Position: Senior Software Engineer

Department: Information Technology, Product Development Team

Type: Full time, On-site

Location: Bloomington, MN

Benefits: Employee Healthcare Benefits, Life and AD&D Insurance, Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, 401(k) Plan

At Vanco, we offer our clients solutions that allow them to accept credit, debit and other electronic payments securely and seamlessly. As a market Leader, we work primarily to meet specialized payment needs for more than 20,000 nonprofits and school systems. These values guide our relationships with clients, partners and each other, every day:

Act with integrity

Maintain transparency

Focus on who we serve

Create a positive workplace

We are seeking an ambitious Senior Software Engineer who shares our passion for writing high quality code and building great software for Vanco. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the Product Team. The Product Team is responsible for providing world-class products to the company and the company’s clients. This includes designing, creating, maintaining, and supporting software for every application used by the company, ensuring all elements of quality are met throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, and keeping the data as secure as possible.

In order to provide world-class products to the company, the Product Team works in an Agile environment. This ensures alignment of priorities and increments of value are ready to deliver each sprint. Our practice of the Scrum methodology allows us to achieve a high level of performance and quality.

In order to accomplish their mission, the Product Team is committed to utilizing best-in-class tools and solutions as well as implementing the latest and best processes. The Product Team will develop solutions that scale as easily and efficiently as possible in order to control costs and resource requirements as the business needs grow.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with, learn from, mentor and train developers inside and outside of the team, encouraging a mindset of continuous improvement and adaptability to changing conditions and priorities. You will be responsible for effectively analyzing complex problems within a product and complicated problems between products, perform risk and impact analysis, and recommend solutions by balancing the competing interests of simplicity, thoroughness, consistency, and innovation. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead technical design for products that affect their team’s current architectures. You will be responsible for technical and non-technical documentation. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will refine the development onboarding program and ensure team adoption through training and mentoring. You will be actively engaged in all Product Team events. Finally, as a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide support to all internal customers in their use of our systems including our products and APIs.

Our team believes in a respectful and collaborative approach to development. We ask questions and give advice and realize our work is better as a team than on our own.

Who you are:

Your degree is a BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of training and experience

You have knowledge of software development best practices and principles, including Agile methodologies

You have strong analysis and problem-solving skill

You are self-directed, detail oriented, creative problem solver

You are flexible to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and priorities

You can apply technology solutions to business problems

You must have strong multi-tasking skills

Overall you have:

5 or more years of overall software development experience

2 or more years in server-side Java, Springboot, Groovy, Hibernate, Hazelcast/Redis, Rabbit/Active MQ or other similar tools

2 or more years working with or designing RESTful APIs

2 or more years of experience developing web applications

2 or more years of experience with relational databases, including MySQL, database design and best practices

1 or more years working in a Linux environment

It’s a bonus if you have experience with test-driven development and unit testing, JSON, Git and Jira. It would be great if you were familiar with Payment Card Industry standards as well.

What we offer:

Opportunities to develop Leadership skills

Competitive benefits and pay

Ability to work on products using new emerging technologies

Small collaborative teams where you can impact both product and culture

Learning opportunities supported by LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight

Volunteer opportunities organized by the company

Join a rapidly growing company that promotes internally

Vanco is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.