Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Help shape the future of market surveillance. As a lead engineer on FINRA’s Surveillance Modernization team, you’ll build and deliver a new Surveillance Platform that supports financial market integrity. Create intuitive tools, including AI agents, that empower Market Regulation experts to build, explore, and refine complex surveillances. You will report directly to an Engineering Director and mentor fellow engineers as you bring this platform to life.

Essential Job Functions:

• Seasoned contributor that works on complex projects requiring extensive knowledge of specialty area and industry practices
• Manages processes, projects or products to improve efficiency within org or product area
• Influences outcomes in cross-functional settings
• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives
• Excellent understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures
• Build on top of AWS infrastructure using industry leading microservice and serverless design patterns to deliver resilient and performant systems
• Work across the stack on front-end, back-end, and agentic systems to meet the needs of our customers

Engineering/Operations Excellence:

• Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions
• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management
• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

Collaboration:

• Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities
• Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions
• Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities
• Openly shares progress and priorities with key stakeholders, communicating complex or technical information at the right level
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience
• Strong system design experience
• Strong experience in object-oriented development
• Strong experience with cloud technologies
• Strong experience in data storage technologies
• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
• Strong experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies
• Strong experience test automation and unit testing
• Strong experience software security

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements
• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required

For work that is performed in CO, CT, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, WA, DC, NY, NJ, WA please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations.

Boston, MA: 131200 - 238300

Chicago, IL: 125900 - 228000

Denver, CO: 114200 - 207200

Jericho, NY: 131200 - 238300

Jersey City, NJ: 137000- 248700

Philadelphia, PA: 125900 - 228000

New York, NY: 137000 - 248700

Rockville, MD: 131200 - 238300

Tysons, VA: 131200 - 238300

Washington, DC: 131200 - 238300

Woodbridge, NJ: 131200 - 238300

Connecticut State: 114200 - 248700

Washington State: 114200 - 248700

LI-Hybrid

To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

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