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Senior Software Engineer

Empower · United States · 6 days ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$106k–$149k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer will implement complex software systems, lead significant development projects, and provide technical expertise across software products. This role will contribute to architecture, support innovation, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications and platform capabilities.
  • Design and build modern web applications using React (primary) and Angular (secondary) frameworks, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and maintainability.
  • Develop and support backend services and APIs while collaborating closely with architecture, product, QA, and operations teams.
  • Participate in application design discussions, technical solutioning, and architectural reviews.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical leadership across development initiatives.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine, prioritize, and deliver business requirements in an Agile environment.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and operational runbooks.
  • Conduct code reviews and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and secure development principles.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, and application defects.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of software architecture, CI/CD pipelines, cloud adoption, and development processes.
  • Provide production release support during scheduled release windows, including participation in release activities on designated Sundays (typically every second Sunday).

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in software development with significant full-stack development experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience developing front-end applications using React and Angular.
  • Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating front-end applications with backend services.
  • Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native application development practices.
  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex queries (approximately 6/10 proficiency or higher).
  • Experience working within the Banking, Financial Services, and/or FinTech (BFS) domain.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering principles, application architecture, design patterns, and secure coding practices.
  • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership abilities.
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments utilizing tools like JIRA and Onfluence.

Qualifications

  • Experience developing backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
  • Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud automation.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical applications in a regulated financial services environment.
  • Experience with application monitoring, observability, and production support processes.
  • Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

  • Experience developing full-stack applications using React and Angular.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application development practices.
  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex queries.
  • Experience working within the BFS domain.
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.
  • Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud automation.
  • Experience with application monitoring, observability, and production support processes.
  • Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance. Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, business-casual environment, paid time off, paid volunteer time, leave of absence programs, Business Resource Groups (BRGs), and more.

Pay

Base Salary Range $105,700.00 - $149,275.00. The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance.

Schedule

Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

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