Sr. Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• You have good technical skills and always striving to improve. You will effectively use AI technologies to accelerate development.
• You are passionate about creating world-class software and have a customer-first mindset.
• You think positively, focus on solutions, and find opportunities instead of problems.
• You work to influence parties within function to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• You participate in all phases of the product releases and support of the production after launch as a member of the Agile Scrum team.
• You write high-quality code that models around CI/CD best practices adhering to all architectural illities.
• You build products that perform, scale, are highly available and fault tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• You evangelize and apply good security and performance techniques and effectively lead communications on broad topics.
• You collaborate with product architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to create great product requirements.
• Considering how standards evolve, you make suggestions for improving code quality more broadly within the team and mentor junior engineers.
• You communicate with senior stakeholders within the enterprise on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and/or advising; and bring observations to management and leadership of potential issues.
• You are a good team player with a positive attitude to contribute at all levels for the team's success.

Requirements

• 4 years of solid programming experience building distributed systems using java technologies and a Bachelor's degree or master's degree or a Ph.D without experience.
• Highly experienced in Core Java 8 or above and in concurrent/parallel programming.
• Hands-on experience in using relational database with good exposure to SQL.
• Strong working experience in Spring framework.
• Strong computational skills, fluent in data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of computing concepts such as service-oriented architecture, REST services, fault tolerance, self-healing, network protocols, network programming, multi-threaded programming, performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Ability to differentiate good and bad design and coding practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate things in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong in self-direction, problem solving and critical thinking.
• Unix scripting skills.
• Ability to work effectively on multiple tasks in parallel and positively manage work in an environment where that can be changes in scope of work and timeline.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2.
• Experience with container-based application development using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience and knowledge of AI and LLM tools.
• Experience working in the Payment Industry on credit/debit transactions and knowledge of ISO 8583 is a big plus.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary Range for California Residents Only: $115,800.00 to $156,340.00
• Salary Range for Illinois Residents Only: $89,620.00 to $121,000.00
• Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.
• Benefits include 401k with employer match, medical, dental, vision, 12 paid holidays in 2025, 1 hour of sick pay accrual for every 30 hours worked, parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, accident and illness insurance, health and dependent care flexible spending accounts, wellness benefits, and flexible time off for all full-time employees.