Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and WeBull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

• 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards
• 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company
• 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards

The Apex Clearing engineering team is looking for a Manager of Software Engineering to give technical thought leadership and high-quality system design to our high-volume, high-availability trade clearing platform. We partner with some of the industry's hottest next-generation stock trading products. You'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits.
Apex development teams are charged with building the services our clients love and are at the heart of our future product innovations. Apex has begun its transformation from on-premise infrastructure to the Cloud (GCP & AWS), and our team handles transforming our products into the next generation clearing platform that will steer our industry for years to come. We are in need of software engineers to design and implement our cloud-native (GCP/AWS), event-driven (Apache Kafka) microservice architecture.
What you will do:

• Work closely with other managers, tech leads, and and business teams building products and services for customers of Apex
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Learn from and apply design techniques and coding standards coached by our Senior Engineers.
• Build resilient, self-scaling, self-healing services that allow you to sleep through the night.
• Support the production systems that you build. This includes build, deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty).
• Writing high-quality, well-tested code. Maintaining high code-quality standards across your team via code reviews.

What you can expect:

• A highly collaborative environment where everyone is focused on outcomes that build momentum for Apex to reach its goals.
• A culture that values a test-centric approach to software development where 100% unit test coverage is the expectation.
• End-to-end ownership of what you deploy. From documentation to service-level targets, your team drives the health of your products.
• Contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning. Access to mentors, generous policies on attending industry conferences and book reimbursement, regular lunch and learns.
• An environment committed to using the right tool to get the job done.
• Work that matters.

The skills you'll need to succeed:

• 3-5+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles
• BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
• Proven experience in at least one modern language (Java, C#, C++, Go, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform / Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Experience with Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Google Pub/Sub
• Financial services background is a plus

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