Senior Software Engineer Options Trading

Apex Fintech Solutions
US - New York - New York
October 30, 2024

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

The Apex Trade Execution team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for writing great code, the desire to push their skills to the next level, and who is up to the challenge to think at the scale of Apex's Clearing's high-volume, high-availability trade clearing suite. We work with some of the industry's hottest next-generation technologies, and you'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your engineering limits.

Apex Trade Execution engineering teams are charged with building the services our clients love and are at the heart of our future product innovations. We are reimagining our technology and application stack from the ground up, and our team is responsible for building the next generation trading APIs that will lead our industry for years to come. We are seeking smart developers to build out our cloud-native (GCP), event-driven (Apache Kafka, PubSub) Microservices framework.

Duties/Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, peer-review, and continuously tune high-performance, high-throughput software.
Learn from and apply design techniques and coding standards coached by our Senior Engineers. Collaborate with other members of the team to learn, develop, and deliver designs and coding standards to meet the growing needs of the platform
Build resilient, self-scaling, self-healing services that allow you to sleep through the night.
Support the production systems that you design. This includes building, deploying (CI/CD), and monitoring (DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty).
Write commercial grade, well-tested code, and maintain high code-quality standards across your team through code reviews and other best practices.

Education and/or Experience

BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field (or equivalent experience)
5+ years of prior work experience as a software developer or similar job roles.
Previous experience in equity and option trading a strong plus.
Experience with Google Cloud Platform is a strong plus.
Experience with Kubernetes, Google CloudRun and/or Docker is a plus.
Experience with Apache Kafka or Google Pub/Sub is a plus.
Experience hiring, mentoring, and coaching other engineers is a plus.
Financial services (capital markets, clearing or accounting systems) background is a plus.

Required Skills/Abilities

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong understanding of high load, low latency architecture object-oriented design, algorithm, and data structures.
Expertise in at least one modern programming language (Java, Golang, Python, etc.).
Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
Ability to visualize and propose system design, document the design and implement it.
Adaptability: while you enjoy establishing processes and standards, you understand the need to be flexible and enjoy trying new things.

Work Environment

This job operates in an office environment

• engineering #mid-senior #full-time #LI-SD1 #APEX

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.

Salary Range
$135,300-$169,125

The annual base salary range for this position is noted above. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and office location.

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.

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Senior Software Engineer Options Trading

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