Sr Software Engineer - Options Trading

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 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.
What you will do:

• 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.

What you can expect:

• A highly collaborative environment where everyone is focused on outcomes that build momentum for Apex and delights our customers.
• A culture that values a test-centric approach to software development where thorough test coverage is the expectation.
• 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.
• Work with and gain cutting-edge experience using cloud-based and other modern technologies and methods such as Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform (infrastructure-as-code), Golang, and gRPC-based services.
• 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.
• Bi-annual 3-day hackathons/tech-days.
• An environment committed to using the right tool to get the job done.
• Work that matters.

The skills you'll need to succeed:

• 5+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles.
• Previous experience in equity and option trading a strong plus.
• BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field.
• Understanding of high load, low latency architecture
• Proven experience in at least one modern language (Java, Golang, Python, etc.).
• Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 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.

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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.