Senior Software Engineer

WHO WE ARE
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, 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

ABOUT THIS ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us create modern solutions for the data platform in Apex. Apex is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling fintech standouts like Stash, Webull and Betterment. You will join the Apex Data Governance engineering team. Joining the team, you will be working alongside experienced software engineers, product managers, and data engineers to design, build, deploy, and maintain services and systems at the core of our cloud native Data Platform and APIs. We build and own services spanning across, APIs & data access, data processing services, tooling & infrastructure for storage & access, machine learning & predictive APIs, and engineering for data analytics. This role offers an opportunity to build cloud services across many of these domains, or specialize as an SME as you establish yourself within Apex. The ideal candidate is one that integrates well within a team and strives for collaborative, modern cloud engineering and team practices, acting as a multiplier for the team day to day.
What you might do day to day:

• Develop, test, and maintain microservice service architectures, pipelines, data stores, and other cloud systems for the Apex data layer and APIs.
• Collaborate and solve complex engineering problems, and solve them for scale with the autonomy to drive technical directions and decisions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, clients, and other stakeholders to understand client & business problems and requirements and work towards solutions.
• Create, and own scalable cloud services and pipelines for our various data-driven service domains.
• Manage, optimize, and improve existing cloud data platform solutions for performance, availability, scaling etc.
• Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable devSecOps practices.
• Work as a part of a productive development team that puts an emphasis on code quality, peer reviews, documentation and strong modern engineering practices.

You should have some of the following:

• Engineering degree or work experience equivalent in a relevant field
• Strong proficiency in relevant language(s) for building and deploying cloud (micro)services
• 2+ Experience in cloud engineering, particularly around; microservices, scalability and best practices, build and implementation, data technologies and services.
• 3+ Experience in infrastructure, modern IaC (e.g. Terraform), cloud service deployment and management, and modern CI/CD
• Ability to interpret technical design documents to build solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels to varied stakeholders.
• A desire to strive for modern collaborative engineering practices and standards, a DevSecOps mindset, and a desire to push good practice within your team and at a wider level to deliver value.
• Adaptability to learn new technologies/systems/languages as needed day to day.

You might have some of the following:

• Background experience in engineering within a data domain (e.g. data, data engineering, analytics)
• Experience working with modern database systems (e.g. Bigquery, Postgres, AlloyDb, Redis, etc)
• Understanding of event driven, real-time data pipelines, data replication, data streaming.

Experience in the financial industry is not required, but is a plus
Our Rewards
We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment
We're looking for all kinds of people.
At Apex, we believe that wealth management and investing should be accessible to everyone, and we strive to create spaces to democratize investing for folks of all walks of life. Internally, we embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, which reflects our company vision and mission. We value every team member's unique perspective and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone belongs. Join us in our mission to empower and celebrate individual differences.
Apex is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We ensure that qualified applicants receive fair consideration for employment without discrimination based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. We stand by this commitment to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.