Senior Software Engineer

Värde Partners is seeking a talented, hands-on software engineer to join us on our journey to modernize our strategic technology platform.

As a Värde Software Engineer, you will be utilizing your skills and experience to build technical solutions using the latest cloud and web-based technologies.

Värde is in the midst of a technical transformation as we migrate to the cloud leveraging AWS services and greatly improve our user experience with React.

The role will be located in either Värde’s Minneapolis or New York office and will report to the Head of Software Engineering also based in Minneapolis.

If solving complex business problems using the latest technologies excites you, then this could be the opportunity for you.

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

Summary of Responsibilities

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies
• Design and develop cutting-edge, cloud-native applications in AWS
• Build modern, responsive web applications in React to satisfy stakeholders and excite customers
• Work with product owners and business analysts to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Contribute code to the development of multi-platform application systems, through local builds and deployments as well as the CI / CD environments through to production
• Develop a strategy to modernize our existing on-prem technology stack utilizing a multipronged approach of CI / CD, lift and shift, and replatforming in the cloud
• Ensure adherence to Agile team norms and coding standards, software design best practices, architecture strategy, and intent
• Stay on top of technology trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, and mentor other members of the technology team
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in full stack enterprise development
• B.S. or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar
• Minimum 3 years of development experience in the financial services domain preferred
• Extensive experience through all phases of software development and delivery including analysis, design, architecture, development, testing, and release
• Expertise in the Microsoft .NET platform
• Expertise in C#
• Experience implementing automated unit and integration tests
• Deep knowledge of distributed version control systems (GitHub)
• Experience with the Atlassian stack (Confluence, Jira)
• Experience using agile methodologies for software development and delivery
• Experience in utilizing and maintaining automated pipelines for code build, configuration, test, and deploy
• Ability to create technical documentation including architecture, design, test, user manuals, support manuals, and run books
• Experience leading development projects and teams
• Experience providing level two support of production systems
• Ability to interact with members of the business across all levels and functions
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented and able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment. Ability to multitask and prioritize among many time-sensitive demands
• Possess characteristics that include resourcefulness, solid problem resolution skills, and the ability to deal effectively with people in a variety of relationships and situations
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Desired skills in one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) or deep experience leveraging and integrating infrastructure building blocks (compute, storage, message queues, API’s, caches, events, etc.). AWS preferred

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