LPL Financial
Principal Software Developer
At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. You will be working with a motivated team in a fast-paced environment. A principal developer's day involves leading the morning stand-up meeting, overseeing code reviews, tackling the most complex coding tasks, and guiding the team through design and architecture discussions. They also participate in strategic meetings like sprint planning and retrospectives, monitor overall project progress, ensure smooth code deployment, and provide mentorship to senior and junior developers alike. By the end of the day, they review the team's progress, update key documentation, and strategize for the next day's tasks. Responsibilities
Lead the design, implementation, and development of dynamic account opening and account maintenance applications. Explore and implement AI based solutions to enhance the account opening and client onboarding systems. Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL's modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC, and release management processes. Develop positive relationships with business partners to understand their needs, manage expectations, deliver value-add solutions and support translation of problem statements into system requirements. Assess opportunities for application and process improvements and show success through KPIs. Full application life-cycle coordination and management of deliverables in alignment with best practices and organizational compliance goals Collaborate with other shared services teams (technical and non-technical) to ensure solutions and platforms are both functional and sustainable. Use customer and business feedback to inform roadmaps and non-functional goals. What Are We Looking For?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement. Desired Skills and Competencies
12+ years of hands on full-stack development Proficiency in .NET Framework: Strong understanding of .NET Core and .NET Framework. Ability to create and consume RESTful services. Strong understanding of Angular concepts such as components, modules, services, and dependency injection. Understanding responsive design principles to ensure applications work on various devices. Knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Experience with IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform. Utilizing AI-powered tools like Copilot to generate code snippets, boilerplate code, and entire functions based on natural language descriptions. Leveraging AI to provide intelligent code completions, reducing the time spent on writing repetitive code. Using AI to identify potential bugs and suggest fixes in real-time as you write code. Code Refactoring: Employing AI to suggest and automate code refactoring, improving code quality and maintainability. Documentation Generation: Utilizing AI to generate documentation for code, including comments, function descriptions, and usage examples. CI/CD using GitHub repositories. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical. Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and resolve issues efficiently. Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools. Pay Range
$155,288-$258,813/year. Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer! Company Overview
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. You will be working with a motivated team in a fast-paced environment. A principal developer's day involves leading the morning stand-up meeting, overseeing code reviews, tackling the most complex coding tasks, and guiding the team through design and architecture discussions. They also participate in strategic meetings like sprint planning and retrospectives, monitor overall project progress, ensure smooth code deployment, and provide mentorship to senior and junior developers alike. By the end of the day, they review the team's progress, update key documentation, and strategize for the next day's tasks. Responsibilities
Lead the design, implementation, and development of dynamic account opening and account maintenance applications. Explore and implement AI based solutions to enhance the account opening and client onboarding systems. Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL's modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC, and release management processes. Develop positive relationships with business partners to understand their needs, manage expectations, deliver value-add solutions and support translation of problem statements into system requirements. Assess opportunities for application and process improvements and show success through KPIs. Full application life-cycle coordination and management of deliverables in alignment with best practices and organizational compliance goals Collaborate with other shared services teams (technical and non-technical) to ensure solutions and platforms are both functional and sustainable. Use customer and business feedback to inform roadmaps and non-functional goals. What Are We Looking For?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement. Desired Skills and Competencies
12+ years of hands on full-stack development Proficiency in .NET Framework: Strong understanding of .NET Core and .NET Framework. Ability to create and consume RESTful services. Strong understanding of Angular concepts such as components, modules, services, and dependency injection. Understanding responsive design principles to ensure applications work on various devices. Knowledge of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Experience with IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform. Utilizing AI-powered tools like Copilot to generate code snippets, boilerplate code, and entire functions based on natural language descriptions. Leveraging AI to provide intelligent code completions, reducing the time spent on writing repetitive code. Using AI to identify potential bugs and suggest fixes in real-time as you write code. Code Refactoring: Employing AI to suggest and automate code refactoring, improving code quality and maintainability. Documentation Generation: Utilizing AI to generate documentation for code, including comments, function descriptions, and usage examples. CI/CD using GitHub repositories. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical. Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and resolve issues efficiently. Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools. Pay Range
$155,288-$258,813/year. Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer! Company Overview
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.