Chemical Engineer

Financial Advisors Plus; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real mentorship

Lasting benefits

Flexible work options

Job summary

Financial Advisors Plus in Richmond, VA is seeking a Chemical Engineer to lead Team Leadership systems under pressure, blending hands-on engineering with strategic oversight.

You will guide senior initiatives, tune databases, scale MongoDB, mentor juniors, and drive crisp acceptance criteria for Angular tickets. This role offers mentorship, benefits, and real flexibility in a Richmond office.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience guiding senior-level initiatives.
• Clear written communication across teams and emails.
• Entrepreneurial attitude with eagerness to learn new skills.
• Discipline to over-share early and adjust later.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Sketch GitHub Actions sequence diagrams for clear tech flow.
• Hunt down unexplained latency spikes.
• Lead technical design reviews for senior initiatives.
• Turn vague tickets into crisp, testable Angular acceptance criteria.
• Scale MongoDB services from Richmond to VA-wide rollout.
• Trace bugs across services to a single bad line.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to code-review culture.

Skills

Leadership experience

Written communication

Entrepreneurial attitude

Multitasking

Job description

Half craft, half stubbornness, our Chemical Engineer role asks you to make Team Leadership systems behave under pressure they were never promised. The bargain is plain — your 6 years and Terraform for $98,000 - $139,000, plus a technology team that hands over the reins.

Key Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Financial Advisors Plus workloads
• Sketch GitHub Actions sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Financial Advisors Plus can explain
• Lead technical design reviews for senior technology initiatives
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Angular acceptance criteria
• Scale Financial Advisors Plus's MongoDB services from Richmond pilot to VA-wide rollout
• Trace a relentlessly-kind technology bug across three Work Ethic services to the one bad line
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture

What You'll Bring

• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Proven leadership experience guiding senior-level initiatives
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• An entrepreneurial attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Strong multitasking ability without sacrificing quality

Founded in Richmond, VA during a downturn, Financial Advisors Plus grew fiercely-supportive and lean while flashier technology rivals burned out. Our Richmond office prizes the quiet contributor who makes everyone around them measurably better.

We offer $98,000 - $139,000 and the things money cannot fake

• real mentorship
• lasting benefits
• flexibility you will actually use