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Software Engineer II, Core Services
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Software Engineer II, Core Services

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 Software Engineer 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.
 
The Apex Clearing Core Services team works closely with the Architecture team to build backbone services that provide the foundation of the Apex platform. The Core Services team leads the charge in product innovation, adoption of modern development technologies, and engineering best practices. We are in need of software engineers to design and implement the future of our GCP cloud-native, event-driven (Apache Kafka) microservice architecture.
 
What you will do:
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain diverse foundational services and SDKs used by product development teams.
  • 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). Write high-quality, well-tested code. Maintain 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-driven approach to software development.
  • End-to-end ownership of what you deploy. From documentation to service-level targets, your team drives the health of your products.
  • To contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning. This includes access to mentors, generous policies on attending industry conferences, education and learning materials reimbursement, as well as regular Lunch and Learn events.
  • An environment committed to using the right tool to get the job done.
  • Work that matters with supportive and engaged colleagues.
The skills you'll need to succeed:
  • 3-5+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles.
  • Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field. 
  • Proven experience in at least one modern language (Java, Go, etc.).
  • Ability to quickly learn new languages, tools, and frameworks
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Bonus Points:
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker.
  • Experience with Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Google Pub/Sub.
  • Financial services background.

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