Software Engineer II

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

At Apex Clearing, we're all about building the next-generation trade clearing platform that enables the hottest stock trading apps the capabilities they need to introduce a new generation to investing. We need passionate, determined, courageous, and principled software engineers like you to help us achieve this mission. If what you need next in your career is an opportunity to be empowered to make your own decisions, learn from your mistakes and execute what works, Apex Clearing is likely the place for you.

The Opportunity:

The Apex Clearing product development team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for writing great code and the dedication to drive their skills to the next level for a development team on the front lines of Apex Clearing's high-volume, high-availability trade clearing suite. 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 Clearing product 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 is responsible for transforming our products into the next generation clearing platform that will lead our industry for years to come. We are in need of smart, developers to build out our cloud-native (GCP/AWS), event-driven (Apache Kafka), Microservices framework.

Why It Matters:

• The initiative referenced below plays a key part in the ability of AFS to “reinvent” itself in terms of addressable customer base and revenue model.  This is recognized up to the CEO level.

What you will do:

• As part of a small feature team, you will be tasked with development of a pluggable adapter architecture making it possible for a system previously hardcoded to use specific outside service interfaces to generalize to any outside services that implement the adaptor interface.
• You will also help develop UI and middle tier components which allow previously hardcoded risk analysis components which assumed a fixed role hierarchy to be fully user definable and configurable, both in their workflow assignment behavior and in their analysis rules.
• 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 objectives, your team is ultimately responsible for the health of your products.
• Contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning. Access to mentors, generous policies regarding attending industry conferences and book reimbursement, regular lunch and learns.
• Quarterly 2-day hackathons.
• 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 is a strong plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker is a plus.
• Experience with Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Google Pub/Sub is a plus.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and coaching other engineers is a plus.
• Financial services background is a plus.

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​Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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.