Location: Charlotte, NC
Salary: $53.00 USD Hourly - $57.00 USD Hourly
Description: Software Engineer / Lead Software EngineerLocation: Charlotte, NC
Employment Type: Contingent Resource Assignment
About the RoleAs a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-quality software solutions. You'll partner closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to solve moderately complex technical challenges, influence architectural decisions, and support the execution of key initiatives across the Digital & Trading Technology organization.
This role sits within Wealth Management Technology, where AI, digital transformation, and modern market infrastructure are reshaping the future of investing. You will work across both Kubernetes-based on-premises platforms and public cloud environments, collaborating in a hybrid work model (three days in office) alongside product partners and first-line support teams.
What You'll Do- Contribute to planning and execution of software engineering deliverables for moderately complex initiatives.
- Review, analyze, and troubleshoot technical challenges requiring evaluation of multiple variables.
- Design, build, and maintain APIs and microservices in a modern distributed architecture.
- Develop high-quality, maintainable code in Java, React, and TypeScript.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across engineering, product, and operations to deliver end-to-end digital wealth solutions.
- Apply knowledge of engineering best practices, operational compliance, and internal policies.
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership to engineers (Lead role).
- Partner in an Agile environment with shared ownership of product outcomes.
Required Qualifications- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent through training, military service, education, or consulting).
- 5+ years of hands-on development experience with Java and/or React + TypeScript.
- 2+ years of experience designing and developing APIs and microservices.
- 2+ years of experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership (required for Lead role).
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with .NET, trading systems, or market data protocols (e.g., FIX).
- Experience conducting code reviews and ensuring production-ready code quality.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, or Cucumber/Gherkin (BDD).
- Experience building RESTful services using Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, including container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Understanding of software architecture and solution design principles.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, and modern developer tools (e.g., VS Code).
- Familiarity with application security practices and vulnerability detection tools (e.g., SonarQube).
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