Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

Permanent, full-time, hybrid

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Business Segment Overview: With boots on the ground authenticity at the heart of everything we do, our comprehensive array of commercial products and services enable you to work directly with our clients, across hedging, risk management, execution and clearing, OTC products, commodity finance and more.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: StoneX Enterprise Platform Engineering Team is looking for an Engineer to develop the development and implementation of software for the platform. This focuses on developer experience, operational excellence, automation, data, and quality assurance. As a member of the observability-focused Platform Engineering team, you will deliver scalable, high-quality observability solutions that provide essential insights into systems and applications. You will contribute to executing our technology strategy, collaborating on lean agile projects, and ensuring timely delivery of solutions that meet or exceed quality standards. You will be responsible for the technical excellence and approach taken by less experienced team members, including providing guidance and oversight, planning and estimation, analyzing software performance and configuration systems, peer code reviews and documentation, and the deployment and integration of new software in alignment with technology standards. You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SME), stakeholders, and software engineering teams to estimate, execute, develop, and deploy solutions, continuously iterating to ensure that new features are adding value, enabling, and empowering our software engineering teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Large focus on developer experience and operational excellence
• Managing, working, and implementing third party technology vendors
• Lead the software development life cycle (SDLC) for the team including estimating, analysis, code design, development, testing, debugging, and maintenance
• Implement engineering standards, best practices, and quality assurance procedures
• Work closely with Core IT and software engineering teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical stories and execute on the roadmap
• Provide technical expertise and insight to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks
• Take responsibility for the quality of the applications as well as its alignment with technology goals
• Review and give constructive feedback on code
• Identify recurring issues and opportunities to improve engineering process
• Lead the execution of software solutions along with monitoring and supporting tools to ensure the team’s software works well in its operating environment
• Actively participate in strategic implementation regarding technology solutions and platform architecture
• Mentor and grow less experienced engineers
• Forward thinking on modern technology and automation to drive operational excellence and developer experience

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• 4+ years platform (or software) engineering experience. cloud, sre, devops, or full-stack
• Experience with IaC, specifically Terraform
• Experience with Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Strong experience with object-oriented programming and design, including C# or any other programming languages
• Experience designing, implementing, and integrating with gRPC and/or RESTful APIs.
• Experience with QA Engineering, Data Engineering, and SRE/DevOps practices
• Experience with automated build and deployment tools
• Experience designing and writing robust software for highly scalable, low-latency, event driven, distributed platforms
• Experience supporting, modifying, and maintaining systems and code that others develop
• Experience with modern architectures and practices including microservices (Twelve-Factor is a plus), cloud computing, micro frontends, data warehouse, quality assurance engineering, and domain driven design
• Experience working with Docker and PowerShell
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience moving from datacenter to the cloud
• Experience working with Datadog, including configuration, integration and advanced feature usage
• Knowledge of additional observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) is a plus

What makes you stand out:  

• Able to work in a positive team culture with a strong sense of accountability and collaboration
• Able to balance incoming requirements with a focus on tactical execution
• Excellent coding skillset and peer code review
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent skills in running distributed Lean Agile Scrum Teams
• Deep understanding of modern cloud native technology with microservice/microsite design patterns
• Deep understanding of cloud providers (Azure/AWS)
• Strong knowledge of observability principles (logging, monitoring, and tracing)
• Experience working in a Lean Agile

Working environment:

• Positive team culture with a strong sense of accountability and collaboration
• Hybrid; our new Cracow office address: St. Mogilska 35.