Senior Software Engineer; C# .Net

Senior Software Engineer (C# .NET) – LPL Financial

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Job Overview: We are looking for an inspired innovative Senior Developer for our cloud transformation journey, with background in development of high throughput mission critical business applications, leveraging AWS technologies with .Net, SQL Server, and Postgre

SQL. The individual will need to be well versed in financial, trading and advisory technologies. As a trusted engineer, you will work cross‑functional teams to ensure development, deliver quality and meet deadlines. This is a techno‑functional hands‑on, technical role in the trading organization that will design, architect and develop cloud‑native and on‑prem services to support LPL’s overall cloud strategy and transformation.

• Be part of a tech team to design, develop, test and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction utilizing AWS cloud native technologies (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).
• Deep understanding and seasoned on cloud migration strategies with AWS and e2e SDLC.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale and modernize existing trading platforms.
• Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, Dev Ops and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.
• Code and implement guardrails to enable self‑service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end‑to‑end applications and services in the cloud.
• Formulating workable solutions to complex challenges, logically deliberating on courses of action by examining and challenging assumptions, discerning hidden value, objectively evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions.
• Measure success by say/do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.
• Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance trading platforms/applications.
• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in owning and driving full stack applications as hands‑on Senior Engineering member – guiding, solutioning, delivering and documenting team’s development efforts towards successful project delivery and application support.
• 6+ years of hands‑on designing/deploying/migrating on‑prem windows services, .Net apps and databases to AWS.
• 6+ years of hands‑on experience with Kafka and event‑driven architectures/patterns.
• 6+ years of related experience in capital markets with a strong understanding of trading intraday flows and financial industry.
• A master of .NET Framework, C#, .Net Core, SQL Server and NOSQL DBs (Postgre
  
  SQL preferable).
• Strong background on improving application resiliency, scalability and overall system performance.
• Strong understanding and interest in production incident management process, application support and monitoring tools leading to timely triage, detection, debugging and resolution of production incidents and reduction in MTTR.

• Experience with owning and production support of mission critical applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non‑technical.
• Strong estimation, foresight, analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to interface effectively with senior SVP/EVP level executives and business stakeholders.
• Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools.
• Experience working with offshore teams and contingent workers.
• Experience championing Agile methodologies for accomplishing delivery deadlines.

• Experience working in trading domain with knowledge of backend trading and order…