Sr. Software Development Engineer

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Regional strives to positively impact the financial lives of our customers.

For over 35 years, our Team Members have been passionate about supporting customers through their financial challenges in life. They take pleasure in finding solutions and lending a helping hand, both to our customers and our communities. As we continue to grow and become a national brand in consumer financing, we hope you'll consider us for future career opportunities.

If you are looking to make a meaningful impact in people's lives by bringing a personal touch to finances, join our team today!

The Software Development Engineer implements cost-effective technology solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications that support RMC business. Coordinates with business stakeholders to determine requirements. Reviews systems under development and related documentation. Creates prototypes, codes, tests, debugs, documents and implements software applications. The Software Development Engineer will also work to identify and propose IT software solutions that add value to business processes.

You will be able to prioritize well, communicate clearly and have a strong track record of delivery and outstanding software engineering skills. You are also someone who loves to learn and is seeking better ways to do things. You are someone who understand the team's development approach, code management processes, and uses quality metrics (reported by Software QA engineering) to identify gaps.

We are technology agnostic and are primarily looking for strong programmers. While we currently work in a mostly Microsoft tech stack (.Net), we are expanding our use of open source and are currently developing digital assets using python and Django. In addition, we are building out an automated CI/CD pipeline to improve our abilities to automated testing and ship code to production more efficiently. Last but not least, you are excited about system design as we are in the process of refactoring our code to move to a service-based architecture.

Duties and responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge of new software solutions using various methodologies e.g. Waterfall, Agile, RAD.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C# code according to business requirements.
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development by partnering with digital product managers and business SMEs.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Modifying, expanding and enhancing existing software applications using .Net (C#).
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues located to a single service.
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose cross service issues, sometimes with help from more senior engineers.
• Work closely with digital product managers and testers to write, test, and deploy code safely into production as frequently as necessary.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Communicating with a team that includes analysts, engineers, quality assurance testers and business stakeholders in order to coordinate and document application development and testing.
• Manages and coordinates urgent and complicated software support issues.
• Attends to both business and technical considerations when designing solutions to project/team or company related issues.
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within their team's projects before they require escalation. Ensures expectations with their team and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Continuously improve development practices by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues
• Determine root cause of software issues and communicate appropriately to internal and external customers.
• Advise management on software reliability situations that may require additional client support or escalation.
• Keep confidential all applicant, client, and verification and company proprietary information.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products.
• Other duties as assigned by leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software lifecycle development experience
• Strong experience with current development frameworks including .NET, C#
• Experience developing web applications using React and Python is a plus.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Fluent with functional, imperative and object-oriented languages

• In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g., SQL, Oracle)
• Knack for writing clean, readable C# code.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git, Bit Bucket, etc.
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Must pass drug screen and other pre-employment screenings

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree and/or technical certifications.

• Previous experience in consumer finance industry.
• Financial Services Background helpful.

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Regional is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, uniform service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law ("Protected Characteristics"). Regional's policy of non-discrimination applies to all phases of the employment process and relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions and opportunities; transfers; social and recreational programs; layoff; and terminations.