Senior & Staff Software Engineer - LA, NY & SF

Senior & Staff level Back End Engineer, Clearing & Trading - at a Fast-Growing Fintech Company

Location: Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX

About the Company

The company is a rapidly expanding fintech firm revolutionizing the financial advice industry. The mission is to enhance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of financial advice for everyone. The firm is a modern custodian exclusively serving registered investment advisors (RIAs). By disrupting legacy custodians and transforming the $100T RIA market, the company is seeking exceptional individuals who share its core values of kindness, brilliance, and grit, and are passionate about making a meaningful impact.

**About the Position**

The company is looking for a motivated and dynamic leader to join the Trading and/or Clearing team. This team's mission is to streamline operations and enhance the trading experience for advisors on the platform.

**Responsibilities**

- Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows.

- Focus on building and scaling systems.

- Deliver RESTful APIs with microservices.

- Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling, and loading the data into a transactional and warehouse system.

- Solve complex problems within an event-based environment.

- Work on complex calculations in a consistent and accurate manner.

**Qualifications**

- Over 5 years of experience building scalable RESTful back-end services using Java and the Spring Boot framework.

- Experience in developing trading applications.

- Implemented microservices architecture for backend services to deliver highly distributed and resilient architecture.

- Strong understanding of design patterns and implementation of event-driven architecture.

- Commitment to automated testing, including unit and integration tests.

- Experience with Swagger for API documentation and SonarQube for code quality.

- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, and Redis.

- Strong understanding of caching technologies like CDN, Redis, and Memcache.

- Working knowledge of Docker/container technologies such as Kubernetes or ECS.

**Bonus Points**

- Experience building cloud infrastructure with Terraform on AWS.

- Familiarity with GitLab and building pipelines.

- Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization principles.

- Familiarity with the ELK stack for consistent logging, monitoring, and alerting.

- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

- Strong domain knowledge of trading or brokerage platforms and financial services.

**Salary Range**

Los Angeles, CA: $158,000 - $203,000 
SF & NY - up to $249,000

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary and stock options.

- Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.

- Generous paid parental leave.

- 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions.

- Flexible paid time off.