Staff Software Engineer

About the role

The Staff Software Engineer will be a critical addition to our core Reporting team, focusing on corporate banking capabilities. They will lead efforts and contribute to building high-quality scalable computer software systems, participating in the design process from beginning to end. They will lead decisions to achieve our strategic product goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications, with a primary focus on backend development (approximately 60% backend / 40% frontend)
• Manage complex report execution, viewing, and exports, including data synchronization between OLB banking data and ERP systems
• Achieve deep technical domain knowledge and ownership of multiple product features end-to-end
• Manage complex reporting processes including execution, viewing, and exporting reports across OLB banking data and ERP systems
• Be a key strategic player involved in maintenance of product features, including on call escalations, triaging, and resolution
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and debugging
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Enhance development tools, test coverage, and/or code structure
• Lead mentoring and technical support to junior engineers, providing technical oversight for a team of 6 core engineers
• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime
• Maintain clear and proactive communication with customers and vendors to ensure a positive, collaborative relationship
• Facilitate cross-functional coordination with internal teams to ensure seamless data flow and reporting accuracy
• Exemplify self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines, while adapting to new challenges without supervision
• Establish and maintain development standards within the team
• Champion an API-first approach to software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility
• Lead adoption of AI-driven engineering practices, enabling large-scale code modernization, specification-driven development, and efficient agency workflows across teams
• Participate in on call rotation

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years of related experience in software development; or a related field; or 7 years and an advanced degree
• Strong programming skills in .NET/C#, with Java experience also acceptable, and proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Strong experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js or Angular (preferred), React, HTML, and CSS
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure
• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver value independently
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input at a staff level
• Proven experience in monitoring and supporting production systems, with proficiency in identifying and resolving issues, implementing proactive measures, and measurement tracking
• Advanced experience optimizing system performance, including the ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks and implement performance improvements
• Advanced experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, coupled with caching mechanisms. Includes designing data structures, optimizing, and maintaining systems, as well as effective caching strategies to enhance performance and responsiveness
• Advanced strategies for developing tests including unit tests, UI automation tests, integration tests
• Experience building and deploying applications using Kubernetes
• Experience in Open telemetry
• Experience in cross platform mobile development frameworks like Flutter

Preferred Experience & Education

• Master’s degree in engineering, technology or related field
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services using Kubernetes