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
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have a big impact across Apex Fintech Solutions. The Client Developer experience team strives to build out platforms that makes our client integration a best-in-class experience. You’ll collaborate across multiple teams in this role and will partner primarily with our Belfast team to deliver customer features in a reliable, scalable, and secure product. You will be developing systems and automations for generating our SDK, drive our Open API standards and documentation as well as provide tools and services that will help customers evaluate and integrate to our environment quickly. This is a role for someone who flourishes in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. We routinely encounter and work in different languages, frameworks, systems, and full stack development projects. We value engineers who are proficient in multiple languages because we know they can quickly learn the next one that comes up.
Duties/Responsibilities
Define, develop, deploy, and operate software that delivers real value to Apex. We often work with micro-services, managed by Kubernetes.
Think through difficult problems and solve them at all layers of the enterprise.
Develop and maintain clean and consistent code for applications that are used internally and externally.
Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable development practices. Work as a part of small, productive development team that puts an emphasis on code quality, peer reviews and strong engineering practices.
Help grow the team. As one of our engineering team members, you will help recruit the right talent and establish a culture that developers love to work in. Your coaching and mentoring will prove important in growing the technology group.
Education and/or Experience
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
5+ years of professional experience working as a part of a multi-person development team, doing code reviews, testing, CI, trunk-based development, and/or other software practices.
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes is highly required.
Experience of any cloud-based provider (GCP/Azure/AWS) is highly desirable.
Experience with developing highly scalable and performant microservices.
Required Skills/Abilities
Demonstrated skills in software design and development.
Expertise in one or more of server-side programming languages including: Java, Go and Python.
Knowledge in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as React Js, Angular, jQuery and LESS.
Knowledge in one or more of DBMS technology, including SQLServer, Oracle, My SQL and MongoDB.
Ability to visualize and propose system design, document the design and implement it.
Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies quickly, as required.
Adaptability: while you enjoy establishing processes and standards, you understand the need to be flexible and enjoy trying new things.
An intuitive understanding of distributed architectures – experience with event-driven architectures is a big plus.
A DevSecOps mindset and a driving desire to deliver value through software.
Work Environment
This job operates in an office environment.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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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.