Senior Software Architect

MX•Lehi, UT

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are driven by our moral imperative to advance mankind - and it all starts with our people, product and purpose. We always carry a deep sense of drive and passion with us. If you thrive in a challenging work environment, surrounded by incredible team members who will help you grow, MX is the right place for you. Come build with us and be part of an award-winning company that’s helping create meaningful and lasting change in the financial industry. The Mission MX is on a path to become the trusted default for intelligent money experiences, empowering the world to be financially strong. That requires us to continue to strengthen our industry leadership position in connectivity and data intelligence, and to become a one-stop-shop solution for our clients and their end-users. The Senior Software Architect will be a hands-on technology leader who is responsible for providing the architecture, design, and implementation for MX’s differentiated products and services, taking best practices that embody modern, cloud-based, purpose-built design patterns. This role will dramatically raise the standards for technical excellence for MX engineerings in building scalable, secure, and high quality products and services. Working closely with product and engineering managers, technical ICs, this role serves as a thoughtful multiplier across product engineering delivery teams to deliver strategic roadmap. This role is critical for delivering on MX’s strategic roadmap and differentiated products that strengthen MX’s competitive advantage.

Requirements

A skilled, enthusiastic technologist with strategic thinking and business acumen, leading through influence rather than authority.
15+ years of software development experience, with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree.
Fluency with Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, OLT/AP, event-driven architectures.
Expert hands-on knowledge in OAuth, Data Analytics, Risk and Fraud platforms, as well as cloud (AWS, GCP).
Expert hands-on knowledge in defining service SLOs using customer experiences as a north star.
Deep understanding of instrumentation at the system level to achieve SLO attainments, with cost efficiency.
Expert hands-on knowledge building services with agility (cycle time) and utilizing CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployability, as well as operability/observability.
Exposure to building and operating software in a heavily regulated industry.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including diagramming and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

Deep technical analysis on strategic product initiatives, lay out foundational architecture and design in MX’s eco-systems.
Drive technical implementation of high-quality MVPs.
Identify opportunities for performance improvement on critical products and services and implement solutions to close the gaps.
Analyze and implement improvements of end-to-end data ingest, analytics, and recommend how AI can be leveraged to provide efficiency and competitive advantage.
Drive architecture and design reviews, multiply knowledge and principles to the technical staff.
Be an active member of architecture discussions that require rethinking or changing technology approaches, such as cloud strategy.