About this role
Opportunity Overview
As a Solution Engineer you will work in and across multiple teams, helping your colleagues overcome the most difficult engineering challenges they face. SEs spend most of their time with hands on keys working on the most challenging problems their teams face, especially proving feasibility and patterns, you also spend time helping others make tradeoffs. You will help your teams design tests to validate assumptions and tradeoffs of different solution options. You will mentor senior engineers, teaching them skills that will in turn help them mentor others more effectively. Solution Engineers are advanced, technical experts with 10 years of experience in leading development projects of significant scope and scale, requiring deep solution knowledge and confidence within the engineering space.
What You'll Do
- Problem-Solving & Technical Analysis: Solve complex technical challenges by identifying and gathering critical information, analyzing intricate systems, and clearly communicating findings and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Decision-Making & Technical Leadership: Exercise autonomy in developing and implementing solutions to complex engineering challenges, determining the technical approach to achieve product objectives, and enabling teams to effectively address high-impact, repeatable problems where accuracy and sound judgment are critical.
- Span of Influence & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Influence technical decision-making across multiple engineering teams within a matrixed product organization, partnering with product managers, scrum masters, engineers, quality engineers, site reliability engineers, and UX professionals to identify and address the most complex technical challenges while providing guidance and expertise that scales across the broader organization.
Position Requirements
What Experience You Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Management Information Systems preferred or related work experience.
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in a variety of technical fields including software and infrastructure engineering is required. This experience gives you deep understanding of the full stack required to deliver and operate software.
- Ability to multi-task and participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects.
- A deep understanding of operating critical & enterprise hardened production systems. A deep understanding of Observability to reduce toil and improve MTTR during incidents.
- Fluent in multiple programming languages and development stacks. Knowledge of multiple systems to design more resilient and maintainable solutions. Strong expertise in Java or JavaScript required.
- Expert in test automation with demonstrated mastery of code level unit and integration tests. Responsibility includes mastery over various strategies of how to test complex and distributed systems through automation.
- A highly effective mentor; having a positive, solution-oriented attitude, along with great communication skills is required. This role will model the values of being a lifelong learner by continuing to learn new things and share those with your teammates. SEs will help develop other mentors by teaching experienced engineers how to pass on their skills more effectively.
- Expert in design patterns, Domain Driven Design and scalable Microservices. Experience with distributed caching, event-driven and streaming frameworks preferred.
- Experienced in designing and building highly scalable, distributed & secure solutions that run in a cloud environment such as Azure.
- Experienced in both relational and non-relational data stores.
Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.
Company Description
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Awards and Accolades
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
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EEO Statement
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Salary Information
Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account.
Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.