Senior Software Engineer

The Software Development Engineer role is a 100% Fully Remote Position About defi SOLUTIONS: It’s an exciting time to join defi! defi SOLUTIONS is a pioneer in end-to-end, SaaS loan originations, servicing, and managed servicing solutions. Our customers include the highest volume captive auto lenders, banks, credit unions, and finance companies in North America. We have more than three decades of experience helping lending reduce time-to-market, streamline operations and customer lending processes with proven, scalable performance. Learn more at defisolutions.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Position Purpose:

The Software Development Engineer is responsible for creating complex, critical and rewarding financial business applications used by high profile financial institutions. As a software application provider, the timeliness and success of your application development is paramount to the companies reputation and success. Software development is not a support function in our company - it is our Business!

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Designs, codes, installs, runs, and maintains application software programs.
• Assists in design, coding, and installation of application enhancement projects.
• Analyzes specifications for application enhancements for compatibility with other systems and within operating guidelines.
• Analyzes dumps, debugs problems and applies fix procedures.
• Prepares documentation for use by computer operations, applications programming, and user personnel.
• Provides technical assistance and information.
• Assists with the training of application programming and user personnel in the use of the software and systems.
• Reviews new designs, enhancements and programs with supervisor and application programmers for operating efficiencies.
• Performs data conversions and data conversion analysis.

**Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent in work experience.
• Requires 3 -5 years experience with web application development.
• Agile development methodology

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Experience with Auto finance
• Knowledge of and coding on financial systems software, especially lease and loan financial calculations.
• Experience with Lease or Loan data conversion.
• Experience with the ASP.NET MVC stack, ASP.NET core.
• Experience with JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX, promises.
• Experience with HTML5, CSS3 and responsive UI design
• Extensive experience with full-lifecycle development (i.e. design, coding, testing, debugging, etc.).
• Experience with distributed systems, C#, ASP.NET, REST and SQL programming & Linq
• Experience developing or working with web services (REST and Web API preferred)
• Experience with test driven development (TDD), dependency injection (DI) and mocking frameworks

Additional Eligibility Requirements:

• A superior knowledge of programming (i.e. program design, flowcharting, coding, testing, debugging, etc).
• Ability to solve problems that require extensive data gathering, investigation, review, and analysis to define the problem and then develop/implement solutions, which requires the use of complex analytical techniques and innovative thinking.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret complex business or technical subjects; must be able to discuss or explain this data with others, either internal or external to defi Solutions.
• A superior knowledge of how to document program design, coding, and maintenance.
• A superior understanding of how critical project completion is to client satisfaction.
• The ability to interact and communicate with external, as well as, internal clients for the purpose of data gathering and design initiation.
• Ability to resolve and follow up on software support issues.
• Experience with client-side controls like jQuery UI, Kendo UI, VUE.js
• Experience with modern programming techniques (i.e. fluent, async)
• Experience with Git & TFS
• Experience with Webpack, ES6, TypeScript
• Experience with Azure (focused on Virtual Machines, API Management and app monitoring using Application Insights).
• Experience with Azure DevOps in the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is a plus.
• Troubleshooting skills (with tools like Fiddler, SQL profiler, browser’s Developer Tools and logging).