Sr Engineer, Python Software Developer

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Job Description

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working on meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!

Job Overview:

We are looking to hire a Senior Full Stack Developer in the Technology organization. Under the direction of the Application Development Manager, this position will help solve business requirements and technology directions to support Product Roadmaps and LPL vision.  This position will involve collaboration with business partners, Architects, Quality Assurance, Release Management, and the Change Control board to plan, design, develop and implement solutions for these needs.

The candidate should be capable of designing and developing timely, high-quality products, with state-of-the-art interfaces to best solve these needs, and have the drive to ensure that the vision and success criteria are met within budget and schedule constraints.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable enterprise-class applications with expertise in full-stack development in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment

• Participate in all phases of the software engineering life cycle

• Provide technical troubleshooting and advanced debugging support

• Develop and implement highly scalable core platform components and provide support to the clients, applications and services

• Evaluate new design proposals, investigate and recommend solutions and process improvements that deliver applications with high scalability and performance

• Assist with conceptual design and rough order of magnitude (ROM) level of effort estimations

• Ensure the necessary platform technical documentation is maintained in an appropriate manner

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience with product development and architecture of software, applications and services

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with full-stack application development using Python, Angular (or similar), and a relational database

• Minimum of 4 years' experience with Varicent and ELT

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with cloud or hybrid cloud development

• Hands-on experience with AWS with preferred practice in ECS, EKS, Fargate, VPC, S3, AWS CLI, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk and Serverless computing

Core Competencies:

• Experience guiding, coaching, and developing with other engineers

• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both oral and written

• Familiarity with code source control, build processes, and continuous delivery

• Ability to facilitate, influence and manage change to deliver solutions

• Delivered projects within an Agile software development practice

Preferences:

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, IT or related field

• A cloud developer or engineer certification is preferred

• Knowledge of Microservices design patterns and development

• Experience developing solutions for API, message and event streaming architectures; Platform, Apache Kafka and/or StreamSets are a plus

• Knowledge of Software Design patterns and best practices

• Advanced skills of domain driven design and test driven development

• Knowledge of DevSecOps methods and best practices

• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform are a plus

 

Pay Range:

$106,125-$176,875/year

 

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 compe