies that accelerate intelligence and enable the next era of AI, ML, and advanced computing. Micron’s Interface Pathfinding team drives performance-scaling innovation across circuits, signaling, packaging, and interconnects with a 3–5 year technology horizon. A core part of that work is silicon-based validation of novel PHY solutions, and we are growing the team to execute. As the Principal ASIC Design Engineer , you will be the primary digital contributor on a deliberately small, senior team — united around the goal of carrying high-speed interface technologies from architecture to tape-out. The team’s analog and chip-level architecture is anchored by a deeply experienced analog custom design engineer; your role is to be the authoritative digital voice — owning RTL design and micro-architecture of the digital blocks, defining timing constraints, supporting verification, and serving as the key interface between the digital design and the analog and layout specialists who will carry the implementation through to silicon. On a test ASIC of this scope, the front-end digital work is the critical path, with contractor and layout support engaged as bandwidth demands warrant. What You’ll Own Digital Block Architecture & RTL Design Own the micro-architecture and RTL implement

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📍 Bethesda, United States
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Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos , we offer competitive benefits , including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This Principal DevOps Engineer role provides mission critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products – legacy and new products – in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments. Primary Responsibilities: Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems. Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment. Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks. <l

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📍 Bethesda, United States
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Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos , we offer competitive benefits , including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary As a Software Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems, software, and cloud environments while providing operations and maintenance for critical systems. This role will provide technical expertise in the design, development, implementation and testing of customer tools and applications. Based in a DevOps framework, this role participates in and/or directs major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. Primary Responsibilities: Participates in and/or directs software programming initiatives using Java, JavaScript, Python, SpringBoot, and Hibernate. Develops software system validation and testing methods using Junit and Katalon and uses integrated custom developed software solutions to leverage automated deployment technologies Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging infrastructure platform services Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases Supp

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📍 Huntington Beach, Canada
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Principal Electro-Optical Infrared Design, Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is seeking a Principal Electro-Optical Infrared Design, Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer (Level 6) for a satellite development program in Huntington Beach or El Segundo, California. This position will lead a team of engineers, analysts and staff within the Space and Missile Systems (SMS) and Boeing Technology and Innovation (BTI) Mission Systems organizations in the development, assembly, integration, and test of a constellation of satellites. The SMS and BTI organizations develop and capture technology for designing disruptive Mission Systems solutions. Focused on visible and infrared spectrum Electro-Optics Infrared (EO/IR) sensors operating in Space and Air domains, our growing team is leaping ahead of our competition with an exceptional mix of mission architectures, sensor designs, and algorithms for advanced image and data processing. Position Responsibilities: Drives technical excellence throughout all Optical Sensor development activities Troubleshoots sensor design and integration issues with the telescope and sensor focal plane Provides technical leadership to SMS and BTI sensor teams Serves as the primary technical interface with the EO/IR suppliers Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Works closely with program manager, program chief engineer, and other Boeing teams Ensure mission success and prompt resolution of anomalies Provides mentoring and coaching to Optical Sensor Engineers and Technicians Performs Technical Lead Engi

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. NVIDIA GH200 superchip provides performance and productivity required for strong scaling for HPC and generative AI workload. Scale out is inherent to design of this massive superchip. We are looking for expert engineers to come and help design rack level solutions for next generation scaling AI supercomputing platforms. We are looking for a strong technical architect to own end to end manageability architecture for these products in data centers. You will work with various component leads internally and externally, drive customer use cases, align architecture with customer requirements and release best products to market. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. What you’ll be doing: Drive server management for large clusters and data centers deploying GPUs and Grace solution from Nvidia. Work with data center architects and cloud customers to narrow down on requirements for implementation to ensure speed of light product development. Work with internal teams to make sure requirements are designed and implemented in right way with each firmware and software module Collaborate with other leads to design & build data center health management workflow. Drive reliability and optimization in firmware architecture from a data center view point. Work closely with cluster bring up team and resolve is

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Principal Software Engineer Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company powering an inclusive digital economy. Through secure networks, data-driven insights, and innovative solutions, we enable safe, simple, and smart digital commerce across more than 210 countries and territories. Within Consumer Authentication Solutions (CAS), Mastercard delivers the critical authentication infrastructure that protects billions of digital transactions globally. CAS provides capabilities including EMV 3DS, Identity Check, Directory Services, Smart Authentication, tokenized authentication, issuer enablement, and risk-based authentication. As a Principal Software Engineer, you serve as a distinguished technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture, engineering strategy, and long-term technical direction of critical authentication platforms. You drive solutions to complex business and technical challenges, influence engineering decisions across multiple teams, and establish standards that improve the scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence of Mastercard's authentication ecosystem. This role requires deep technical expertise, exceptional system design skills, and the ability to lead through influence while mentoring engineers and advancing engineering excellence across the organizati

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📍 Amer, United States
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Job Requisition ID # 26WD95847 Position Overview Autodesk is seeking a motivated, experienced, and skilled engineer to join our Connected Delivery platform team. This platform is responsible for enabling the discovery, download, and install of all the Autodesk products, services, and third-part apps. You'll be responsible for building a full-stack application that is resilient, scalable, and highly available. As an ideal candidate, you’ll have led teams developing modern web experiences with cloud services in a fast-paced, agile environment. Responsibilities Lead, design, and develop high-quality, secure, performant applications Provide project and team leadership to break down, estimate, and organize work Participate in agile ceremonies of the scrum team Work closely with the product manager and team to understand and elaborate on the requirements Provide guidance to own team and others on software development best practices Work with the team to troubleshoot code-level problems quickly and efficiently Identify risk and propose mitigation strategies associated with the design Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to the highest standards Interact with internal and external customers to identify and resolve product defects Mentor and develop junior developers Respond on a rotation basis to escalated incidents after hours or on weekends to ensure 24/7 availability of our platform Minimum Qualification BS in computer scie

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📍 United States· Remote
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary We are seeking an accomplished Principal Cloud Storage Engineer to lead the design, engineering, and evolution of our private cloud storage platforms. This role will focus on large-scale storage architecture, data protection, cyber recovery, and resiliency technologies across complex enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in storage systems with strong leadership, architectural vision, and the ability to influence technical direction across the organization. Key Responsibilities Architect and engineer enterprise storage platforms that ensure data integrity, availability, security, and disaster recovery readiness Design and implement end-to-end storage solutions, including Software Defined Storage, SAN, NAS, and object storage across private cloud and data center environments Drive strategic technology decisions by evaluating emerging products, tools, and standards supporting storage, data protection, cloud, and compute platforms Lead infrastructure initiatives involving storage modernization, data protection, cyber recovery, data migration, and resilience engineering Develop and execute enterprise strategies for backup, recovery, cyber vaulting, and business continuity Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of storage architectures, configurations, policies, and operation

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