Full-stack Engineer 5 (Finance Tech)

Description

The team sits in the company's finance technology group, which is rebuilding the finance engine to be more trustworthy, adaptable and insight-driven.

The group covers four areas: Forecasting and Resiliency for decision support, Treasury and Trade for cash and investment lifecycles, Accounting and Reporting for general ledger accuracy and regulatory obligations, and Data and Core, which handles orchestration, sourcing and pipelines for critical financial data products.

The work supports the company's finance organization and the wider enterprise in running efficiently, with high-fidelity tracking and reporting behind every business process.

You will build full-stack software in an iterative, collaborative setting, using open source frameworks and newer technologies to drive a major transformation of the company's finance systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a set of varied technology projects and a team of developers who build distributed microservices and full-stack systems that help the company meet regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical leadership across several teams, shaping system architecture and long-term technology direction.
• Drive design and delivery of large-scale, distributed or cloud-native systems that must meet high standards of reliability and performance.
• Work with architects and product leaders to set platform roadmaps and shared services strategy.
• Work with digital product managers to deliver resilient cloud-based solutions that give millions of Americans better tools for financial empowerment.
• Stay current on technology trends, test and learn new tools, take part in internal and external technology communities, and mentor engineers.
• Build with Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, open source relational and NoSQL databases, Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration, and a range of AWS services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related quantitative field such as statistics, economics, operations research, analytics, mathematics or engineering.
• At least 6 years of software engineering experience. Internships do not count.
• At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
• Preferred: Master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Preferred: 9+ years coding in more than two of Java, Scala, Python, Go or Node.js.
• Preferred: 5+ years contributing to open source frameworks.
• Preferred: 5+ years building synchronous and asynchronous APIs.
• Preferred: 4+ years working with databases and database management systems.
• Preferred: 4+ years with AWS, GCP, Azure, or cloud-based productivity tools or virtualization technologies.
• Preferred: 4+ years using Git-based version control such as Git, GitHub or Bitbucket.
• Preferred: 4+ years troubleshooting technical issues in cloud environments.
• Preferred: 1+ year leading architecture design reviews and shaping enterprise-wide technical standards and methods.
• Preferred: 1+ year setting and enforcing coding standards and design patterns across teams.
• Preferred: experience shaping technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level.
• Preferred: experience using modern AI-based coding tools and IDE copilots.
• Preferred: experience with interactive AI tools that go beyond basic code completion to speed up your work.

Conditions

The company will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this role.

Full-time annual salary ranges by location: Cambridge, MA and McLean, VA are $229,900 - $262,400 for Full-stack Engineer 5; Richmond, VA is $209,000 - $238,500 for Full-stack Engineer 5. These figures apply only to candidates hired to work in those locations and reflect the amount the company is willing to pay at the time of posting. Part-time pay is prorated by agreed hours. Candidates hired elsewhere get that location's range, and the exact salary appears in the offer letter.

Applications will be accepted for at least 5 business days.

Agencies should not submit candidates.

The company is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veteran status, and considers applicants with criminal histories in line with applicable law. It is a drug-free workplace.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive pay, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives, and may be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
• Comprehensive, competitive health, financial and other benefits. Eligibility depends on full- or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt classification, and management level.