Engineer 1 - Software Dev

Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity

At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. We offer cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact.

We are looking for an inspired innovative Developer with a background in the development of high throughput mission critical business applications, leveraging AWS technologies with .NET, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

A software developer's day involves attending a morning stand-up meeting, reviewing code, working on complex coding tasks, collaborating with team members, and participating in design and architecture discussions. They also attend meetings like sprint planning and retrospectives, monitor project progress, deploy code. By the end of the day, they review their progress, update documentation, and prepare for the next day's tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL's modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC, and release management processes.
• Develop positive relationships with business partners to understand their needs, manage expectations, deliver value-add solutions, and support translation of problem statements into system requirements.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvements and show success through KPIs.
• Use customer and business feedback to inform roadmaps and non-functional goals.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale and modernize existing trading platforms.
• Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, DevOps and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.
• Code and implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud.
• Measure success by say/do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms.
• Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance trading platforms/applications.
• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.

What Are We Looking For?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of C#, .NET Core, SQL Server, and NOSQL DBs (PostgreSQL preferable).
• Ability to create and consume RESTful services.
• Experience with Angular or a similar framework.
• Understanding of responsive design principles to ensure applications work on various devices.
• Knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
• Utilizing AI-powered tools like Copilot to generate code snippets, boilerplate code, and entire functions based on natural language descriptions.
• Leveraging AI to provide intelligent code completions, reducing the time spent on writing repetitive code.
• Using AI to identify potential bugs and suggest fixes in real-time as you write code.
• Code Refactoring: Employing AI to suggest and automate code refactoring, improving code quality and maintainability.
• Documentation Generation: Utilizing AI to generate documentation for code, including comments, function descriptions, and usage examples.
• CI/CD using GitHub repositories.
• Knowledge of data streaming technologies like Kafka and event driven architectures/patterns.
• 2+ years of related experience in capital markets.

Core Competencies

• Experience with owning and production support of mission critical applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing, and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools.
• Experience championing Agile methodologies for accomplishing delivery deadlines.

Preferences

• Experience working in trading domain with knowledge of backend trading and order execution workflows.
• Experience working with global delivery teams.

Pay Range

$31.26-$52.10/hour. Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for advisors and institutions, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader in the markets we serve, serving more than 23,000 financial advisors, including advisors at approximately 1,000 institutions and at approximately 580 registered investment advisor ("RIA") firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-mediated model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial professional.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.