Data Platform 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 on 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 team participant, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement and test your changes, push to live production environments, 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 about tackling new problems across the entire stack as we push technology forward.

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

Job Duties

• Use professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues creatively and effectively.

• Work on complex issues where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of the problem, constraints, available resources, and potential solutions.

• Exercise good judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

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

• Write high-quality product or system development code using a CI/CD approach.

• Thoughtfully review code developed by other engineers and provide constructive feedback to ensure ongoing learning and the use of software development best practices.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve them by analyzing the issue’s source and impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

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

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

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

• Provide 24/7 Production On-call support 1xMonth

Basic Job Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

• 6+ years experience with software development in one or more programming languages with data structures or algorithms preferred

• 6 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 

• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. 

• Experience with Object Oriented Programming paradigm

• Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git)

• Skills in any programming language, but experience in  Ruby, Go, or JavaScript is especially relevant

• Strong sense of writing and refactoring clean, maintainable code

• Ability and willingness to collaborate with key stakeholders outside one’s area of expertise

Advanced Job Requirements (not Mandatory)

• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and RabbitMQ

• Master's Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical fields

• Experience with public cloud environments like GCP or AWS

• Familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, including proficiency in using Argo for workflow management

• Experience with RDBMS (PostgresQL, Oracle, MySQL etc) & NoSQL (Redis, Mongo, Couchbase etc) database technologies is plus