Software Engineer II

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Austin, TX

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

This is an incredible opportunity for a Software Engineer II who wants to work closely with software development and business teams to build software user interfaces for a variety of financial solutions. This work will involve the definition, creation, and utilization of reusable components that can be used internally or white-labeled for external use. We are looking for experienced, passionate, pragmatic, and collaborative people that want to make a significant impact on how Apex Clearing builds and designs software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build sweet UIs - and the frameworks that drive them - on top of APIs designed in collaboration with domain product teams
• Think through hard problems and solve them at all layers of the enterprise
• Write self-documenting and well-tested code with an emphasis on sustainable development practices
• Work as part of a small, productive development team that cares most about delivering value to the business while emphasizing code quality, peer reviews, and strong engineering practices

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other demanding engineering degree (or equivalent work experience)
• 2 or more years of professional experience working as a part of a multi-person development team that utilizes automated testing, CI pipelines, peer reviews, ideally in an Agile Environment
• A strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of front-end technologies, especially TypeScript, React, and CSS
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Passion for UX: you understand in your bones that page speed, asset size, and critical render path all affect your users
• Adaptability: while you enjoy establishing processes and standards, you understand the need to be flexible and enjoy trying new things
• Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies quickly, as required
• Practice of writing technical documentation, whether ADRs, design docs, or just sequence diagrams

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits (medical, dental, and vision, EAP)
• Competitive PTO
• 401k match
• Parental leave
• HSA contribution match
• Paid subscription to the Calm app
• Generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits