Sr. Full-Stack Developer
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Leverage AI (such as Cursor and Claude) to accelerate the design, implementation, and documentation of applications and integrations supporting capabilities across the bank (e.g., client onboarding, payments, fraud detection, servicing, etc.). Design and build responsive, interactive user interfaces using modern frameworks like React or Angular, ensuring a seamless user experience across devices.
Architect, develop and maintain robust server-side logic, integrations and microservices/APIs using C# and/or Python. Manage the complete software process from initial concept and prototyping, application design, development, and CI/CD pipelines. Work closely with the Cloud Infrastructure team to ensure application deployment per environment, monitoring and FinOps awareness. Providing appropriate documentation for design reviews as well as handoffs to TechOps team for deployment and production monitoring.
Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software while optimizing for speed, scalability, and security.
Qualifications
Required Skills
AI Tooling Mastery: Proven experience using Cursor, Claude, or GitHub Copilot to support the full development lifecycle, including design exploration, implementation, testing, and documentation and to deliver code faster than traditional methods. Demonstrated application of thoughtful prompt engineering and structured interaction patterns to produce reliable, maintainable code.
Technical Proficiency
Strong command of C#/.NET and Python for backend services, integrations, automation workflows and building RESTful APIs.
Frontend Expertise
Solid understanding of secure web & mobile UI applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and at least one modern frontend framework (e.g., React).
Data Management
Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, BLOB storage, caching mechanisms, and pub-sub event driven architectures.
Infrastructure
Experience with the Azure cloud platform (preferred) or AWS. Experience with Docker & Kubernetes required. Proficiency in version control systems such as Git or GitHub.
Business Knowledge
Experience in the Financial Services domain is required. Commercial banking, consumer banking, lending, and/or payments is preferred.
Soft Skills
A "doer" mindset--the ability to move on clarity rather than waiting for absolute certainty.
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering. Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Full-Stack Developer, including demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor. Proven experience working with frontend web-based UIs, microservices architectures, API design principles (RESTful services), containerization, and orchestration technologies.
Preferred Experience
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering. Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines and a minimum of 3 years working in a banking, payments or financial services vertical.
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