Lead Full-Stack GenAI Platform Software Engineer

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.-posted 10 days ago

$111,400 - $242,600/Yr

Full-time • Mid Level

Hybrid • Rockville, MD

1,001-5,000 employees

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The Lead Full-Stack GenAI Platform Software Engineer works independently and owns development of robust, scalable software solutions across the full stack, including backend APIs, frontend interfaces, and cloud infrastructure. This role is central to architecting and implementing a cutting-edge generative AI regulatory chat assistant. The Lead Software Engineer improves overall product quality throughout the software development lifecycle, guides team members in best practices and technical leadership, and helps identify and mitigate architectural risks. This position reports directly to a Director or Senior Director.

Architectural Leadership & Design
Design and develop industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and strategic objectives
Lead the architecture of robust, scalable software solutions across the full stack, with strong focus on both backend services (FastAPI, Python) and frontend UI/UX (VueJS)
Assist with architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Bedrock, S3, Fargate, Aurora, Lambda, Step Functions, and emerging technologies
Collaborate on system architecture decisions and API design, ensuring secure, performant, and maintainable patterns
Demonstrate solid understanding of systems and processes within the job area and recommend improvements
Engineering Excellence & Quality
Design and implement high-performance, secure APIs using FastAPI and Python, establishing patterns that the team replicates
Guide the team in industry-leading practices for software development, code quality, system design, and test automation
Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis and data structures
Lead implementation of comprehensive test strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing methodologies; champion test-driven development (TDD) practices and automated testing frameworks
DevOps & Infrastructure
Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team
Help identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions that enable team autonomy
Take broad perspective to infrastructure problems and exercises independent judgment in selecting techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
Develop actionable insights from analyzing software development trends and software engineering best practices, communicating integration recommendations to management
Mentorship & Cultural Leadership
Mentor and guide less experienced team members in techniques, processes, and best practices for full-stack development, API design, and system architecture
Coach and train colleagues in how to write clean, maintainable, secure code and how to think systemically about software design
Champion collaborative resolution of defects and lead or co-lead internal process improvement initiatives
Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions in line with FINRA's values of collaboration, expertise, innovation, and responsibility
Product & Stakeholder Collaboration
Work on complex features requiring strong knowledge of generative AI industry practices
Partner within and across teams meet shared goals and priorities
Openly share progress and priorities with key stakeholders, communicating complex or technical information at the right level
Contribute proactively to the full product development lifecycle, from ideation through deployment
Generative AI & Emerging Technologies
Develop and refine the system's integration with large language models (LLMs) and generative AI technologies as they evolve
Design secure patterns for handling sensitive data within AI-powered workflows, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
Identify innovative applications of AI/LLM capabilities to improve system functionality and user experience
Stays informed of advances in LLM technologies, frameworks (e.g., Google ADK), and optimization approaches
Security & Compliance
Ensure all work products meet or exceed FINRA and team standards for secure development practices
Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls
Lead secure coding practices and threat modeling for API and infrastructure components
Ensure secure handling of personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive regulatory data throughout the development lifecycle

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
Strong system design experience
Strong experience in object-oriented development
Strong experience with cloud technologies
Strong experience in data storage technologies
Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
Strong experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies
Strong experience test automation and unit testing
Strong experience software security

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law.
As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.
FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year).
Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule).
Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment).
Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

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