Senior Software Developer

Engineering · Full-time · Medellín, Colombia · Remote possible

Job description

Viamericas is a #1 ranked and licensed money transmitter offering international money transfer, bill payment, check processing and a variety of other services at thousands of agent locations across the United States, and over 100,000 locations in 50 countries.  At Viamericas, our ultimate objective is to help immigrants succeed and improve their lives by providing the highest quality financial services.  We are always seeking TOP TALENT – experienced individuals who embrace our core values of respect, innovation, integrity and impact.

This position is a senior role within the software development organization focused on development, design and implementation of product features & enhancements. This role must have a solid understanding of the firm’s business, the product development lifecycle and experience implementing enterprise-class software. We’re looking for someone to create elegant and useful solutions to solve complex business problems by collaborating across various teams, understanding the needs of our business partners, and having product manager mindset to provide solutions to solve those problems. The individual must be driven to achieve results and be proactive. They will be expected to independently anticipate and handle most issues before they become problems and not let things get in the way of achieving the company’s goals.  

Duties and Responsabilities

  • Work with product owners, business owners and UX design teams to define and refine feature specifications, and to deliver high quality solutions on time.
  • Develop well-architected, intuitive and elegant frameworks and features to support scalability and flexibility using best practices and modern software engineering tools.
  • Design and develop front-end interfaces, underlying APIs, and backend systems across a number of programming languages with a focus on JavaScript, C#, SQL Server and NET.
  • Refactor and optimize our code for improved reliability, performance, simplicity and maintainability.
  • Understanding of test driven development, ability to test your own code, and reduce back and forth between development and QA; maintain a “clean code” mindset
  • Working with operations teams to ensure our applications and services are highly available and reliable.
  • Supporting your code as needed and required to keep the operation functioning.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IS, IT or related field.
  • Highly organized and detail oriented with ability to work independently and develop solutions to problems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience working both with peers and more senior executives.
  • Five plus years of experience.
  • Exposure to the FinTech industry desired.
  • Experience or exposure to any of the following technologies is desired: HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, NodeJS, React/Angular.
  • SQL server experience is a must.
  • Experience with AWS.
  • Experience in client-server or n-tier architectures required, service-oriented, RESTful or micro-services experience preferred.
  • Ideally, the candidate has worked in an Agile environment.
  • English Level:
  • CEFC2
  • TOEIC915
  • TOEFL82.5

Conditions of Employment

  • General office working conditions, with a 100% remote work structure. This position may require weekend and evening work as we collaborate with our partner’s internationally on audits and in support of corporate initiatives.
  • Hardware setup for you to work from home.
  • Performance Bonus Eligibility
  • Flexible hours - make your schedule.
  • Diverse and multicultural work environment.
  • An innovative environment with the structure and resources of a leading multinational.
  • Here you can grow at the speed of your learning curve.

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