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Staff Software Engineer (Helix)

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The Staff Software Engineer (Helix) will build and improve the Helix core platform by designing and maintaining backend tools for banking solutions, collaborating within an Agile team, and ensuring security and performance.
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As passionate about our people as we are about our mission.

Why Join Q2?

Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.

What Makes Q2 Special?

Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways, including our “Circle of Awesomeness” award ceremony and day of employee celebration among others! We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, mentorship programs, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun. We hold an annual Dodgeball for Charity event at our Q2 Stadium in Austin, inviting other local companies to play, and community organizations we support to raise money and awareness together.

Q2 is reinventing the entire banking stack to help our users create the next generation of banking. Our team is responsible for the delivery of an real time, cloud-based, FDIC-approved banking core and the back office tools that are needed to support the functions of a banking core. We are looking for a highly motivated and determined individual with exceptional technical knowledge and experience to help us lead the charge in a new era of banking as a service to build the backend tools to support this product. They should be enthusiastic about solving complex problems with large datasets by providing a simple and flexible interface that provides a high level of security for the end user. This is an exciting new opportunity to work in one of our many offices in the US. 
As an Azure full stack Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building robust, high-quality, and scalable solutions that expand and improve our Helix core platform. You’ll be part of a team reinventing how the user interacts with our product.  The ideal candidate should be motivated by driving innovation in how the team develops new code as well as leverages opens source and third-party tools to deliver inventive solutions to our customers in a robust and agile method. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design, implementation, and maintain products using MS SQL, C# .NET Core, Vue.js, python and other modern technologies. 
  • Using the SCRUM framework, work as a team to design, implement and maintain the backend tools used for money movement in the banking solution.  This will include the development of high performant SQL stored procedures to support backend business logic, API layer to expose this back office functions, batch processes to manage and maintain these back office functions, and front end tools to expose the results of the back office functions, in order to deliver a rich featured product to the customer with highly maintainability and expandability.  This includes the development of automated testing and automated deployment needs.
  • Work as a team member to develop and improve the development methods to ensure a highly productive team and development environment 
  • Work closely with other engineers, designers, and management teams to rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new features and products and maintain a high-quality robust code base and testing automation repository
  • Support, maintain, and resolve problems for custom features in live production systems, with occasional on-call availability.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.
  • Assist and mentor teammates to provide technical leadership and evangelize best practices
  • Improve and scale the existing products and tools 
  • Launch new projects from ideation to completion 
  • Monitor and reduce cybersecurity product risk 

 

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree in (relevant degree) and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 6+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience.
  • 8+ years complex SQL and stored procedure programming and C# experience 
  • Strong experience in full-stack development from spec/concept and back-end development 
  • .NET Batch Experience
  • Experience in Azure
  • Strong experience with cloud-based infrastructure 
  • Experience working closely with design and PO individuals/teams
  • Passion for applying good design principals while exercising pragmatism to keep deadlines
  • Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle
  • Experience engineering software in a service-oriented architecture
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Experience contributing in an Agile development environment
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Occasional availability for on-call/emergency support
  • Ability to work flexible hours when necessary for deadlines and off-hours installations

An exceptional individual will have:

  • 8+ years of Advance C# and complex SQL experience 
  • Experience with containerization.
  • Experience scaling technology solutions.
  • Experience with batch processes and multi threading in .Net or .Net core.
  • Strong experience with SOA and microservices development.
  • Strong experience with unit testing and test-driven development 
  • Experience in cybersecurity 

This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.

Health & Wellness

  • Hybrid Work Opportunities

  • Flexible Time Off 

  • Career Development & Mentoring Programs 

  • Health & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents 

  • Community Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs 

  • Employee Peer Recognition Programs – “You Earned it”

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Our Culture & Commitment:

We’re proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare—offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being. Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer. Q2 employees are encouraged to give back through volunteer work and nonprofit support through our Spark Program (see more). We believe in making an impact—in the industry and in the community.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.

Top Skills

.Net Core
Azure
C#
Ms Sql
Python
Vue

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