Staff Software Engineer, Financial Profile Team

at  Edelman Financial Engines

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

At Edelman Financial Engines (EFE), we believe everyone deserves to move their financial life forward!
We know that assets have the power to fund goals. Those numbers represent individual lifetimes filled with hard work and dreams for our clients and generations to follow. Our clients trust us to guide them forward with empathy, integrity and invention. We uphold that same standard of respect and commitment for clients and colleagues alike.
Founded on the idea that financial education is a fundamental right for everyone, 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.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Financial Profile team, you’ll play a lead role in defining, designing, and building high quality server-side services and applications. This team is responsible for seamlessly integrating external third-party investors’ financial data and providing services to enable internal product groups to develop UX/UI applications.
In addition to an earnest desire to help people, the ideal candidate will complement the team’s existing talents. For this role, we need someone with confirmed enterprise software development skills to re-define, re-think and evolve our data integration platform. If you are a problem solver with strong technical and communication skills, this may be the career opportunity for you!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent communication skills. It is essential that the individual is pro-active in communicating clearly both verbally and in writing.
• 7+ years of software design and development experience.
• Expertise and experience with ReSTful API design and development using Java and Spring framework.
• Proficiency with SQL and databases including MSSQL server, and NoSQL DBs such as DynamoDB.
• A huge plus would be experience with building AWS-based microservices, using AWS technology stack such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation and more.
• Another huge plus is experience in with extracting microservices out of a Monolith and Domain Driven Design techniques.
• You must be a great teammate: You help your peers accomplish shared goals and you care about learning, growing, helping others do the same.
• Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.

• Contributing to definition, technical design, development and maintenance of key components and features of our product using Java (Spring, Hibernate), and AWS cloud technologies.
• Analyzing current solution architecture and design and proposing solutions that increase business value, optimize performance, and improve quality.
• Participating in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and technology initiatives.
• Actively collaborating with the other engineers on the squad through code reviews, pair programming, interactive design sessions and team retrospectives.
• Reviewing code developed by other developers and provide feedback (e.g., style guidelines, code efficiency, maintainability, and testability)
• Writing unit, component and E2E test to comply with code coverage measures.