Data Engineer

Dallas, TX, United States

Who We Are

Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and WeBull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.

Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Portland, and Belfast.

If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.

AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards

2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company

2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards

About This Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to help us create solutions that modernize the data platform of traditional financial services industry. Apex is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling fintech standouts like Stash, Webull and Betterment. You will design, develop, deploy, and maintain real-time databases, data warehouse, and reports that will be the foundation of the new data platform. Working alongside experienced engineers and product managers, you will build this exciting platform that will simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial data for internal and external clients.

We’re looking for someone who:

Is passionate. You have a genuine passion for technology. You love using technology differently to maximize opportunity and impact for customers and you have a way of bringing out that same fire in the people you work with

Is motivated. You’re driven to be the best – whether that’s decreasing system down time or making an innovative change to “how it’s always been done” resulting in a more efficient way of supporting the customer. You challenge yourself by setting goals and exceeding them

Is collaborative. You’re excited to work with fellow engineers and big thinkers. You know how to collaborate not only within the department, but also across the organization

Wants to make an impact. You’re looking to do amazing work. You value preventing problems from occurring over being caught in the chaos zone putting out fires and looking for the “hero” spotlight

Strives for frictionless IT. You understand the importance of building great partnerships. You promote a seamless, smooth, user friendly and reliable environment.

What you’ll do all day:

Be a data wizard. Create, manipulate, access, and deliver data in the most efficient ways possible to business users, end-customers, 3rd-party vendors, and application developers

Work the data. Create processes to load, transform, and deliver data to business users, end-customers, 3rd party vendors, and application developers.

Learn the data. Utilize excellent analytical and problem-solving techniques to understand our complex data structures and put the data to work. Participate in all phases of the development process.

See the data. Build reports, analytics and visualizations to help meet business initiatives and make decisions.

Make us better. Identify, advocate for, and implement solutions to improve performance and efficiencies across systems, APIs, and overnight batch processing. Develop quality code that is maintainable and avoids problems. Promote a culture for effective documentation and lessons learned.

Be a great team member. Work as a member of an agile software development team to rapidly produce software. Balance both project-based and day-to-day support tasks.

Show off your work. Embrace transparency and share metrics around our levels of service with the rest of the company and our customers.

Live our culture. Embrace Apex’s values as our differentiator and be an example of them every day.

The skills you’ll need to succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a similar field

2+ years of data engineering and analysis

2+ years of experience in ETL processes

1+ years of experience with Python

1+ years of experience with Cloud Data technologies

Advanced problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills

Excellent client support skills

Proficient with version control systems, ideally GitHub

Ability and willingness to learn new things (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly

Financial services background preferred

Experience with the MS SQL Server experience nice to have

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OUR REWARDS

We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.

AFS is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, disability, age, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law.

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