Software Engineer

Life at MX

We are driven by our moral imperative to advance mankind - and it all starts with our people, product and purpose. We always carry a deep sense of drive and passion with us. If you thrive in a challenging work environment, surrounded by incredible team members who will help you grow, MX is the right place for you.

Come build with us and be part of an award-winning company that’s helping create meaningful and lasting change in the financial industry.

Our software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with their finances. Our products need to handle data at a massive scale. You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, search, platform, test, quality, big data, front end and back end. As a core participant of your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world to be financially strong

We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Job Duties

• Help us build and maintain a world-class technology system so we can achieve our mission of making the world financially strong.

• Write product or system development code owning assignments from design through testing and deployment.

• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select and implement design patterns and technologies.

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

• Accountable for clean code and excellent coding practices by participating in and conducting thoughtful code reviews.

• Actively participate in system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to meet and exceed customer needs in the simplest possible ways.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on infrastructure, network, or service operations and quality.

• Drive assignments to implement high quality systems and products.

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

• Demonstrate empathy for the client perspective and champion solutions that reduce (client) developer friction.

Basic Job Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

• 0-2 years experience with software development in one or more programming languages with data structures or algorithms preferred.

• 0-2 years experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products preferred.

• 1+ years experience with Ruby on Rails, with a solid understanding of object oriented programming principles preferred.

• Interest and aptitude in delivering presentations and communicating across a variety of media with internal and external audiences is highly desirable.

Advanced Job Requirements (not required)

• Masters Degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

• React, JavaScript/TypeScript and/or general frontend experience is a plus.

Compensation

The expected on-target earnings (OTE), which is comprised of a base salary and other forms of cash compensation, such as bonus or commissions is currently $83,000 to $99,500. This pay range is just one component of MX's total rewards package. MX takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location, skillset, peer compensation.

At MX, we seek to hire candidates who drive results and achieve succ