Software Engineer, Senior

30 Jun 2024

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When you join Sallie Mae, you become a champion for all students.

We're on a mission to power confidence as students begin their unique journey. To help them plan their higher education, successfully finish, and prepare for life after school. To help them Start smart. Learn big.

Students need guidance navigating this important time in their life. They need someone who acknowledges that their education path is unique. They need a partner willing to evolve and not only meet but surpass their expectations. We're changing. Because students need a better way.

We're looking for people who are excited to drive this transformation. To break barriers and think of new ways to adapt, help, and create better experiences for students-and for each other.

This is where diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives matter. It's where you're empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

Feeling your best allows you to do your best. Our benefits take care of the whole you-from physical and mental to financial and professional. You'll get opportunities to further your education and career, support for you and your family (including your pets!), paid time off to volunteer for the things that matter to you, and more.

We're obsessed with impact and making a real difference. For us, that means putting relationships first, asking "why not?" when tackling challenges, and continuously learning new skills.

Come do more than join something, change something. For students, for future generations, for the future of education.

What You'll Contribute

As part of the Application Delivery team you will build applications that provide modern and intuitive user experiences that delight our customers, continue our Agile and DevOps transformation, work to migrate applications to the cloud, build cloud native solutions, and work with other top developers in building solutions that scale in a high-volume transactional environment.

What You'll Do
  • Works in iterative sprints to drive the design, development and testing of solutions. Builds automation and tests to streamline the code to cash pipeline. Refactors new and legacy code as we work towards eliminating technical debt. (60%)
  • Collaborates with agile teams to identify approach, dependencies, tasks, and seek opportunities for automation. Leads other team members, helps recruit and onboard other top-talented developers. (20%)
  • Continually improves craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technology. Leads training and Communities of Practice (CoPs), and reads related materials to stay ahead of the technology curve. (20%)

The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job; it is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees in this role.

What You Have

Minimum: Indicate minimum education, skills and experience required.

  • College Degree or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience as a full-time software developer or engineer.
  • 3 - 5 years full stack development.
  • 3 - 5 years of experience:
    • C# .NET backend development and strong knowledge of .NET platform.
    • Fluent in two or more programming languages: C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.
    • Designing, developing and consuming RESTful, SOAP and GraphQL based web services for mission critical, high volume systems.
  • Basic understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR), its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds.
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as git.
  • Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and experience working in Agile methodologies.
  • Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.
  • Experience working with automated testing platforms.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and work well with peers and management.
  • Skill for writing reusable and platform libraries.
  • Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing.
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
  • Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable and highly available application.
  • Strong understanding and experience writing unit tests.

Preferred: The "nice to haves" regarding education, skills, and experience.
  • Programming experience multiple scripting and programming languages and supporting technologies such as React, AWS, Java, Python, R, Ruby, Go, bash, Swift, Azure DevOps.
  • Hands on experience with functional programming languages.
  • Software architecture experience.
  • Test driven development (TDD) experience.
  • Experience with Event Driven and event sourced architectures leveraging microservices.
  • Experience designing/developing robust API's for mission critical, high volume systems. (RESTful, GraphQL, AWS API Gateway)
  • Strong experience with AWS storage components S3 & Glacier.
  • Experience working in financial services industry, regulated compliance environment.
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  • ID: #43705378
  • State: Indiana Indianapolis 46201 Indianapolis USA
  • City: Indianapolis
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-30
  • Deadline: 2022-08-28
  • Category: Et cetera