Software Engineer III (Java/Angular) - REMOTE

Join the People Helping People

Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.
The Opportunity

This position will excel in designing, developing, testing, maintaining, and supporting secure, scalable, and robust full stack Java applications. The candidate will possess a deep understanding of technical issues, adept troubleshooting skills, and the ability to propose and implement enhancements. This role entails collaborating on the development of enterprise solutions and driving initiatives forward.

The incumbent for this position will need an intermediate to advanced development level skillset allowing them to understand complex technologies, systems, standards, and best practices. The incumbent will exhibit a skilled perspective when identifying and delivering effective solutions, capable of working independently with minimal supervision.

Day in the Life

- Work in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment.

- Develop basic to complex Java code & designs to maintain new and existing technology systems following company standards.

- Accountable to develop and deliver technical documentation.

- Undergo peer code and design reviews to ensure stable and high-quality production-ready code.

- Build and maintain full stack Java applications that meet or exceed industry regulatory requirements.

- Foster and maintain high collaboration with team members, other technical colleagues, and business partners from across the organization.

- Ensure compliance with established SDLC frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, release management, and deployment.

- Ability to gradually take on more development tasks as learning increases.

- Exercise discretion and good judgment in making decisions.

- Lead a team with meeting project commitments, such as project goals, objectives, and corresponding delivery dates.

- Provide engineering leadership and mentorship to junior level engineers that are globally dispersed.

- Ensure compliance with all the audit and security requirements of the company.

- Review code for complex maintainability, coding standards and security issues.

- Participate and follow established Agile standards (including attending all Agile events) to create a collaborative and efficient development environment and meet project goals and delivery dates.

- Foster innovation to improve on existing challenges and to realize new opportunities.

- Effectively collaborate with Architects to develop and review intended solutions.

- Ability to travel as needed to perform position responsibilities.

- Availability to be on-call as needed

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related technology field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Seven years professional work experience in software development required. (Java)

- Two years of experience performing as a subject matter expert.

- Proficiency in using Angular to code the UI

- Proficiency as a Java full-stack software engineer preferably with knowledge in two or more modern programming languages. Years of experience may be offset by having proficiency in one or more highly specialized technologies or skills.

- Advanced technical skills developing API’s, frontend, backend, data development, and architecture.

- Thorough understanding of databases, including creation of basic to complex database SQL statements.

- Proficiency of computer engineering fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structur