Staff Software Engineer - Virtual Company
Brookfield, WI 53005
About the Job
Job Title - Senior Staff Software Engineer
Remote - 100%
Terms - Direct Hire
Salary - 140 to 180K
Bonus - 10 to 15%
Package includes - 10% 401K matching, benefits, and 20 PTO Days
No third-party Companies are allowed—all will be rejected. (Please don't waste each other's time.) We can't offer sponsorship now or in the future.
Job Summary
You will work on a team of Product Owners, Software Developers, and Quality Assurance Engineers. You will contribute to the modernization and re-architecture of the systems that drive value for our clients. You can work with different portions of our systems and business, including UI/UX, back-end automation, and embedded business process improvement projects.
Important Note: We are moving away from Azure to AWS, so it would be highly desirable if you have experience migrating work to AWS.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and improve software and other technical solutions for business challenges.
- Play a key role in redesigning our legacy products in AWS
- Champion AWS best practices and mentor team members
- Focus on overall product quality
- Develop and maintain unit and integration tests
- Responsibly self-manage workload given project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Help the team achieve sprint goals through independent work and collaboration.
- Participate in code reviews to promote quality and best practices
- Support code deployments
Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Strong experience with C#, SQL, JavaScript, .NET Framework / .NET Core
- Cloud development experience with AWS
- Understanding of Agile practices (e.g. Scrum)
- Experience with entire software development lifecycle
- Excellent technical design, problem-solving, and debugging skills
- Experience with domain driven design
- Experience with microservice architecture
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Passionate about building high-quality systems with AWS best practices
- Excellent collaborative skills, work well independently and as a team member
- Proven analytical skills to interpret and implement business and functional requirements
- Understanding of the value of test automation and a desire to incorporate it in development practice
What you bring to the table
- A proactive and positive approach to solving problems and correcting issues
- Facilitate collaboration among team members.
- Demonstrated "let's find a way to do it" attitude - no task is too big or too small, always willing to pitch in and help someone else
- Excellent communication skills
- Detail oriented
- Welcomes increased responsibility over time
- They love to learn and take every opportunity to develop knowledge and skills.
- Adapts to an established process, able to move projects along in a timeframe
Wish list
- Continued education and advanced degree(s)
- Experience in environments subject to HIPAA and PCI regulations
- Experience in software-as-a-service, actuarial science, and insurance underwriting industry
- Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
- AWS Certifications
- Understanding of DevOps principles
- Experience with test-driven development
- Experience designing systems in an event-driven architecture
- Experience rebuilding on-prem legacy applications in a modern cloud environment (AWS)
Desired Skills and Experience
AWS, C#, JavaScript, SQL, .NET Core, CI/CD, Terraform, DevSecOps
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
