Staff Software Engineer

Description
At Edelman Financial Engines (EFE), our purpose is to guide people with the financial advice they need to thrive.

We believe that every dollar saved represents a lifetime of hard work and aspirations, and every dollar invested has job to do for our clients. That's why we are committed to managing our clients' investments by truly understanding them as people first and then delivering advice, strategies and solutions to help them feel confident about the plans they are making, whether for today, tomorrow, or in the great unknown future. Our goal is to build long-term relationships based on respect, integrity, and a belief that our responsibility is to help people make smart investments decisions in every stage of their lives.

Our culture is grounded in our CORE values: Client First, One Team, Respectful Candor, and Endless Curiosity. These values guide everything we do, for our clients and each other. We are committed to moving forward together. If you are inspired by purpose-driven work and a collaborative, values-led culture, we invite you to explore a career with us.

Our product and technology organization builds solutions that provide personalized financial planning and advice for over a million clients, accounting for over $290B in assets under management and used daily by EFE's team of 340+ planners across the United States. Our employees are empowered to make decisions that drive business value without red-tape and push the bounds of financial and technical innovation.

We follow an agile process, moving quickly, solving difficult problems in new ways, and empowering everyone to have a voice in the direction of our products. Because we are passionate about building quality software, we invest heavily in automated testing, take code reviews seriously and prioritize refactoring. We have a dedicated focus on the improvement of the skills of the team members and provide opportunities to use new technologies and work in different areas of our codebase.

We are looking for a staff-level full stack software engineer to join us and help build rich web experiences that delight our customers and empower our financial planning teams to do their best work. As a Senior member of the engineering team, you will be responsible for the design, development and observability of the team's work. Our Staff Engineers wear a lot of hats - including hands-on coding, mentoring developers, influencing our product vision, and designing our system architecture. We have high standards for code quality, all forms of testing, and intelligent architecture.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and hands-on development for our single page applications used by our clients and our financial planners in Typescript and React as well as our backend services in Java
• Designing and developing the infrastructure as code for lambda functions, their associated data stores and any required connected services using AWS CloudFormation
• Leading epics from idea to implementation including work estimation, collaboration with our product team, development, testing, code review and deployment
• Coaching and mentoring engineers on the squad through code reviews, pair programming, interactive design sessions and team retrospectives
• Interviewing and recruiting engineers to strengthen the team

Requirements

• 5-10 years software development experience including experience developing web applications using React, Angular or similar Javascript-based frameworks
• Experience developing APIs in Java, Javascript using node, or other similar technologies
• AWS cloud experience is highly preferable
• Experience working in an agile environment such as SCRUM or Kanban is a plus
• Familiarity in using AI-powered tools for software development, such as GitHub Copilot, for tasks including code review, writing unit tests, and code generation
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

About Edelman Financial Engines
Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to always acting in the best interests of our clients. We were founded on the belief that all investors – not just the wealthy – deserve access to personal, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice. Today, we are America's top independent financial planning and investment advisory firm, recognized by Barron's 1 with 143+ offices across the country and entrusted by 1.3 million clients to manage more than $300 billion in assets 2 Our unique approach to serving clients combines our advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated personal financial planner. Every client's situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves.

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