Staff Platform Architect

Apex Fintech Solutions•New York, NY

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is an incredible opportunity for a Staff Platform Architect to join Apex's Engineering team. As an Architect you will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to create a world class API and product experience. You will lead customer facing information architecture while driving company wide engineering initiatives. Where possible you will be a direct technical contributor that will shift between low level design and high level concepts. You will implement repeatable software delivery practices and processes so that we can readily deliver quality products at Apex. We're looking for someone who: Is experienced and introspective. You have extensive experience developing software products and services across a variety of tools, frameworks, and environments. You recognize your strengths and also know when to reach out for help Is passionate. You have a genuine passion for solving interesting technology problems with creative and simple solutions. Is pragmatic. You'd rather deliver a 40% solution in 2 weeks than an 80% solution in six Is collaborative. You're excited to work with fellow engineers, but also know how to partner across departments to get things done Desire to make an impact. You're looking to do amazing work. You're all about using technology to improve the customer experience and affect the company's bottom line, but also want to mentor and coach those within your team

Requirements

Proven track record of navigating the company and influencing and inspiring peers
Readiness to travel occasionally
Experience gathering and translating business and technical requirements
Strong sense of personal accountability
Experience in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud platform.
Deep expertise in Java (or other modern software languages like .NET or Go)
Experience with REST and microservices
Expertise in Agile and other software development methodologies and practices
BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
15+ years of software engineering experience
Domain knowledge in large scale API integrations
Domain knowledge in financial information architecture
Engineering process and methodology for large scale design, development, project execution and integration
Demonstrated leadership abilities in creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering success
Demonstrated ability to lead with integrity and remain calm during stressful situations while managing multiple demands and priorities
Demonstrated technical leadership to provide technical guidance on technology issues, designs, and ideas.

Nice To Haves

Financial services background preferred

Responsibilities

Understand Apex’ broad product portfolio and lead design of a resilient, customer focused client-facing API and integration experience.
Develop and design application delivery rails that enable Apex’s products and services to be delivered to the market in a standardized way.
Ensure that our API based solutions deliver value throughout the customer journey.
Oversee architectural design groups that develop “best in class” engineering practices for our services by ensuring that service and components are well defined, modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.
Lead an architecture council to drive technical decisions and ensure that services fit within our overall architecture vision.
Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures
Grow and mentor developers to develop best-practices and collectively collaborate across teams to build and integrate innovative products.
Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions.
Build collaborative and productive relationships with development, product and program managers along with broader business stakeholders to define Apex’ developer experience strategy and help accomplish key business objectives.
Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives.
Have strong understanding of business and technical problems that teams are solving, able to work with stakeholders and teams to prioritize, clarify, and organize team’s work based on this knowledge.
Identify risks, perform risk analysis, effectively manage risks; proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, escalating and identifying alternate options as appropriate; Follow defined Risk Management processes.
Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

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

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