Solutions Engineer

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 8 million clients and 19,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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Team Overview:

You may be surprised to know that Edward Jones employs thousands of technical resources - all focused on creating world-class experiences for our clients and branch offices. If you’ve considered Edward Jones in the past, it’s time to take another look. We are in the midst of embracing a modern, cloud-based architecture and are looking for exceptional individuals that want to be a part of that future.

We've invested millions of dollars into new technology platforms to help improve what matters most in our industry, client experience. We're currently implementing a modern, cloud-based architecture and are looking for talented, and motived professionals that want to be part of providing the best client experience and financial resources possible.

What you'll do:

As a Solution Engineer you will work in and across multiple teams, helping your colleagues overcome the most difficult engineering challenges they face. SEs spend most of their time with hands on keys working on the most challenging problems their teams face especially proving feasibility and patterns, you also spend time helping others make tradeoffs. You will help your teams design tests to validate assumptions and tradeoffs of different solution options. You will mentor senior engineers, teaching them skills that will in turn help them mentor others more effectively. Solution Engineers are advanced, technical experts with 10 years of experience in leading development projects of significant scope and scale, requiring deep solution knowledge and confidence within the engineering space.

Here are a few of the key responsibilities you will be a part of :

• Determine solutions for the difficult challenges our Firm faces from a technical perspective ; analyzing complex systems to problem solve for these challenges.
• Collaborate across entire product teams, working with product managers, scrum masters, developers, etc. within a matrixed product team.
• Influence how our most challenging technical problems are solved.
• Ensure Product Teams are equipped to deal with the most difficult engineering challenges they face.
• Participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects.
• Mentor and help develop other mentors by teaching experienced engineers how to pass on their skills more.

What Experience You'll Need :
• Bachelor's degree and/or related work experience
• 10+ years of experience in a variety of technical fields including software and infrastructure engineering, including :

• A deep understanding of operating critical & enterprise hardened production systems. A deep understanding of Observability to reduce toil and improve MTTR during incidents.
• Fluent in multiple programming languages and development stacks. Knowledgeable of multiple systems to design more resilient and maintainable solutions. Strong expertise in Java or JavaScript required.
• Expert in test automation with demonstrated mastery of code level unit and integration tests. Responsibility includes mastery over various strategies of how to test complex and distributed systems through automation.
• Expert in design patterns, Domain Driven Design and scalable Microservices. Experience with distributed caching, event-driven and streaming frameworks preferred.
• Experienced in designing and building highly scalable, distributed & secure solutions that run in a cloud environment such as Azure.
• Experienced in both relational and non-relational data stores.

***Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with a preference for Tuesday through Thursday.***

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate: