Senior Software Engineer; Trade Order Management

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. As a global organization, we have offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila.

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

Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with specialized experience in trading to join our Order Management team in New York City. In this role, you will leverage your deep domain knowledge and engineering expertise to pioneer our new trading platform.

As a key contributor, you’ll engage in the design and implementation of complex trading APIs and contribute to the evolution of our high-performance trading systems. Your contributions will be crucial as we deploy cutting‑edge, cloud‑native technologies within a highly innovative, event‑driven architecture. This is a stellar opportunity for someone passionate about pushing the boundaries of financial technology and trading.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, peer‑review, and continuously tune high‑performance, high‑throughput software.
• Collaborate with other members of the team to share, learn, develop, and deliver designs and coding standards to meet the growing needs of the platform.
• Build resilient, self‑scaling, self‑healing services that deliver the highest level of reliability.
• Support the production systems that you design. This includes building, deploying (CI/CD), and monitoring (Data Dog, Grafana, Prometheus, Pager Duty).
• Write commercial grade, well‑tested code, and maintain high code‑quality standards across your team through code reviews and other best practices.
• Implement instrumentation to maintain observability to proactively visualize opportunities for improvement.

• BA, BS, MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of prior work experience as a Senior Software Developer.
• Previous experience in the trading domain is required.
• Financial services (capital markets, clearing or order management systems) background is required.
• Experience with trading technology is required.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform is nice to have.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run 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.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of high load, low latency architecture, object‑oriented design, algorithm, and data structures.
• Expertise in Java and/or GO is required (Python is also nice to have).
• Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
• Ability to visualize and propose system design, document the design and implement it.
• Adaptability: while you enjoy establishing processes and standards, you understand the need to be flexible and enjoy trying new things.

• This job operates in a hybrid work environment where our team members go into the office 3 days per week and have 2 remote days per week.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, responsibilities or knowledge required or expected of the employee…