At Jack Henry, we deliver technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members. Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments. We hope you'll join us. We can't do it without you. 

The Jack Henry Digital Team is redefining the relationship between forward-thinking financial institutions and their customers. Jack Henry Digital leverages modern technology and an industry-leading product vision to make user-friendly mobile and web apps. We have a first-class API; the same API our web and mobile apps use is the same API that is open to the community to build on top of and extend.

The Senior Software Engineer participates and works with our team to build Jack Henry's next generation of services that power a set of critical domains.  These services ultimately power Jack Henry's Open API and our online and mobile banking products. Jack Henry's APIs are first-class citizens and are consumed by both internal teams and organizations outside of Jack Henry Digital.

About Jack Henry Digital

This team is constantly keeping your services up to date with the newest development, deployment, and release practices to offer exciting user experiences with highly secured data. Your team also collaborates with other Jack Henry Digital teams to build tools and processes that help scale our rapidly growing platform.

We are committed to creativity, thoughtfulness, culture, and openness—the perfect place to make phenomenal products that have a big impact. Our work environment echoes a modern tech startup, but we have the security and benefits of a large, publicly traded company. With an engineering team of talented individuals, we place a high value on continued education and contribute to and use open-source projects.

Our team is highly distributed, meaning you will work with kind, talented individuals from across the United States. You’ll get the chance to choose your own tools, work with bleeding-edge web technologies across the stack and contribute to products that are used by thousands of people.

Senior Scala Software Engineer will be joining our Jack Henry Digital Team that is redefining the relationship between forward-thinking financial institutions and their customers. JH Digital leverages modern technology and the industry leading product vision to make user-friendly mobile and web apps. We have a first-class API; the same API our web and mobile apps use is the same API that is open to the community to build on top of and extend. Our team is highly distributed, meaning you will work with kind, talented teams from across the United States. As a Senior Scala Software Engineer, you will get the chance to choose your own tools, work with bleeding edge web technologies across the stack, and contribute to products that are used by thousands of people. You will participate and work with our team to build JH Digital's next generation of services that power a set of critical domains. These services ultimately power JH Digital's Open API and our online and mobile banking products. JH Digital's APIs are first-class-citizens and are consumed by both internal teams and organizations outside of JH Digital. The successful candidate is infinitely curious and thrives in an environment that promotes constantly learning and growing. You want to be somewhere that surrounds you with other great engineers that drive you to be better every day. Although you work in a team you are self-motivated and able to work with independence. You want to own the deliverable from working with the product manager to define the scope all the way through supporting your work in production. You care deeply about your work, your team, and the end user.

This position will be filled to work Remotely within the U.S.

The target salary range for this position is $89,850- $195,250 based on location and experience.

What you'll be responsible for: 

• Complete product technical design and prototyping, software development, bug verification, and resolution.   
• Perform system analysis and programming activities that require research. 
• Provide technical/engineering support for new and existing applications from code delivery until the retirement of the application.   
• Provide reasonable task and project cost/effort estimates. 
• Collaboratively work with QA, TBA, and Product team to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. 
• Collaboratively work with the customer support team to resolve or diagnose defects. 
• Building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and scaling backend services using Scala, relational databases (Postgres), event streaming (Kafka), and more. 
• Working with your engineering teams to identify needs, prioritize and plan work, and develop solutions that keep pace with product development. 
• Gaining a deep and comprehensive understanding of specific banking-related domains your team owns and working with and understanding how changes in those domains impact products.
• A sense of ownership of your deliverables, from working with the product manager to define the scope, all the way through supporting your work in.
• May perform other job duties as assigned.

What you'll need to have: 

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of back-end programming/development experience.  
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with Scala programming.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in maintaining and supporting production systems.
• Self-motivation and ability to work with independence. 
• Ability to travel up to 5% to attend JH meetings, trainings, and/or professional conferences.

What would be nice for you to have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science. 
• Experience with functional programming. 
• Experience using the Typelevel Stack (http4s, doobie, cats, cats-effect). 
• Experience working with Microservices Architecture. 
• Experience with Continuous Integration Pipelines. 
• Experience with observability and monitoring. 
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases. 
• Experience with Kafka and event-based systems. 
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (PaaS/Container orchestration platform).

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement on this positing, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet motivated people who align with Jack Henry's mission and can contribute to our company in a variety of ways.

Why Jack Henry?

At Jack Henry, we pride ourselves through our motto of, "Do the right thing, do whatever it takes, and have fun." We recognize the value of our associates and believe much of our company's strength and success depends on their well-being.

We demonstrate our commitment by offering outstanding benefit programs to ensure the physical, mental & financial well-being of our people is always met.

Culture of Commitment

Ask our associates why they love Jack Henry, and many will tell you it is because our culture is exceptional. We do great things together. Rising to meet challenges and seeking opportunities is part of who we are as an organization. Our culture has helped us stay strong through challenging times and we credit our dedicated associates for our success. Visit our Corporate Responsibility site to learn more about our culture and commitment to our people, customers, community, environment, and shareholders.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Jack Henry, we know we are better together. We value, respect, and protect the uniqueness each of us brings. Innovation flourishes by including all voices and makes our business - and our society - stronger. Jack Henry is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, performance management, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, education, training, social, and recreational activities to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, and military and veteran status, or any other protected status protected by local, state or federal law.

No one will be subject to, and Jack Henry prohibits, any form of discipline, reprisal, intimidation, or retaliation for good faith reports or complaints of discrimination of any kind, pursuing any discrimination claim, or cooperating in related investigations.

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