Full Stack Engineer

We are currently sourcing for a Full Stack Engineer to work in Westlake, TX and Durham, NC!

Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building best-in-class API capabilities and web applications that deliver exceptional experiences in financial planning, investing, and retirement? Our Cash, Technology, and Platform team is looking for solution-oriented engineers with a passion for developing easy-to-use, customer-focused applications and capabilities that power modern web and mobile experience platforms.

The Purpose of Your Role

The team builds applications that support a large-scale digital presence. You will help design and develop reusable APIs and web components focused on enhancing customer experience, while optimizing quality and deployment practices. You will contribute across the entire development lifecycle—from concept to deployment—as part of an agile, cross-functional team.

You will also have the opportunity to share your technical knowledge to strengthen the engineering community while continuing to learn new technologies and platforms. We are looking for software engineers who enjoy collaboration and are passionate about delivering high-quality software through iterative development practices.

The Expertise we're Looking For

• You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.
• Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us tackle real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You'll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.
• Are a self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask "Why” and "What if”?
• Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks
• Comply with cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles
• Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.
• Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone's job.
• Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.
• Have strong communication skills and technical expertise in driving and participating in important discussions.

The Skills You Bring

• 6+ years of hands?on experience in backend software development.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable Service?Oriented and Microservices Architectures, including RESTful APIs, JSON-based services, and modern application servers.
• Proficient in backend programming languages, especially Java and Python. JavaScript experience for backend frameworks (e.g., Node.js) is a plus.
• Deep expertise in API development, including API contract definition, versioning, isolation strategies, and service decomposition.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance optimization, and building highly scalable backend platforms using open?source technologies.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms, particularly AWS or Azure, including deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure services.
• Proficient in API documentation frameworks such as OpenAPI / Swagger.
• Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, uDeploy, NPM, and automated build/deployment processes.
• Solid knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with backend testing frameworks, such as JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test, or equivalent backend testing tools.
• Familiarity with backend frameworks, including Spring Boot, ExpressJS (for Node.js), or similar server-side technologies.
• Proficient in working with both relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially for working with global cross?functional teams.
• Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and work towards to strong engineering culture and best practices.