Job Description

Grow Your Career. Impact Lives. Shape the Future of Consumer Finance.

At Regional Finance, growth is more than a strategy. It's an opportunity for our people to thrive. Over the past several years, we have expanded significantly, creating new career paths, leadership opportunities, and professional development experiences across our organization.

As a proud NYSE-listed company, we serve more than half a million active customers through a network of 360+ branches across 20 states and a rapidly growing digital platform. With approximately $2.1 billion in net finance receivables, nearly double our position in 2020, our momentum reflects both the strength of our business and the dedication of our team.

If you're passionate about helping people, driven by growth, and excited to contribute to a company transforming the future of consumer finance, we invite you to join our team and build something meaningful with us.

Job purpose

The Software Development Engineer implements cost-effective technology solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications that support RMC business. Develops information systems by studying operations; designing, developing, and installing software solutions.

Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills. Creative engineering balanced with high quality and a customer focus. Must be able to work across multiple facets of the project and juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time.

Strong analytic capability and the ability to create innovative solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is looking to grow their career in a fast paced environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
• First and foremost, developing software our users need
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
• Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Be a persistent, creative problem solver
• Remain cool and effective in a crisis
• Stay on the leading edge of development practices
• Passionate about great technologies, especially open source
• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software lifecycle development experience
• Strong experience with current development frameworks including .NET, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS, Python, Django.
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations
• Fluent with functional, imperative and object-¬oriented languages
• In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. SQL, Oracle)
• Knack for writing clean, readable code
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like GitHub, Bit Bucket, etc.
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Must pass drug screen and other pre-employment screenings

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree and/or technical certifications.
• Previous experience in consumer finance industry.
• Financial Services Background helpful.

Critical Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adjust to a rapidly changing work environment.
• Works in a collaborative environment, Self-Organized, Execution Driven, ability to multi-task

Working conditions

This position primarily works in an office environment, sitting at a desk, working on a computer.

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Regional is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, uniform service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristics”). Regional’s policy of non-discrimination applies to all phases of the employment process and relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions and opportunities; transfers; social and recreational programs; layoff; and terminations.