Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud-Native Microservices

LPL Financial LLC; California; On-site; USD 192,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial LLC is seeking a Senior Engineer, Software Developer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade backend systems in San Diego, CA. You will lead backend architecture, implement microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native solutions using .NET/C# and modern tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, while ensuring SDLC compliance, code reviews, and scalable delivery. Strong communication and mentoring are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT or related field with 5 years of software development and architecture experience.
• Master’s degree with 3 years of software development and architecture experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise software applications and distributed backend systems.
• Experience developing microservices and SOA using .NET, C#, REST APIs, and modern architectural patterns.
• Experience building event-driven and message-based apps using Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar technologies.
• Experience architecting and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, ECR, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, Load Balancers).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) provisioning scripts.
• Experience with Git-based release workflows, branching strategies, code reviews, and production release support.
• Experience designing and managing containerized apps with Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes or AWS EKS.
• Experience unit testing (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest) and SQL queries in SQL Server or PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade backend software and distributed systems.
• Lead design, development, testing, and implementation of scalable backend solutions.
• Build and maintain microservices, REST APIs, and modular components.
• Develop distributed, event-driven systems using .NET, C#, async programming, and integration patterns.
• Integrate enterprise applications using messaging platforms for reliable data processing.
• Provide technical leadership through design/code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Collaborate with product owners, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to logic, performance, and system integration.
• Analyze existing systems to identify optimization, modernization, and automation opportunities.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, IaC scripts, and cloud provisioning.

Skills

C#

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud concepts

CI/CD

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

SQL Server / PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

CloudFormation

Job description

LPL Financial LLC is seeking a Senior Engineer, Software Developer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade backend systems in San Diego, CA. You will lead backend architecture, implement microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native solutions using .NET/C# and modern tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, while ensuring SDLC compliance, code reviews, and scalable delivery. Strong communication and mentoring are valued.