Lead Software Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)6 days ago
Tysons, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$212k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Oversee software product development, processes, systems, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Design and develop software solutions meeting quality, reliability, and strategic requirements.
- Identify system gaps and deliver technical solutions to address challenging technical situations.
- Manage and improve software development environments and provide engineers with tools and resources for building and validating software.
- Analyze software development trends, engineering practices, and test environment management tools to recommend improvements.
- Provide technical guidance to colleagues and support consistent team delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a closely related field and seven years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Alternatively, a master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a closely related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Experience with system design and object-oriented development using Java.
- Experience with AWS S3, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility.
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization, onboarding feature flags, migration from Jenkins to GitLab, DevOps and CI/CD technologies, test automation, unit testing, and software security.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with three days per week at the Tysons, Virginia worksite and up to six flexible weeks per year.
- Paid time off, personal and sick days, paid holidays, volunteer days, and paid military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, family-care, childbirth, and parental leave.
- Health, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, long-term care, business travel accident, and legal insurance benefits.
- 401(k) with company match and eligibility for additional FINRA-funded retirement contributions.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
- Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and overtime pay where applicable.
About Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)
FINRA is the U.S. self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers, writing and enforcing rules, examining firms, surveilling markets, and running investor tools like BrokerCheck. A nonprofit formed in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it oversees compliance for over 3,300 firms and 610,000 registered brokers. FINRA is funded by member assessments and regulatory fees rather than taxpayer dollars, and builds large-scale data and surveillance systems used across U.S. securities markets.