Staff 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. As a core participant of your engineering team, you’ll work with product managers and designers to refine requirements, estimate engineering efforts, design and code your changes, build automated tests for your changes, push your code to production, and provide excellent support for your high quality applications. 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

• Write full stack code for MX’s Intelligence products and supporting services.

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available 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).

• Encourage clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews.

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

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

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

• Lead system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

• Elevate the standards of design, implementation, quality, and engineering practices across the team.

• Coach and support engineers on the team, with a strong focus on feedback and growth. 

• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.

• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Basic Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

• 12+ years of experience with software development in one or more object-oriented programming languages with data structures, preferred.

• 8+ years of experience building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software in an enterprise team environment, preferred.

• Experience with software architecture and design of highly available and scalable systems.

• Knowledge of relational database modeling and optimization.

• Experience working with containerized applications and cloud providers.

• Experience with React or other javascript frontend frameworks

Advanced Requirements (preferred but not required)

• Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails.

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform technologies, such as GKE, CloudSQL, and BigQuery.

Work Environment

At MX, we utilize a hybrid work model, which allows us to attract top talent and increase impact through collaboration. Our team members enjoy a balance of remote work and in-office days. Travel expectations for remote employees is about 15%, and the company covers travel expenses for remote employees. Local employees will utilize in-office time on a