Senior Software Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain DIVER, BDSQL, METASTOR & FASTOLA
• Collaborate 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
• Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project
• Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project
• 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
• Commits to resolving technical challenges and risks
• Helps team identify, prioritize, and deliver on clear short, mid and long-term goals aligned to the business
• Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward
• 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
• Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward
• Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity

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 DevOps and CI\CD technologies
• Experience test automation and unit testing
• Experience software security

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Core TECH Skills: AWS Core services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, API Gateway
• QuickSight for dashboards and data visualization
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting
• IAM, Security services, VPC networking
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Programming & Development: Python, Node.js, Go, or similar
• Java Frontend applications (React, Angular, Vue.js)
• RESTful API design and microservices architecture
• CI/CD pipelines (GitLab exposure preferred)
• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora)

Benefits

For work that is performed in CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations.

Pay

To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Schedule

Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements. Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.