Senior Software Engineer

At Apex Fintech Solutions, we're transforming the future of digital wealth management by seamlessly connecting financial platforms and simplifying access to financial markets for millions.

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will be working alongside experienced software engineers, product managers, and data engineers to design, build, deploy, and maintain services and systems at the core of our cloud native Data Platform and APIs. We build and own services spanning across, APIs & data access, data processing services, tooling & infrastructure for storage & access, machine learning & predictive APIs, and engineering for data analytics. This role offers an opportunity to build cloud services across many of these domains, or specialize as an SME as you establish yourself within Apex. The ideal candidate is one that integrates well within a team and strives for collaborative, modern cloud engineering and team practices, acting as a multiplier for the team day to day.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain microservice service architectures, pipelines, data stores, and other cloud systems for the Apex data layer and APIs.
• Collaborate and solve complex engineering problems, and solve them for scale with the autonomy to drive technical directions and decisions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, clients, and other stakeholders to understand client & business problems and requirements and work towards solutions.
• Create, and own scalable cloud services and pipelines for our various data-driven service domains.
• Manage, optimize, and improve existing cloud data platform solutions for performance, availability, scaling etc.
• Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable devSecOps practices.
• Work as a part of a productive development team that puts an emphasis on code quality, peer reviews, documentation and strong modern engineering practices.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent work experience
• Experience in software development in at least one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in cloud engineering, particularly around; microservices, scalability and best practices, build and implementation, data technologies and services.
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, modern IaC (e.g. Terraform), cloud service deployment and management, and modern CI/CD
• Experience working with modern database systems (e.g. Bigquery, Postgres, AlloyDb, Redis, etc)
• Strong background and proven experience developing, testing, and maintaining REST APIs.
• A problem-solving mindset, with the ability to think critically through challenging engineering scenarios.
• Experience in the financial industry preferred

Required Skills/Abilities

• Ability to interpret technical design documents to build solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels to varied stakeholders.
• Strong proficiency in relevant programming language(s) for building and deploying cloud (micro)services
• A desire to strive for modern collaborative engineering practices and standards, a DevSecOps mindset, and a desire to push good practice within your team and at a wider level to deliver value.
• Adaptability to learn new technologies/systems/languages as needed day to day.
• Understanding of event driven, real-time data pipelines, data replication, data streaming.

Work Environment:

• This job operates in a hybrid, office environment 2 days per week.