Senior Staff Engineer - Financial Substantiation Platform *Hybrid*

About the role

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the design, build, and scale of the Substantiation Platform, which includes systems that validate and reconcile financial data across enterprise sources. This role involves working closely with Finance, Compliance, Product, the Financial Data Warehouse, and ERP-aligned teams to deliver reliable reconciliation services, clear data lineage, and integrate source systems with financial reporting and GL-related ERP workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership for substantiation and reconciliation services, APIs, and related data paths.
• Build scalable, secure, highly available software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including evolution away from legacy reconciliation and financial systems.
• Own solutions end-to-end—design through production—including quality, reliability, performance, and observability.
• Align with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Treasury on requirements and operational outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning; influence leadership at multiple levels through clear articulation of tradeoffs and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, C#, or Go.
• Microservices / SOA, REST and gRPC (or comparable APIs), solid SQL and relational design at scale.
• Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, containers, IaC, and production DevOps/observability practices.
• Proven architecture and design for distributed, data-heavy systems; strong production troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical partners; Agile delivery experience.
• Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, including troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions under pressure.
• Experience 10+ years software development with staff/principal-level impact.
• 8+ years leading architecture and large initiatives with cross-functional technical leadership.
• 6+ years cloud-native / distributed systems in production.
• 5+ years high-volume data, reconciliation, or financial/payments/ledger-adjacent systems.
• 4+ years major cloud platform.
• Preferred: Financial services / insurance; ERP/GL familiarity. Kafka / Snowflake / Airflow; Python/PySpark/Snowpark a plus.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.

Location

(hybrid) Bethesda, MD Dallas, TX

Pay

Annual Salary $120,000.00 - $260,000.00

Schedule

Hybrid