Senior Software Engineer

This position is essential for supporting DIVER, BDSQL, METASTOR & FASTOLA. Under minimal supervision, the Senior Software Engineer assists in developing software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle.

Essential Job Functions:

Design, develop, and maintain DIVER, BDSQL, METASTOR & FASTOLACollaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions that meet business requirements

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers

Ensure code quality, performance optimization, and adherence to best practices

Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical strategy

Support production systems and troubleshoot complex technical issues

Works on broad problems of scope that require decision making and creativity

Receives general guidance but work is done independently and impacts team level goals

Defines technical solutions or operational processes to improve efficiency

Possesses a solid understanding and familiarity of systems and processes within job area Delivers many of the team’s goals on time and with a high standard of quality.

Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project. Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project.

Demonstrated understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures.

Strong experience with Bigdata Engineering/Operations Excellence:

Solves complex business problems, situations, processes based on existing theories of frameworks

Implements ways to simplify code and infrastructure. Prioritizes tasks that lead to lower system and infrastructure maintenance and migration costs with meaningful and measurable impact.

Examines problems from different perspectives and uses evaluation, judgement, and interpretation to select right course of action

Helps team identify, prioritize, and deliver on clear short, mid and long-term goals aligned to the business.

Accepts risk and uncertainty of business change as normal

Builds productive and collaborative working relationships with senior internal/external partners to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

Actively seeks perspectives and works to engage others when communicating

Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward  Demonstration of FINRA’s values.

Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Core TECH

Skills:

AWS Core services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, API Gateway Quick Sight  for dashboards and data visualization

Cloud

Watch, Cloud Trail, X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshootingIAM, Security services, VPC networking

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Cloud Formation)
Programming & Development Python, Node.js, Go, or similar

Java Frontend applications (React, Angular, Vue.js) RESTful API design and microservices architectureCI/CD pipelines (Git Lab exposure preferred)
Databases SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora)
EMRAthena

Education/Experience Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 5 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.

System design experience

Strong experience in object-oriented development

Strong experience with cloud technologies

Strong experience in data storage technologies

Experience in performance tuning and optimization

Experience in Dev Ops and CICD technologies

Experience test automation and unit testing

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