Software Engineer Principal

Summary

Join Pathward, a hybrid, remote-office financial empowerment company, as a Software Engineer. You will analyze, design, modify, and program software enhancements and new products. Responsibilities include writing code, performing testing and debugging, completing documentation, and interacting with users. A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 8+ years of related experience are required. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and specific technologies is also needed. Pathward offers a competitive salary, annual performance-based incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle, preferably Agile/Lean
• Experience with the following technologies is expected, but not all are required: General knowledge of .NET, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Classic ASP, VB Script, Entity Framework, WPF, JavaScript, IIS, HTML, CSS, XML/XSLT, MSMQ, and NServiceBus required
• 5+ years of banking or financial services and products domain experience. Comparable domain experience will also be considered
• Prior experience transitioning from traditional on-premises solutions to AWS
• Expertise with modern financial systems and auxiliary processes to improve performance, scalability, and extensibility, meeting specific business capabilities and non-functional requirements

Responsibilities

• Uses current programming language and technologies
• Writes code and completes programming
• Performs testing and debugging of applications
• Completes documentation of procedures for installation and maintenance
• Interacts with users to define system requirements and/or to add necessary modifications
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred
• 8+ years professional software design and development experience preferred
• Experience with Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Git, or other source control tools preferred
• Strong Understanding of Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Flask)
• Expert in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Perl
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Proficient with creating AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda)
• Experience in implementation of a new modern core banking system and large migration of the existing core is a plus

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off