Software Engineer II

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, 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

ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Apex Fintech Solutions Trade Processing team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer II 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 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 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 clearing platform 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) 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
• 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

W hat 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 will need to succeed:

• BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
• 2-4+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles
• 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 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 Apex, 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.
Apex is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, disability, age, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law.