Senior Staff Software Engineer - Charlotte, NC

Job Description:
This position is for the Charlotte work office location
Key Skills: Graph QL, Payments, Backend Engineer
Potential for contract extension or conversion to a full-time position.
Client is the country's largest lending-exclusive financial company, proudly serving millions of customers with safe, affordable and transparent instalment loans. Our customers turn to us every day-online and at over 1,400 branches in 44 states-to help them take control and improve their financial lives. It\'s all about doing the right thing-a mission that hasn\'t changed for more than 100 years.

Job Responsibilities:
Lead end to end architectural design for highly complex systems across the Cards domain, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) for full-stack Cards applications-including backend services, middleware, APIs, and integrations-guiding teams on domain concepts, system behaviour, and best practices.
Perform complex hands-on engineering work, taking ownership of the most challenging coding assignments using technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, and data pipelines.
Lead technical design and solutioning sessions, facilitating collaboration across engineering teams, architects, product owners, and design partners to define robust technical solutions.
Elevate code quality and engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality delivery through strong testing practices, automation, code reviews, and adherence to modern engineering standards.
Design and implement automation strategies including test automation, CI/CD improvements, and observability enhancements to improve reliability and developer productivity.
Experience managing/maintaining distributed systems.
Conversant in many technologies and languages, able to learn new technologies quickly
Proactively applies industry leading technology trends, best practices, design principles and patterns, and methods including Agile software development, iterative delivery, and cloud computing.
Experience and proficiency with cloud platforms and patterns, preferably AWS.
Uses critical thinking to reach conclusions and analytical thinking for problem solving in support of achieving desired outcomes.
Applies enthusiasm for continuous learning to improve results and shares with others.
This position involves progressively more experience and accountability for influencing important technical decisions and supporting their implementation.

Mandatory Skills:
At least 13+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend applications with GraphQL, Node.JS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines and related backend frameworks. Proficiency with Domain Driven Design and Data Modelling.