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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,500.0 - $202,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithm Design, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Data Structures, DevOps, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Big O, Software Engineering, Data Storage Technologies, Software Security, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8faf6e8b879592b2

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 5 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
 * System design experience
 * Strong experience in object-oriented development
 * Strong experience with cloud technologies
 * Strong experience in data storage technologies
 * Experience in performance tuning and optimization
 * Experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies
 * Experience test automation and unit testing
 * Experience software security

## Description

Under minimal supervision, the Senior Software Engineer assists in developing software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle.

Essential Job Functions:

 * Works on broad problems of scope that require decision making and creativity
 * Receives general guidance but work is done independently and impacts team level goals
 * Defines technical solutions or operational processes to improve efficiency
 * Possesses a solid understanding and familiarity of systems and processes within job area
 * Delivers many of the team's goals on time and with a high standard of quality.
 * Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project. Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project.
 * Demonstrated understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures.

Engineering/Operations Excellence:

 * Solves complex business problems, situations, processes based on existing theories of frameworks
 * Implements ways to simplify code and infrastructure. Prioritizes tasks that lead to lower system and infrastructure maintenance and migration costs with meaningful and measurable impact.
 * Examines problems from different perspectives and uses evaluation, judgement, and interpretation to select right course of action
 * Helps team identify, prioritize, and deliver on clear short, mid and long-term goals aligned to the business.
 * Accepts risk and uncertainty of business change as normal
 * Builds productive and collaborative working relationships with senior internal/external partners to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities
 * Actively seeks perspectives and works to engage others when communicating
 * Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team
 * Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward
 * Demonstration of FINRA's values.
 * Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA's mission of investor protection and market integrity., FINRA's Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees' investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code's investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions-including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA's Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President-by the date they begin employment with FINRA.
Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA's Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company's policy on nepotism.

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