Staff Software Engineer

Posted:
10/16/2024, 1:20:20 PM

Location(s):
Utah, United States ⋅ Lehi, Utah, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Life at MX

We are driven by our moral imperative to advance mankind - and it all starts with our people, product and purpose. We always carry a deep sense of drive and passion with us. If you thrive in a challenging work environment, surrounded by incredible team members who will help you grow, MX is the right place for you.

Come build with us and be part of an award-winning company that’s helping create meaningful and lasting change in the financial industry.

Our software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with their finances. Our products need to handle data at a massive scale. You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, search, platform, test, quality, big data, front end and back end. As the tech lead for your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, mentor peer engineers, triage production issues, design, implement, test and release code changes. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world to be financially strong

We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Job Duties

  • Help us build and maintain a world-class technology system so we can achieve our mission of making the world financially strong.

  • You will lead by example, and elevate the design, implementation, quality, and strong engineering practices across the team.

  • Influence, coach, and support engineers on the team, with a strong focus on feedback and growth. 

  • Write product or system development code owning assignments from design through testing and deployment.

  • Facilitate and execute scrum activities and ceremonies, engaging with Product Management to refine product and sprint backlogs.

  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on infrastructure, network, or service operations and quality.

  • Lead system architecture discussions and technical design reviews driving scalability, reliability, and security.

  • Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select and implement design patterns and technologies.

  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

  • Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews.

  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

  • Demonstrate empathy for the client perspective and champion solutions that reduce (client) developer friction.

Basic Job Requirements 

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

  • 12+ years experience with software development in one or more programming languages with data structures or algorithms preferred.

  • 7+ years experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years of experience with software design and architecture preferred.

  • Advanced Ruby on Rails experience required.

  • Experience designing, maintaining and migrating high traffic APIs applications in distributed architectures. 

  • Aptitude in building and delivering presentations, communicating across a variety of media with internal and external audiences is highly desirable.

Advanced Job Requirements (not required)

  • Masters Degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

  • React and Redux experience (preferred), with a solid understanding of the underlying JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals and other frontend technologies.

Compensation

The expected on-target earnings (OTE), which is comprised of a base salary and other forms of cash compensation, such as bonus or commissions is currently $150,000 to $180,000. This pay range is just one component of MX's total rewards package. MX takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location, skillset, peer compensation.

#LI-Remote

At MX, we seek to hire candidates who drive results and achieve successful outcomes. We utilize a hybrid work arrangement style, which may require both local and remote team members to be in the office when necessary, to kick off projects, hold cross team strategy meetings, or complete key deliverables. Remote team members will travel into the office four times per year, and MX covers travel expenses associated with this requirement. Both local and remote employees can take advantage of our incredible office space with onsite perks, company-paid meals, onsite massage therapists, sports simulator, gym, mother’s lounge, and meditation room.

MX is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [email protected].

MX Technologies Inc

Website: https://mx.com/

Headquarter Location: Lehi, Utah, United States

Employee Count: 501-1000

Year Founded: 2010

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Series C

Industries: Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ FinTech