Senior Engineer, Software Developer; Req

Name of

Employer:

LPL Financial LLC

Position Title:

Senior Engineer, Software Developer (Req# 000194)

Requisition : 000194

Hours:

40 hours per week Salary Range: $191,693- $201,693 per year

Location:

4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, CA, 92121

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade backend software applications and distributed systems using modern programming frameworks and cloud technologies.
• Lead the design, development, test, and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable backend solutions based on business requirements and strategic technology direction.
• Build, enhance, and maintain microservices, REST APIs, and modular backend components using best practices in object-oriented programming, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and cloud-native design.
• Develop distributed, event-driven, and message-based systems using .NET, C#, asynchronous programming, and integration patterns for data-intensive applications.
• Utilize messaging platforms to integrate multiple enterprise applications and services, ensuring reliable communication and efficient data processing across systems.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior engineers, while ensuring compliance with SDLC and release management processes.
• Collaborate with product owners, QA teams, Dev Ops, and infrastructure engineering to gather requirements, design system enhancements, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to application logic, performance, scalability, reliability, or system integration, including root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Perform analysis of existing systems to identify opportunities for optimization, modernization, and automation; prepare architectural documentation and contribute to long-term technology roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment workflows, infrastructure templates, and cloud provisioning scripts to support reliable software delivery.

• MINIMUM Education Requirement:
  Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation.
• ALTERNATIVELY:
  Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation.
• DE designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise software applications and distributed backend systems.
• DE developing microservices and service-oriented architectures using .NET, C#, REST APIs, and modern architectural design patterns.
• DE building event-driven and message-based applications using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar enterprise messaging technologies.
• DE architecting and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS, using services such as EC2, S3, EKS, ECR, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Watch, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, and Load Balancers.
• DE developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) provisioning scripts using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or equivalent technologies.
• DE implementing source control and release workflows using Git-based tools, including branch strategy, conflict resolution, code reviews, and production release support.
• DE designing and managing containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.
• DE performing unit testing using xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest, and analyzing relational database queries using SQL in SQL Server or…