Senior Engineer, Software Developer (Req# 000194) at LPL Financial in San Diego, CA

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Name of Employer: LPL Financial LLC Position Title: Senior Engineer, Software Developer (Req# 000194) Requisition: 000194 Hours: 40 hours per week Salary Range: $191,693- $201,693 per year Location: 4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, CA, 92121 JOB DUTIES: Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade backend software applications and distributed systems using modern programming frameworks and cloud technologies. Lead the design, development, test, and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable backend solutions based on business requirements and strategic technology direction. Build, enhance, and maintain microservices, REST APIs, and modular backend components using best practices in object-oriented programming, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and cloud-native design. Develop distributed, event-driven, and message-based systems using .NET, C#, asynchronous programming, and integration patterns for data-intensive applications. Utilize messaging platforms to integrate multiple enterprise applications and services, ensuring reliable communication and efficient data processing across systems. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior engineers, while ensuring compliance with SDLC and release management processes. Collaborate with product owners, QA teams, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering to gather requirements, design system enhancements, and deliver high-quality solutions. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to application logic, performance, scalability, reliability, or system integration, including root-cause analysis and remediation. Perform analysis of existing systems to identify opportunities for optimization, modernization, and automation; prepare architectural documentation and contribute to long-term technology roadmaps. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment workflows, infrastructure templates, and cloud provisioning scripts to support reliable software delivery. REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation. ALTERNATIVELY : Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience in software development and architecture or related occupation. Applicants must possess demonstrated expertise with the following: Demonstrated expertise (DE) designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise software applications and distributed backend systems. DE developing microservices and service-oriented architectures using .NET, C#, REST APIs, and modern architectural design patterns. DE building event-driven and message-based applications using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar enterprise messaging technologies. DE architecting and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS, using services such as EC2, S3, EKS, ECR, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, and Load Balancers. DE developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) provisioning scripts using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies. DE implementing source control and release workflows using Git-based tools, including branch strategy, conflict resolution, code reviews, and production release support. DE designing and managing containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS. DE performing unit testing using xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest, and analyzing relational database queries using SQL in SQL Server or PostgreSQL. DE troubleshooting complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues across distributed systems, cloud environments, an