Senior Scala Software Engineer

As a Scala Engineer for the Banno Platform at Jack Henry, you’ll get the chance to make a positive impact on people’s lives. Our mission is to give people the best possible experience they can have with their finances. The Scala Engineer creates highly scalable APIs to normalize access to multiple banking systems for use in our mobile and online banking clients. Scala engineers develop and support production systems, utilizing tools like cats, fs2, http4s, doobie, and more. You’ll work on a team deploying and monitoring their own services.

We are committed to creativity, thoughtfulness, and openness. Our team is highly distributed, meaning you will work with kind, talented engineers from across the United States. You’ll get the chance to contribute to products that are used by hundreds of thousands of people. Occasional travel may be required for professional development conferences or company meetings.

LOCATIONS

This position will be filled out of Cedar Falls, IA, Des Moines, IA, Springfield, MO or 100% remote.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 6 years of any programming experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Microservice Architecture in a production environment is helpful but not required.
• Experience with Scala in a production environment is helpful but not required.
• Experience with the cats or scalaz, http4s, and doobie libraries is helpful but not required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Completes product technical design and prototyping, software development, bug verification and resolution.
• Performs system analysis and programming activities which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Provides technical/engineering support for new and existing applications from code delivery until the retirement of the application.
• Provides both individual and budget-level tasks and product effort estimates/costs.
• Ensures timely, effective, and quality delivery of software into production, both at an individual and team level.
• Develops and tests applications based on business requirements and industry best practices.
• Creates required technical documentation.
• Adheres to documented departmental and corporate standards. Participates in the definition and documentation of standards.
• Collaboratively works with QA team to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Collaboratively works with customer support team to resolve or diagnose defects.
• Performs release validation testing and beta support for projects.
• Researches problems and develops solutions to the problems.
• Conducts unit testing and integration testing for functionality and limits.
• Assists in training and mentoring less experienced peers.
• May contribute to product architecture.
• May assist less experienced peers.

About Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.®

About the Banno team

We are committed to creativity, thoughtfulness, culture, and openness—the perfect place to make phenomenal products that have a big impact. Our work environment echoes a modern tech startup but we have the security and benefits of a large, publicly traded company. With an engineering team of more than 100, we place high value on continued education and also contribute to, and use, open source projects.

Our team is distributed and that means you can live and work wherever you want–as long as your work hours match US business hours. You’ll get the chance to choose your own tools, work with bleeding edge web technologies across the stack and contribute to products that are used by hundreds of thousands of people.

About Jack Henry and Associates

In 1976, Jack Henry & Associates (JHA) was founded on the premise that strong relationships and sound technology go hand-in-hand. Today, with more than 10,000 customers and over 6,000 associates, we combine this idea with the pursuit of one common goal – excellence in financial services.

JHA provides more than 300 products and services that enable our customers to process financial transactions, automate their businesses, and succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Our three brands – Jack Henry Banking®, Symitar®, and ProfitStars® – support financial institutions of all sizes, diverse businesses outside the financial industry, and other technology providers.

We understand that impeccable service starts with us, empowers our customers, and ultimately enhances the consumer experience. We serve the financial institution looking to simplify day-to-day processes. The college student who expects on-the-go account access. The small business owner searching for better tools to process payments. We all seek simple, accessible, consistent, and secure solutions for financial management.

Through an exceptional service culture that was founded on integrity, trust, doing the right thing, and doing whatever it takes, we confidently lead our customers to success. Whether they want to drive efficiency, improve compliance, better integrate their platforms, customize their systems, or change operating environments, we offer the proven technology and unmatched support to transform their businesses and move them forward.

At Jack Henry & Associates, we aren’t looking for just any applicant. We’re looking for the talented, the focused, and the ambitious. One whose creative and innovative mind can solve problems and improve efficiency. With track records that include academic success, hard work, determination. The brightest people in their fields. We want applicants who are ready to learn, grow, and perfect new skills; who will inspire and be inspired; who are looking to make a better life. We want the ones who want more than a job … they want a career. If you’re this kind of applicant, you’re our kind of Associate. Jack Henry & Associates, where Talent Meets Technology. Is this you?

Equal Employment Opportunity

Applicants for U.S. based positions with Jack Henry & Associates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.

Females, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.