Senior Database Developer at Apex Clearing Corporation (Dallas, TX)

Senior Database Developerat Apex Clearing (View all jobs)

Dallas, TX

This is an incredible opportunity for a Senior Database Developer to join a team focused on being the best database developers in clearing. Apex is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling fintech standouts like Stash, Robinhood and Betterment. Have you been waiting on the opportunity to join a winning technical team? Nows your chance.

Were 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. Youre driven to be the best whether thats decreasing system down time or making an innovative change to how its always been done resulting in a more efficient way of supporting the customer. You challenge yourself by setting goals and exceeding them
• Is collaborative. Youre 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. Youre 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 youll do all day:

• Be a data wizard. Create, manipulate, access, and deliver data in the most efficient ways possible.
• Work the data.Create processes to load, transform, and deliver data to business users, end-customers, 3rd-party vendors, and application developers.
• See the data. Build insightful data models, reports, analytics and dashboards to help meet business initiatives and make decisions.
• Learn the data. Utilize your extensive expertise in RDBMS, database concepts, and data profiling techniques to understand our data and be able to use it productively.
• 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. Be able to balance project-based and day-to-day support tasks. Identify smart and creative ways to solve any issues or challenges. Provide guidance and best practice expertise on database systems design. Mentor junior members and provide training.
• 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 Apexs values as our differentiator and be an example of them every day.

A few reasons why you might love us:

• Were a leader in the space. Apex is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling fintech standouts like Stash, Robinhood and Betterment. Weve got an amazing track record of success and we foster ongoing innovation. So you get all the benefits of a proven, growing company, while enjoying a very entrepreneurial culture
• We see tech differently. Youll work with people who are leaders in the tech industry. We are passionate engineers dedicated to finding new and different ways to use technology to solve our customers problems.
• Your work will have immediate impact. Youll be able to see your direct impact on our tech department, our business, and with our clients. You wont be just another talented engineer.

And a few reasons why you may not like working for us:

• You dont like change. This is not a job for someone who likes predictable. The job is based on the unknown which inevitably means change. If you like to know what youre going to do every day, you may not like working on this team. You have to go with the flow here.
• Youre not the collaborative type. We work together to ensure the best possible solutions for our customers. We think two brains are better than one so we do most of our work together. Team work makes the dream work on this team.
• Youre a tech snob. We deal with all technology Linux and Windows; .NET and Java; SQL and noSQL (mongoDB); RabbitMQ and other open source tools and libraries. We love technology and want to work with all of it. If youre wed to a particular tech, you may not like working for us.

The skills youll need to succeed:  

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a similar field
• 5+ years of RDBMS Development Experience and ETL
• 2+ years of experience in the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
• Experience in scripting for automation (Python, Linux, PowerShell)
• Knowledge in NoSQL technologies (preferably MongoDB)
• Ability to learn new things (languages, tools, frameworks) very quickly
• Financial services background preferred

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