Name of Employer: LPL Financial LLC
Position Title: Senior Engineer, Software Developer (Req# 000194)
Requisition: 000194
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary Range: $191,693- $201,693 per year
Location: 4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, CA, 92121
JOB DUTIES: Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade backend software applications and distributed systems using modern programming frameworks and cloud technologies. Lead the design, development, test, and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable backend solutions based on business requirements and strategic technology direction. Build, enhance, and maintain microservices, REST APIs, and modular backend components using best practices in object-oriented programming, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and cloud-native design. Develop distributed, event-driven, and message-based systems using .NET, C#, asynchronous programming, and integration patterns for data-intensive applications. Utilize messaging platforms to integrate multiple enterprise applications and services, ensuring reliable communication and efficient data processing across systems. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior engineers, while ensuring compliance with SDLC and release management processes. Collaborate with product owners, QA teams, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering to gather requirements, design system enhancements, and deliver high-quality solutions. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to application logic, performance, scalability, reliability, or system integration, including root-cause analysis and remediation. Perform analysis of existing systems to identify opportunities for optimization, modernization, and automation; prepare architectural documentation and contribute to long-term technology roadmaps. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment workflows, infrastructure templates, and cloud provisioning scripts to support reliable software delivery.
REQUIREMENTS:MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation.
ALTERNATIVELY: Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation.
Applicants must possess demonstrated expertise with the following:- Demonstrated expertise (DE) designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise software applications and distributed backend systems.
- DE developing microservices and service-oriented architectures using .NET, C#, REST APIs, and modern architectural design patterns.
- DE building event-driven and message-based applications using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar enterprise messaging technologies.
- DE architecting and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS, using services such as EC2, S3, EKS, ECR, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, and Load Balancers.
- DE developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) provisioning scripts using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
- DE implementing source control and release workflows using Git-based tools, including branch strategy, conflict resolution, code reviews, and production release support.
- DE designing and managing containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.
- DE performing unit testing using xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest, and analyzing relational database queries using SQL in SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
- DE troubleshooting complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues across distributed systems, cloud environments, and backend services.
Pay Range: $191,693- $201,693 per year
Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play - such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit ;br>
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
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