Apex Fintech Solutions - 2026 AFS Tech Internship Program, application via RippleMatch

RippleMatch Opportunities • Chicago, IL

6h • $0 - $50 • Hybrid

About The Position

Apex Fintech Solutions delivers speed, efficiency & flexibility through technology solutions to firms ranging from innovative start-ups to blue-chip brands who choose to grow with us. We embrace a culture of growth, experimentation, and creativity. Employees of Apex are asked to exercise their own responsibility and freedom, allowing each person to have a measurable impact on the business and provide plenty of opportunities for advancement and personal growth. Sound like something you would want to be a part of? We're hiring! Apex Fintech Solutions is looking for Software Engineering and Product Management Interns with unbounded potential for a development team on the front lines of Apex's high-volume, high-availability trade clearing suite. We partner with some of the industry's hottest next-generation stock trading products. You'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits. Apex engineering teams are charged with building the services our clients love and are at the heart of our future product innovations. Apex has begun its transformation from on-premise infrastructure to the Cloud (GCP & AWS), and our team is responsible for transforming our products into the next generation clearing platform that will lead our industry for years to come. We are in need of smart, developers to build out our cloud-native (GCP/AWS), event-driven (Apache Kafka), Microservices framework.. To be considered, you must be able to work 40 hours per week during our summer program in one of our office locations. This year's opportunities were available within the following groups: Product Management Intern What you will do: Support the product management team in the development and execution of product strategies and roadmaps. Assist in conducting market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive analysis. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, and marketing to define product requirements and specifications. Help in creating product documentation, such as user stories, feature specs, and product briefs. Participate in product meetings and contribute ideas for product enhancements and improvements. Assist in tracking and analyzing product performance metrics and user feedback. Aid in preparing presentations and reports for stakeholders and leadership. Software Engineering What you will do: Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software. Learn from and apply design techniques and coding standards coached by our Senior Engineers. Build resilient, self-scaling, self-healing services that allow you to sleep through the night. Support the production systems that you build. This includes build, deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty). Writing high-quality, well-tested code. Maintaining high code-quality standards across your team via code reviews.

Requirements

• Be currently enrolled in a full-time Bachelor's degree program; junior or senior standing preferred
• Excellent problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft 365
• Interest in Fintech
• To be considered, you must be able to work 40 hours per week during our summer program in one of our office locations.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant work experience or work experience in a professional environment (e.g. internships, summer positions, school jobs, etc)
• Strong analytical skills
• Desire to take ownership of projects and ideas
• Ability to work independently as well as in team environment
• Attention to detail and a high degree of initiative and adaptability

Responsibilities

• Support the product management team in the development and execution of product strategies and roadmaps.
• Assist in conducting market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, and marketing to define product requirements and specifications.
• Help in creating product documentation, such as user stories, feature specs, and product briefs.
• Participate in product meetings and contribute ideas for product enhancements and improvements.
• Assist in tracking and analyzing product performance metrics and user feedback.
• Aid in preparing presentations and reports for stakeholders and leadership.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Learn from and apply design techniques and coding standards coached by our Senior Engineers.
• Build resilient, self-scaling, self-healing services that allow you to sleep through the night.
• Support the production systems that you build. This includes build, deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty).
• Writing high-quality, well-tested code. Maintaining high code-quality standards across your team via code reviews.

Benefits

• healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
• competitive PTO
• 401k match
• parental leave
• HSA contribution match
• paid subscription to the Calm app
• generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
• hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees