Senior Software Architect

Life at MX

We are driven by our moral imperative to advance mankind - and it all starts with our people, product and purpose. We always carry a deep sense of drive and passion with us. If you thrive in a challenging work environment, surrounded by incredible team members who will help you grow, MX is the right place for you.

Come build with us and be part of an award-winning company that’s helping create meaningful and lasting change in the financial industry.

The Mission

MX is on a path to become the trusted default for intelligent money experiences, empowering the world to be financially strong.

That requires us to continue to strengthen our industry leadership position in connectivity and data intelligence, and to become a one-stop-shop solution for our clients and their end-users.

The Senior Software Architect will be a hands-on technology leader who is responsible for providing the architecture, design, and implementation for MX’s differentiated products and services, taking best practices that embody modern, cloud-based, purpose-built design patterns. This role will dramatically raise the standards for technical excellence for MX engineerings in building scalable, secure, and high quality products and services.

Working closely with product and engineering managers, technical ICs, this role serves as a thoughtful multiplier across product engineering delivery teams to deliver strategic roadmap.

This role is critical for delivering on MX’s strategic roadmap and differentiated products that strengthen MX’s competitive advantage.

What Success Looks Like

Bring industry and domain expertise. You bring the latest industry expertise in fintech, Data / AI, Risk / Fraud, and Service Oriented Architecture to engineering. You continuously raise the bar of building and optimizing for scalable, high-quality, cloud-based, industry-leading products and services. This includes but is not limited to :

Lay out the foundational architecture for brand new strategic bets on the product roadmap, help the team make sound tradeoffs and strike the balance between time-to-market and high-quality to launch MVPs.

Instrument and implement best practices to close critical performance gaps in the product for delightful customer experience. Ensure that the SLOs for end-to-end services maintain industry standards and competitiveness.

Be a cross-functional multiplier. You promote cross-team technical alignment. This includes but is not limited to :

Mentor and coach junior engineers to grow in technical skills by thinking about global scale, security, performance and cost efficiency as service owners.

Bring transparency and visibility cross functionally : product, engineering, executives, by articulating technical tradeoffs and risks with clear documentation and artifacts.

Core Responsibilities

Deep technical analysis on strategic product initiatives, lay out foundational architecture and design in MX’s eco-systems. Drive technical implementation of high-quality MVPs.

Identify opportunities for performance improvement on critical products and services and implement solutions to close the gaps.

Analyze and implement improvements of end-to-end data ingest, analytics, and recommend how AI can be leveraged to provide efficiency and competitive advantage.

Drive architecture and design reviews, multiply knowledge and principles to the technical staff. Be an active member of architecture discussions that require rethinking or changing technology approaches, such as cloud strategy.

What You Bring

A skilled, enthusiastic technologist with strategic thinking and business acumen, leading through influence rather than authority.

15+ years of software development experience, with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree.

Fluency with Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, OLT / AP, event-driven architectures.

Expert hands-on knowledge in OAuth, Data Analytics, Risk and Fraud platforms, as well as cloud (AWS, GCP).

Expert hands-on knowledge in defining service SLOs using customer experiences as a north star. Deep understanding of instrumentation at the system level to achieve SLO attainments, with cost efficiency.

Expert hands-on knowledge building services with agility (cycle time) and utilizing CI / CD pipelines for efficient deployability, as well as operability / observability.

Exposure to building and operating software in a heavily regulated industry.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including diagramming and technical documentation.

At MX, we are a high-performance organization that thrives on trust and results. This role is based in Lehi, Utah, with flexibility for both in-office and remote work. We believe in empowering our team members to deliver exceptional outcomes while taking advantage of our incredible office space when it best supports their work. Our Utah office features onsite perks such as company-paid meals, massage therapists, a sports simulator, gym, mother’s lounge, and meditation room and meaningful interactions with amazing people. We encourage team members to come together in the office to collaborate, kick off key projects, or strategize cross-functionally, fostering connection and innovation.

MX is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to hr@mx.com.