Director, Software Engineering

WHO WE ARE

Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and Webull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers. 

Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. As a global organization, we have offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila.

If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you. 

AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

• 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards

• 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company

• 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We are looking for a Director, Software Engineering to lead the design and evolution of a multi-tenant wealth management platform. In this role, you will define platform architecture and technical strategy for systems serving correspondent firms and their end investors. You will focus on scalability, security, and regulatory compliance while working closely with engineering, product, compliance, and customer integration teams to support continued growth.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a senior engineering leader who combines architectural rigor with strong execution. You approach system design proactively by identifying edge cases, regulatory constraints, and failure modes early, while still moving ideas into production. You balance exploration with delivery and design systems that are resilient, configurable, and understandable by teams beyond yourself. You believe strong platforms reduce operational risk by design through clear contracts, guardrails, automation, and documentation.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Design and oversee architecture for a multi-tenant platform supporting correspondent firms and millions of end investors

• Define the technical strategy for white-label and partner-branded investing experiences

• Architect secure authorization models with strong tenant isolation

• Lead architecture for high-volume onboarding, funding, and trading workflows in a cloud-native GCP environment

• Ensure platform design meets SEC, FINRA, and SOC 2 compliance requirements

• Build auditability, data retention, and compliance guardrails directly into system design

• Provide technical leadership across Go-based backend services and GraphQL BFF layers

• Communicate architectural decisions clearly to engineering teams and executive stakeholders

• Mentor engineers on platform security, multi-tenancy, and compliance-aware development

• Drive Architecture Decision Records to maintain shared context and prevent architectural drift

• Partner with product leadership to align technical solutions with business and investor needs

• Support customer integration teams on SSO, API onboarding, and white-label deployments

• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into scalable technical solutions

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field

• 10+ years of engineering experience

• 5+ years in senior technical or architectural leadership roles

• Experience building and operating multi-tenant B2B2C platforms at scale

• Experience designing GraphQL APIs and BFF architectures

• Experience  in fintech or wealth management with

• Strong experience with GCP, including BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud Run, and GKE, as well as Kubernetes

• Experience operating PostgreSQL in high-scale environments

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team of software engineers. 

• Expertise in architecting massively scalable mobile/end user applications.

• Excellent technical expertise in software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices. 

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and project management p