Senior Platform Engineer

Asset Mark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. Asset Mark’s mission is to enable financial advisors to make a profound difference in the lives of their clients. Over 10,000 advisors partner with Asset Mark for our investment offerings, innovative technology, advanced services, and expertise, which they use to delight their clients and grow their businesses.

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and implementation of mission-critical platform systems, APIs, and foundational architecture. This senior role involves owning significant platform capabilities, driving architectural decisions, and establishing technical standards that enable our entire engineering organization. You’ll work on transformational platform initiatives while mentoring other engineers and ensuring our technology foundation scales with business growth.

We can only consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.

• Design and implement mission-critical platform features and foundational systems
• Shape platform architecture through both written specifications and hands-on code implementation
• Build and maintain frameworks that make software development easier for application teams
• Drive Asset Mark towards target platform architecture through strategic technical decisions
• Author technical design documents for complex platform capabilities

• Create enterprise-scale solutions for data management, API governance, and service integration
• Implement large-scale refactoring initiatives to improve platform code quality and performance
• Build canonical source-of-truth data systems with robust governance and compliance capabilities
• Design and implement standardized patterns for service integration and cross-application workflows
• Establish and enforce API design principles, versioning strategies, and governance models

• Improve platform development practices and processes across multiple teams
• Teach other engineers effective platform development and code review techniques
• Help establish platform community practices around secure coding, data privacy, and design standards
• Balance technical debt with platform evolution while maintaining enterprise reliability
• Coordinate platform work across multiple development teams and resolve complex technical dependencies

• Ensure platform architecture meets stringent security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Design systems that support business growth and can scale to enterprise demands
• Work with data governance policies and master data management principles
• Support technology modernization initiatives and legacy system transformation
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and security teams on strategic platform decisions

• Deep expertise in platform engineering, API design, and service-oriented architectures
• Advanced understanding of cloud-native development, microservices, and distributed systems
• Strong background in data architecture, enterprise integration patterns, and event-driven systems
• Experience with performance optimization, scalability engineering, and system reliability
• Knowledge of Dev Ops, infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment practices
• Understanding of enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions and influence technical direction
• Strong mentorship skills and experience leading complex technical initiatives

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software…