Software Engineer, III

Blue Sage Solutions is a company focused on providing software solutions for the mortgage industry. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to support Pricing Engines, particularly Optimal Blue, by acting as a liaison between management and engineering staff while leading various technical projects and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• API Integration & Architecture: Design and implement robust API integrations to connect internal systems with third-party vendors and services
• Optimal Blue & Other Pricing Engine Integration: Lead the development, configuration, and maintenance of application integration with Mortgage Pricing Engines, with particular focus on Optimal Blue
• Troubleshooting & Production Support: Ability to research and troubleshoot production issues related to pricing engine integration
• Technical Design: Translate business requirements to technical specifics and develop software architecture and design based on requirements
• Complex Problem Solving: Independently solve various problems and rectify complicated problems through the application of design patterns
• Team Leadership: Designate tasks to team members in a balanced and effective manner and mentor junior/mid-level developers
• Testing & Quality: Create and write complicated tests and perform regular reviews on code done by less experienced developers
• Business Logic: Communicate with clients and management about business processes and transform them into programming code
• Continuous Improvement: Consistently improve the quality and structure of previously written code

Requirements:

• FOUR_YEAR_DEGREE
• API Integration: Extensive experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and managing third-party service connections
• Mortgage Lending Domain: Proven knowledge of the mortgage lifecycle and software ecosystem
• Pricing Engines: Hands-on experience with Optimal Blue integration
• Java (3 years experience)
• Javascript (3 years experience)
• Groovy (3 years experience)
• SQL (3 years experience)
• Spring (3 years experience)
• Hibernate, GORM, or other domain modeling frameworks (3 years experience)
• Grails (3 years experience)
• Vue.js, Angular, Sencha ExtJS or other UI frameworks (3 years experience)
• Drools or a rules engine (3 years experience)
• Cloud: AWS (preferred), Azure, GCP and Cloud Services (Docker, Lambda, Step Functions, SNS, SQS) (3 years experience)
• Databases: MySQL (relational) (3 years experience)
• Build & Repos: Git, GitHub, Jenkins (3 years experience)
• Process: Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence (3 years experience)
• Advanced understanding of REST and API architecture
• Security best practices
• Testing frameworks such as JUnit
• Github / portfolio showing previous API or complex integration work