What's the Role?  

The Planning Solutions team builds the suite of applications that take the company’s vision of being at the center of the financial lives of our clients forward. 

Within PS, the Compute team works at the intersection of technology and financial modeling. The team maintains and enhances the backend modelling platform that is used to build a comprehensive financial plan for our clients. This involves building the underlying infrastructure as well as implementing the financial planning business logic to create various simulations, solvers, scenarios that are required to predict the financial future of the client and provide them with recommendations to secure it. All the number crunching related to the financial plan is handled by this team.  

Currently, we are working to take our vision of developing the next generation of financial planning applications forward, along with an increased focus on making our current suite of applications more performant and feature rich.?We are looking for driven, financially minded?backend?engineers with a passion for building a new class of planning software.  

Our team is composed of engineers who thrive in a highly collaborative team environment designed to solve complex problems. We leverage functional programming paradigms heavily as they fit our problem space well. Our services are developed in Scala, Java, and Kotlin and are deployed on a highly distributed AWS stack. If you are passionate about solving complex financial problems efficiently, thinking outside the box and have a knack for functional programming, we want to hear from you. 

As an engineer in the Compute team, you will be an integral part of a team that develops business functionality for our clients. You will develop critical features that will be required to take our platform forward and provide value to the end users at the same time. You will contribute to technical discussions and decision-making processes on the team. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities  

• Implements holistic solutions utilizing working relationships across the enterprise. 

• Designs, organizes, and executes high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division. 

• Establishes, aggregates, and shares enterprise standards and best practices. 

• Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for their products. 

Qualifications  

• 1+ years of professional experience working in a complex financial domain. 

• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using Agile methods. 

• Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail. 

• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture. 

• Solid understanding of SDLC. 

• A track record of delivering high-quality software in the FinTech space and experience engineering complex systems. 

• Ability to work independently. 

• Experience working in an enterprise software environment (CI/CD, K8s, Docker, etc.) 

• Financial planning or modeling experience in an OO/FP programming language, particularly for the JVM 

• Bonus : Functional programming paradigms and design patterns (experience in Scala, Haskell, etc.), AWS experience, infrastructure-design/application architecture experience 

• BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study 

If any of this excites you, we want to hear from you!