Software Engineering Intern - Margins
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About this role
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Apex Fintech Solutions is looking for a Software Engineering Intern with unbounded potential for a development team on the front lines of Apex's high-volume, high-availability trade clearing suite. We partner with some of the industry's hottest next-generation stock trading products. You'll be at the center of rapidly scaling services that will test your limits.
This role offers a hands-on opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of the Margins system, a critical part of the Apex Ascend platform. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers to add new features and enhance support for this system while gaining valuable real-world experience with modern technologies and building scalable and reliable software solutions. You will assist in developing secure and reliable gRPC and REST APIs for system integrations and learn to work with relational databases like PostgreSQL for efficient data storage and querying. The ideal candidate should have the ability to write code in Java/Python or demonstrate a strong willingness to learn
Have you been waiting on the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the fintech industry? Now's your chance.
What you will do:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
- Learn from and apply design techniques and coding standards coached by our Senior Engineers.
- Build resilient, self-scaling, self-healing services that allow you to sleep through the night.
- Support the production systems that you build. This includes build, deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty).
- Writing high-quality, well-tested code. Maintaining high code-quality standards across your team via code reviews.
What you can expect:
- A highly collaborative environment where everyone is focused on outcomes that build momentum for Apex to reach its goals.
- A culture that values a test-centric approach to software development where 100% unit test coverage is the expectation.
- End-to-end ownership of what you deploy. From documentation to service-level objectives, your team is ultimately responsible for the health of your products.
- Contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning.
- Access to mentors, generous policies regarding attending industry conferences and book reimbursement, regular lunch and learns.
- Quarterly 2-day hackathons.
- An environment committed to using the right tool to get the job done.
- Work that matters.
The skills you'll need to succeed:
- Currently pursuing a BA, BS, MS, PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
- Experience with SQL & Java
- 0 - 2+ years of experience as a software developer or similar job roles.
- Ability to learn new technologies (languages, tools, frameworks) quickly.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Financial services background is a plus.
Preferred skills:
- Have a real passion for software engineering, as demonstrated by previous internships, work experience, projects, or publications
- Familiarity with application of common design patterns
- Interested in backed or full stack software development
- Either previous knowledge in financial markets or a strong interest in learning