Senior Engineer - Platform & DevEx
About The Position
AssetMark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors. We provide investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use in helping clients achieve wealth, independence, and purpose. The Opportunity We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and implementation of mission-critical platform systems, APIs, and foundational architecture. This senior role involves owning significant platform capabilities, driving architectural decisions, and establishing technical standards that enable our entire engineering organization. You'll work on transformational platform initiatives while mentoring other engineers and ensuring our technology foundation scales with business growth. We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in platform engineering, developer experience and productivity
- Advanced understanding of cloud-native development, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD processes
- Strong background in data architecture, enterprise integration patterns, and event-driven systems
- Experience with performance optimization, scalability engineering, and system reliability
- Understanding of enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to drive architectural decisions and influence technical direction
- Exposure to AI tooling to drive architecture and development practices
- Strong mentorship skills and experience leading complex technical initiatives
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
- 5-8 years of software engineering experience with significant platform engineering focus
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale platform systems
- Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers
- Experience in DevEx, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment practices
- Experience with regulated industries, preferably financial services
- Strong background in API governance, data architecture, and enterprise integration
Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture & Design: Design and implement mission-critical platform features and foundational systems
- Shape platform architecture through both written specifications and hands-on code implementation
- Build and maintain frameworks that make software development easier for application teams
- Drive AssetMark towards target platform architecture through strategic technical decisions
- Author technical design documents for complex platform capabilities
- Establish and enforce API design principles, versioning strategies, and governance models
- Developer Experience & Productivity Experience in developing processes to reduce friction by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in the development workflow that slow down engineers
- Experience in building and maintaining Self-Service platforms that enable teams to provision resources, deploy applications, and access tools without manual intervention (Terraform or similar tooling)
- Experience in managing local development environments that ensure developers have consistent, reliable local development environments that mirror testing and production
- Experience in optimizing CI/CD pipelines to provide rapid feedback on code changes (build times, test results, deployment status). Either AzureDevOps and/or Github Actions experience required.
- Experience in developer onboarding by creating streamlined onboarding processes that enable new engineers to be productive
- Expertise in implementing and tracking key DevEx & DevOps metrics (DORA, SPACE etc.)
- Expertise in Developer Tools & Toolchain Integration (code quality, security scanning, static analysis etc.)
- Technical Leadership & Standards: Improve platform development and DevEx practices and processes across multiple teams
- Teach other engineers effective platform development and code deployoment techniques
- Help establish platform community practices around secure coding, data privacy, design standards, testing and deployment
- Balance technical debt with platform evolution while maintaining enterprise reliability
- Coordinate platform work across multiple development teams and resolve complex technical dependencies
- Enterprise & Compliance: Ensure platform architecture meets stringent security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
- Design systems that support business growth and can scale to enterprise demands
- Work with data governance policies and master data management principles
- Support technology modernization initiatives and legacy system transformation
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture and security teams on strategic platform decisions
Benefits
- Flex Time or Paid Time Off and Sick Time Off
- 401K – 6% Employer Match
- Medical, Dental, Vision – HDHP or PPO
- HSA – Employer contribution (HDHP only)
- Volunteer Time Off
- Career Development / Recognition
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Hybrid Work Schedule
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
