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Software Engineer - Leadership Development Program
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Software Engineer - Leadership Development Program

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

As a Software Engineer at Apex Fintech Solutions, you are free to explore unique solutions and try fresh ideas that may benefit our financial services and trading businesses, and our investment companies. You’ll collaborate with some of tech’s sharpest minds to solve for the firm’s ever-changing but exciting challenges. Working in tech at AFS means that you’ll always be presented with a variety of new possibilities as you continue to enhance your skills.

Apex 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), and our team is responsible for transforming our products into the next generation clearing platform that will lead our industry for years to come. 

You’ll be responsible for:

  • Working with a variety of languages/frameworks, such as Java, Go, Python and technologies such as RDBMS, Kubernetes, and Docker, Google Cloud Platform
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
  • 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 (DataDog and PagerDuty)
  • Writing high-quality, well-tested code. Maintaining high code-quality standards across your team via code reviews
  • Attending training to learn about options trading and financial markets

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
  • 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
  • Two-week long orientation and initial training program with SIE learning sessions, leadership introductions, and core competency assessments
  • Encourage innovation by questioning business processes throughout the company
  • Mentorship from senior engineers and engineering managers
  • Quarterly 2-day hackathons and bi-weekly Tech Connects
  • An environment committed to using the right tool to get the job done
  • Work that matters.

You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related discipline or relevant years experience
  • Experience of software development skills in a modern object-oriented programming language ideally Java / Go, or Python or C#, an RDBMS, and the ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
  • Effective communication skills
  • Previous knowledge in financial markets isn’t required, but interest is a plus
  • Adaptability: while you enjoy establishing process and standards, you understand the need to be flexible and enjoy trying new things

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