About the job 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.