Software Engineering Intern - Margins

Apex Fintech Solutions•Chicago, IL

13d•$50•Hybrid

About The Position

Apex Fintech Solutions is looking for a Software Engineering Intern 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. This role offers a hands-on opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of the Margins system, a critical part of the Apex Ascend platform. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers to add new features and enhance support for this system while gaining valuable real-world experience with modern technologies and building scalable and reliable software solutions. You will assist in developing secure and reliable gRPC and REST APIs for system integrations and learn to work with relational databases like PostgreSQL for efficient data storage and querying. The ideal candidate should have the ability to write code in Java/Python or demonstrate a strong willingness to learn. Have you been waiting on the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the fintech industry? Now's your chance.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a BA, BS, MS, PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
Experience with SQL & Java
0 - 2+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles.
Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Financial services background is a plus.
Have a real passion for software engineering, as demonstrated by previous internships, work experience, projects, or publications
Familiarity with application of common design patterns
Interested in backed or full stack software development
Either previous knowledge in financial markets or a strong interest in learning

Responsibilities

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.