AssetMark

Financial Services

StaffDevExEngineer

$175–219k Charlotte, North Carolina, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff DevEx Engineer at AssetMark. Skills: Developer Experience, Cloud Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code. Define technical roadmap. Establish standards and best practices”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate software delivery; Scale with business growth; Improve engineering velocity; Improve engineering reliability

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

15+ years software/platform engineering experience, Proven experience leading platform engineering initiatives, Experience designing cloud-native infrastructure, Experience mentoring engineers, Hands-on engineering background, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to Have

Experience evaluating AI-enabled engineering tooling, Financial services experience preferred

What You'll Do.

Define technical roadmap

Establish standards and best practices

Lead architecture decisions

Shape platform strategy

Drive modernization efforts

Serve as technical escalation point

Design scalable developer workflows

Lead initiatives for test environments

Improve onboarding experiences

Improve local development experiences

Improve testing experiences

Improve deployment experiences

Improve observability experiences

Partner with engineering teams

Automate repetitive tasks

Drive adoption of platform capabilities

Evaluate AI-assisted tooling

Integrate AI workflow automation

Collaborate with engineering teams

Collaborate with architecture teams

Collaborate with product teams

Collaborate with infrastructure teams

Collaborate with security teams

Collaborate with operations teams

Translate business goals

Influence engineering direction

Participate in strategic planning

Support incident response

Perform root cause analysis

Drive continuous improvement

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Application engineering teams; Platform engineering teams; Architecture teams; Product teams; Infrastructure teams; Security teams; Operations teams

Communication Scope

Technical guidance; Written specifications

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning, Agile, Scrum

Full Job Description

## **Job Description:** AssetMark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. AssetMark's mission is to enable financial advisors to make a profound difference in the lives of their clients. Over 10,000 advisors partner with AssetMark for our investment offerings, innovative technology, advanced services, and expertise, which they use to delight their clients and grow their businesses. **The Opportunity** AssetMark is seeking a Staff Engineer to help lead our Developer Experience team. This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for and owning significant platform capabilities, driving architectural decisions, and establishing technical standards that enable our entire engineering organization. You'll work on transformational initiatives including automation, deployment frameworks, and developer workflows that accelerate software delivery across the organization, while mentoring other engineers and ensuring our technology foundation scales with business growth. **We can only consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.** **Key Responsibilities** **Technical Leadership & Platform Strategy** * Define and drive the technical roadmap for Developer Experience and Cloud Platform Engineering initiatives * Establish standards, patterns, and best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling * Lead architecture decisions for cloud-native deployment platforms and internal developer platforms * Shape platform strategy through both written specifications and hands-on code implementation * Drive modernization efforts across GitHub workflows, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices * Serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform reliability, scalability, and operational issues * Mentor engineers and help raise the overall engineering maturity of th

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