Senior Software Engineer

Signal Advisors is on a mission to solve the retirement crisis. 69% of Americans do not work with a financial advisor today, and only a quarter have a financial plan. Our team is reimagining a 60-year-old industry—bringing new technologies, comprehensive services, and an inspired vision to financial advisors. Supported by our incredible investors, we’ve grown from a small Detroit-based team in 2020 to over 130+ team members dispersed across the country.

We are:
Empowering Leaders. Client Advocates. Entrepreneurial Champions.

Our team is a blend of industry experts and technologists building a better business, together. We’re in it for the long haul. Are you looking to be part of a dedicated, dispersed team where you can architect your impact and shape the company’s vision? Join us at Signal!

As a Senior Software Engineer at Signal Advisors, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and evolving our core platform. You’ll work across the stack—frontend, backend, and infrastructure—to deliver highly reliable, secure, and intuitive software for a fast-growing financial services business. You won't just build features; you will architect the systems that power our industry-leading platform, working at the intersection of sophisticated frontend experiences and robust, scalable backend services.

Our Independent Financial Advisor platform handles sensitive data and powers critical workflows, including real-time commission reporting, secure document management, and notifications. You’ll help shape both the technical direction and day-to-day execution of the platform, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Experience in financial services is a plus, but not required.

• Own the design and delivery of full-stack features—from frontend UI through backend services and infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the health of our stack, ensuring seamless integration between React SPAs, Node.js microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and security across the stack.
• Champion best practices in code quality, security, and testing. You will lead code reviews and establish patterns that the rest of the team will follow.
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

• Systems Thinker:
  You look beyond the immediate ticket to understand how changes impact the entire ecosystem, from database latency to user perceived performance.
• Product-Minded Leader:
  You translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions and can communicate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial Ownership:
  You don't wait for a spec to be perfect. You proactively identify bottlenecks, security gaps, or technical debt and drive the solutions to completion.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant work in both frontend and backend development.
• Expert-level proficiency with tools like Cursor or Claude Code to accelerate development, refactoring, and automated testing.
• Ability to leverage AI to ship features at startup speed without sacrificing architectural integrity or quality.
• Deep experience with React, including application architecture, performance considerations, and component library design. Strong proficiency with Type Script, modern JavaScript, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience building and maintaining Node.js REST APIs.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native development using AWS and/or GCP (e.g., Cloud Run, Lambda/Cloud Functions, Datastore, Firebase).
• Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Familiarity with build tooling, testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience collaborating with design using tools like Figma.
• A user-centered mindset and the ability to balance technical excellence with delivery speed.

These are the values that drive how we operate…