What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Software Engineering (Payment Solutions) position at Shamrock Trading Corporation?
Company Overview
Shamrock Trading Corporation is the parent company for a family of brands in transportation services, finance and technology. Headquartered in Overland Park, KS, Shamrock is frequently recognized among the “Best Places to Work” in Kansas City and Chicago and was most recently recognized as one of America’s top 100 “Most Loved Workplaces” by Newsweek. We also have offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Laredo, Nashville, Philadelphia and Phoenix. Overland Park is a great place to live, work and play, being conveniently located within driving distance of everything Kansas City has to offer. Housed within the heart of Overland Park, our offices include 4 gorgeous towers on the East and West sides of Metcalf Ave. With a heavy community presence and a winning culture, Shamrock is a great place to work in Overland Park!
With an average annual revenue growth of 25% over several decades, Shamrock’s success is attributed to three key factors: hiring the best people, cultivating long-term relationships with our customers and continually evolving in the marketplace.
Responsibilities
Shamrock Trading Corporation is looking for a Director, Software Engineering to join our Payment Solutions Engineering team. Director, Software Engineering will be responsible for the overall development of software for specified business units under the Shamrock umbrella.
Incumbents work closely with Business Leads, Product Owners and Senior Management to coordinate software engineering team tasks within projects. You will play a l eading role in managing the delivery of large cross-functional Fintech projects. This position will collaborate to define core business objectives in order to deliver the best product with the most efficient use of company resources. You will actively mentor more managers, Engineering Leads and members of the team, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done.
- Leadership and mentoring to the payment solutions development team, including software architecture approach and design. (50%) Responsible for the overall Fintech application design.
- Serves as expert in all aspects of designing and application development
- Coordinates work teams
- Provides technical support and mentoring to project team members
- Demonstrates expertise in a variety of the Fintech field's concepts, practices, and procedures
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Prototyping, proving in and justifying new technologies. Actively investigating and innovating on new technology solutions to solve business problems
- Technical project management for multiple, complex development projects. (20%)
- Provide consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top -level contributor/specialist. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Estimates and recommends project resource allocations to resource manager
- Development responsibilities on multiple complex projects. (30%)
- Consults with end users to test and debug applications to meet client needs
- Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software programming applications/operating systems
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field.
- 8 years’ experience of software development and deployment of distributed multi-tier applications
- 3 years’ experience managing agile software projects across multiple distributed teams
- Be able to thrive in an ambiguous environment – where change is the only constant
- Detailed oriented to ensure that project success is paramount
- Deep expertise in payment solutions, specifically including bank payment rails such as ACH, Fed wires, RTP, Fed Now, and/or API Payment Integrations
- Proven expertise building high-volume transactional processing and cloud first/native distributed systems
- Strong communication and ability to align with different stakeholders
- Analytical skills & self-starter with the ability to work in a very fast-paced environment
- Results-oriented with a strong customer focus
- Strong Fintech technical knowledge, with hands-on experience managing payment systems development in new computing architectures and environments; knowledge or relevant technology, tools, and middleware is critical
- Strong in both breadth and depth of experience with multiple programming languages and development techniques
- Strong understanding and experience with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience delivering solutions requiring banking standards such as NACHA and card processing certifications PCI and ISO 8583
- Strong experience building exception-based operational workflow automation, alerting, and frontend tools
- Strong technical knowledge, with hands-on experience building Fintech and/or BaaS payment solutions platforms; knowledge or relevant technology, tools, and middleware is critical covering compliance, onboarding, KYB/KYC and fund flows
Benefits Package
At Shamrock we hire bright, ambitious people and give them the tools they need to be successful. By investing in training and development, we hope to become a long-term career for employees, where there are always opportunities for advancement. Shamrock also offers a premier set of benefits for employees and their families:
- Medical: Fully paid healthcare, dental and vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents
- Work-Life Balance: Competitive PTO and paid leave policies
- Financial: Generous company 401(k) contributions and employee stock ownership after one year
- Wellness: Onsite gym and discounted membership to select fitness centers. Jogging trails available at Overland Park offices
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