Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join our amazing Engineering team as part of the Core Backend team, developing our next-generation, horizontally scalable recordkeeping platform for retirement services.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
• Experience building large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures
• Experience scaling database platforms (NoSQL, SQL)
• Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability
• Ability to quickly grasp the workings of accounting and 401k domains
• Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback, and grow - from our internal legacy and futuristic, technical designs to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers
• Completed formal training in computer science-related discipline (Bachelor or Masters preferred)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the system fast and reliable
• Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability and reliability
• Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
• Delight internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release

Benefits

• A great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees
• Top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and parental leave policies
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• Candidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt
• Monthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend