Senior Software Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)2 months ago
Rockville, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$98k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the DIVER, BDSQL, METASTOR, and FASTOLA software products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions aligned with business requirements.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical strategy.
- Ensure code quality, performance optimization, and adherence to software development best practices.
- Support production systems and troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Identify and resolve technical risks, cross-team dependencies, and infrastructure maintenance challenges.
- Develop and improve cloud infrastructure, data storage, software systems, and operational processes.
- Help define and deliver short-, mid-, and long-term team goals.
- Build collaborative relationships with senior internal and external partners and demonstrate FINRA’s values.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, with at least five years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.
- Strong experience with big data engineering, object-oriented development, system design, cloud technologies, and data storage technologies.
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization, DevOps and CI/CD technologies, test automation, unit testing, and software security.
- Experience designing and developing software with AWS services, programming languages, databases, APIs, and frontend technologies.
- Ability to work independently on broad, complex problems requiring judgment, creativity, and technical decision-making.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements; occasional travel and extended hours may be required.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, plus life, disability, long-term care, business travel accident, and legal insurance.
- Immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
- Fifteen paid time-off days, five personal days, nine sick days, two volunteer service days, paid holidays, and additional military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, family care, childbirth, and parental leave.
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, and non-exempt employees may be eligible for overtime pay.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.