Principal Software Developer (New York)

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

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.