Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.
The Opportunity
Velera is hiring a Software Engineer III who will serve as a technical leader for a newly formed Agile product delivery team. This is a senior, hands-on engineering role for an individual who brings strong software engineering maturity, technical judgment, and a clear desire to lead, mentor, and elevate others. This position is well suited for an engineer who is innately curious about technology, applies creativity to engineering problems, and actively looks for ways to improve architecture, delivery practices, developer experience, and system quality.
You will contribute across a mix of new product development, modernization initiatives, and ongoing maintenance within a regulated payments environment where security, reliability, and auditability matter. The core technical direction is C# / .NET / .NET Core on Azure, with modern front-end development centered on TypeScript-based frameworks.
Day in the Life:
Work in a fast-paced Agile environment where you will:
- Design, build, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions for payments and related platform capabilities.
- Serve as the team’s technical leader by guiding solution design, driving strong engineering practices, and helping the team deliver high-quality software consistently.
- Contribute hands-on across backend, APIs, integrations, data, and UI work as needed.
- Partner with product, architecture, engineering leadership, and adjacent teams to turn business needs into practical technical solutions.
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design collaboration, technical coaching, and day-to-day leadership.
- Help raise the team’s engineering maturity in areas such as code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, operational readiness, and secure software development.
- Ensure solutions align with regulatory, audit, risk, and security expectations in a financial technology environment.
- Participate fully in Agile delivery and support production operations, troubleshooting, on-call needs, and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Build With (Technology Snapshot)
Velera values engineers who are grounded in a primary stack but comfortable working across modern technologies as solutions evolve.
- Core backend: C#, .NET / .NET Core, Azure
- Modern application development: TypeScript-based technologies across front-end and service layers (e.g., React, Node.js)
- APIs & integration: RESTful APIs and service-oriented integration patterns
- Data: SQL-based databases (Oracle and/or MS SQL)
- DevOps: Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation-first mindset
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and delivering production-grade applications.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a senior engineer, technical leader, or subject matter expert on a software delivery team.
- Strong experience with .NET / C# / .NET Core and API development.
- Experience with modern frontend development, with preference for React.
- Experience with one or more additional modern languages or runtimes such as Node.js / TypeScript.
- Strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs and integrating with enterprise systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices.
- Experience reviewing code and designs for quality, maintainability, performance, and security.
- Strong database experience, including writing and optimizing SQL and working with relational databases such as SQL Server and/or Oracle.
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to iterative delivery.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction through collaboration.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and help elevate team performance.
Preferred Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in a technical lead, team lead, or similar engineering leadership role.
- Experience building applications in Azure cloud environments.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven or integration-heavy architectures.
- Experience with Angular and modernizing UI architectures toward React.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with micro frontends or other scalable frontend architecture patterns.
- Experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or other regulated environments.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.
You Might Be a Great Fit If...
- You enjoy leading technical direction while staying hands-on.
- You care about building stronger teams, not just shipping code.
- You look for better ways to solve problems and improve how work gets done.
- You can work effectively across modern platforms while navigating existing enterprise systems where needed.
- You bring sound judgment, curiosity, and a practical modernization mindset.
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About Velera
At Velera we are committed to fostering a workplace where every employee feels valued, respected, and connected. We understand, attract and engage a diverse workforce where every employee can live up to their full potential; ensuring that our employee base reflects the consumers we serve. The result of this effort is an inclusive environment where diverse talent thrives. We strive to foster a safe and inclusive work environment for people to bring their authentic selves in order to build a better community within our company and with our partners. Learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion HERE!
Pay Equity
$95,800.00 - $124,500.00Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.
Great Work/Life Benefits!
Competitive wages
Medical with telemedicine
Dental and Vision
Basic and Optional Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Maternity, Parental, Family Care
Community Volunteer Time Off
12 Paid Holidays
Company Paid Disability Insurance
401k (with employer match)
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Supplemental Insurance
Mental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Tuition Reimbursement
Wellness program
Benefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions
Velera is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.
Velera is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following "EEO is the Law" Poster. Velera will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information.
Velera is an E-Verify Employer. Review the E-Verify Poster here. For information regarding your Right To Work, please click here.
This role is currently not eligible for sponsorship.
As an ongoing commitment to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities please contact a recruiter at [email protected] for assistance.
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