About the position
The Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer that can excel in an Agile environment leading the way in the Cloud and Big Data analytics ecosystem. You will help build our real-time API platform, which powers mission-critical, high-throughput services across our ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Define and promote best practices for API design, versioning, patterns, and developer experience.
- Bring complex projects from concept to production, collaborating with multiple teams.
- Lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems to improve engineering quality.
- Lead the reliability, scalability, and performance of real-time APIs and associated platform services.
- Work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability, incident response, and system tuning.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and API design.
- Experience designing and operating real-time, low-latency API platforms at scale.
- Experience with protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets), caching, load balancing, and API security.
- Experience with web development frameworks such as Flask, Django or FastAPI.
- Experience with concurrent programming designs such as AsyncIO.
- Proficient in cloud computing with AWS and backend development using Python.
- Experience with unit and functional testing frameworks.
- Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka), and stream processing frameworks.
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices with hands-on experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
Nice-to-haves
- Preference for candidates based in or near Allen, TX, or Costa Mesa, CA, for occasional in-office collaboration; remote candidates will also be considered.
Benefits
- Great compensation package and bonus plan.
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K.
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office.
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays.
