Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization and an integrated fintech solutions provider. They are hiring a Software Engineer III to serve as a technical leader for an Agile product delivery team, focusing on software development and modernization initiatives in a regulated payments environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions for payments and related platform capabilities
- Serve as the team’s technical leader by guiding solution design, driving strong engineering practices, and helping the team deliver high-quality software consistently
- Contribute hands-on across backend, APIs, integrations, data, and UI work as needed
- Partner with product, architecture, engineering leadership, and adjacent teams to turn business needs into practical technical solutions
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design collaboration, technical coaching, and day-to-day leadership
- Help raise the team’s engineering maturity in areas such as code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, operational readiness, and secure software development
- Ensure solutions align with regulatory, audit, risk, and security expectations in a financial technology environment
- Participate fully in Agile delivery and support production operations, troubleshooting, on-call needs, and continuous improvement
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and delivering production-grade applications
- Demonstrated experience serving as a senior engineer, technical leader, or subject matter expert on a software delivery team
- Strong experience with .NET / C# / .NET Core and API development
- Experience with modern frontend development, with preference for React
- Experience with one or more additional modern languages or runtimes such as Node.js / TypeScript
- Strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs and integrating with enterprise systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices
- Experience reviewing code and designs for quality, maintainability, performance, and security
- Strong database experience, including writing and optimizing SQL and working with relational databases such as SQL Server and/or Oracle
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to iterative delivery
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction through collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and help elevate team performance
- 3+ years of experience in a technical lead, team lead, or similar engineering leadership role
- Experience building applications in Azure cloud environments
- Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven or integration-heavy architectures
- Experience with Angular and modernizing UI architectures toward React
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with micro frontends or other scalable frontend architecture patterns
- Experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or other regulated environments
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality