At Edelman Financial Engines, we believe everyone deserves to move their financial life forward.
Founded on the idea that financial education is a fundamental right for everyone—not just the wealthy, Edelman Financial Engines continues to grow and challenge the status quo. We’re moving forward, together. If our purpose-driven commitment inspires you, we invite you to consider joining our team.
Our product and technology organization builds solutions that provide personalized financial planning and advice for over 1.3 million clients, accounting for over $290B in assets under management and used daily by our team of 340+ planners across the United States. Our teams are empowered to make decisions that drive business value without red-tape and push the bounds of financial and technical innovation. We follow an agile process, moving quickly, solving difficult problems in new ways, and empowering everyone to have a voice in the direction of our products.
Because we are passionate about building quality software, we invest heavily in automated testing, take code reviews seriously and prioritize refactoring. We have a steadfast focus on the improvement of the skills of the team members and provide opportunities to use new technologies and work in different areas of our codebase.
We are looking for a senior software-level backend engineer to join our team and help us build software that powers our financial products and services, delights our customers and empowers our financial planning teams to do their best work. We develop microservices in a hexagonal architecture implemented as Java-based AWS lambda functions and utilize a number of other cloud services.
As a senior member of the engineering team, you will be working on design, development and observability of the software developed by your team. We have high standards for code quality, all forms of testing, and intelligent architecture. The ideal candidate should share our passion for building great software that helps to move peoples’ financial lives forward.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 3+ years software development experience including significant experience in Java
• Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases
• Experience working in the AWS cloud is preferred
• Experience working in an agile environment such as SCRUM or Kanban
• Comfort working with microservices based architectures is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  Edelman Financial Engines takes a market-based approach to pay. The expected base salary range for this role nationally is $100,000 - $130,000. However, final base pay will be carefully determined based on several factors, including responsibilities, job-related skills, relevant experience, geographic location, and market conditions. Additionally, this role may be eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, health, dental and other wellness plans, and 401(k) contributions.
  Your recruiter can share more about the specific benefits eligible for this role during the hiring process.

• Hands-on development of microservices in Java using AWS lambda functions and other cloud services by adhering to engineering best practices and standards
• Design and develop REST based APIs for use by engineering teams across the organization
• Design and develop infrastructure as code through lambda functions, their associated data stores and any required connected services using AWS CloudFormation
• Collaborate with product and other engineering & infrastructure teams independently as needed during development, testing, code review and deployment stages of the software
• Contribute to the effectiveness of your squad through code reviews, pair programming, interactive design sessions and team retrospectives
• Interviewing and recruiting other engineers as our team grows