Lead Software Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)3 days ago
Rockville, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop reliable, performant software solutions for FINRA’s Surveillance Platform.
- Build systems on AWS using microservice and serverless design patterns.
- Work across front-end, back-end, and agentic systems.
- Apply system design, object-oriented development, data storage, performance optimization, testing, DevOps, and software security practices.
- Identify system gaps and deliver solutions that support business and strategic objectives.
- Analyze software development trends and engineering practices and communicate integration recommendations to management.
- Coach and train less experienced engineers.
- Partner across teams, remove barriers, and communicate progress and technical information to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
- Strong system design experience.
- Strong experience with object-oriented development, cloud technologies, data storage technologies, and performance tuning and optimization.
- Strong experience with DevOps and CI/CD technologies.
- Strong experience with test automation and unit testing.
- Strong experience with software security.
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements; occasional travel and extended hours may be required.
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus and overtime pay where applicable.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, plus life, disability, long-term care, business travel accident, and legal insurance.
- Immediate 401(k) participation and vesting with company match, plus eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
- Paid time off starting at 15 days and increasing to 25 days, plus personal days, sick days, volunteer service days, paid holidays, and other paid leave.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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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.