Alpharetta - Senior Platform Engineer
Overview:
About the Company:
StoneX Group (NASDAQ: SNEX) was founded in 1924 specializing in hedging futures and commodity contracts. A century later, we have grown into an institutional-grade financial services franchise, offering advanced digital platforms, end-to-end clearing and execution services, and deep expertise to our clients worldwide.We prioritize understanding your unique goals – and offer best-in-class digital platforms, market guidance and support to execute your strategy. Our leadership team goes far beyond corporate governance. With a "boots on the ground" mentality and a relentless focus on innovation, our executives work together with our employees worldwide to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
StoneX Enterprise Platform Engineering is on a mission to enable and accelerate value delivery through a continuously improving developer experience. We strive to reduce engineers cognitive load by building a single pane of glass experience for a self-service model.Utilize modern tooling to take advantage of Lean IT, scale, and speed to market. While enabling cost-effective and productive use of resources and services. These efforts should mitigate risk of security, regulatory, and functional issues in products and services.
Job Posting
StoneX Enterprise Platform Engineering is looking for an Engineer to develop the development, and implementation of software for the platform. This focuses on developer experience, operational excellence, automation, data, and quality assurance.You will be on a team of full stack platform engineers whose goal will be to deliver high-quality software that aligns and speeds up the software engineering teams. You will execute our technology strategy and work on lean agile projects, ensuring projects are completed up to quality standards and on time.
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for the technical excellence and approach taken by less experienced team members, including providing guidance and oversight, planning and estimation, analyzing software performance and configuration systems, peer code reviews and documentation, and the deployment and integration of new software in alignment with technology standards.You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SME), stakeholders, and software engineering teams to estimate, execute, develop, and deploy solutions, continuously iterating to ensure that new features are adding value, enabling, and empowering our software engineering teams.
You are expected to conduct design and code reviews within the engineering team and vetting designs across your team with business initiatives. You are expected to get into the details of our solutions, lead implementation, and take ownership of the team’s output.
Come help us develop the next-generation enterprise platform! The ideal candidate is passionate about growing their skills and building complex distributed systems.
Primary Responsibilities- Large focus on developer experience and operational excellence
- Managing, working, and implementing third party technology vendors
- Lead the software development life cycle (SDLC) for the team including estimating, analysis, code design, development, testing, debugging, and maintenance
- Implement engineering standards, best practices, and quality assurance procedures
- Work closely with Core IT and software engineering teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical stories and execute on the roadmap
- Provide technical expertise and insight to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks
- Take responsibility for the quality of the applications as well as its alignment with technology goals
- Review and give constructive feedback on code
- Identify recurring issues and opportunities to improve engineering process
- Lead the execution of software solutions along with monitoring and supporting tools to ensure the team’s software works well in its operating environment
- Actively participate in strategic implementation regarding technology solutions and platform architecture
- Mentor and grow less experienced engineers
- Forward thinking on modern technology and automation to drive operational excellence and developer experience
Qualifications:
Knowledge and Skills Required- Able to work in a positive team culture with a strong sense of accountability and collaboration
- Able to balance incoming requirements with a focus on tactical execution
- Excellent coding skillset and peer code review
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent skills in running distributed Lean Agile Scrum Teams
- Deep understanding of modern cloud native technology with microservice/microsite design patterns
- Deep understanding of cloud providers (Azure/AWS)
- 4+ years platform (or software) engineering experience. cloud, sre, devops, or full-stack
- Experience with IaC, specifically Terraform
- Experience with Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
- Strong experience with object-oriented programming and design, including C# or any other programming languages
- Experience designing, implementing, and integrating with gRPC and/or RESTful APIs.
- Experience with QA Engineering, Data Engineering, and SRE/DevOps practices
- Experience with automated build and deployment tools
- Experience designing and writing robust software for highly scalable, low-latency, event driven, distributed platforms
- Experience supporting, modifying, and maintaining systems and code that others develop
- Experience with modern architectures and practices including microservices (Twelve-Factor is a plus), cloud computing, micro frontends, data warehouse, quality assurance engineering, and domain driven design
- Experience working with Docker and PowerShell
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Experience moving from datacenter to the cloud
- Experience working in a Lean Agile is a plus