Senior Platform Engineer - Integration Gateway

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

 

As a Senior Software Engineer on nCino's Integration Gateway team, you'll lead planning, design, development, and testing of enhancements to nCino Integration Gateway (IG), an Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) built to connect bank and credit union software.
IG is a serverless web application running inside nCino's AWS cloud. You'll make contributions touching every layer of its stack, including Terraform, ECS, EC2, Docker, Aurora/RDS, Linux, VPC/networking, NGINX, gunicorn, Python, Django, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and Vue.js. Your technical mastery across multiple languages and frameworks will enable you to evaluate technologies, strengthen system architecture, and champion code quality.
You'll guide the team to support client and internal nCino stakeholder integration objectives, troubleshoot production issues, and make solid code and service architecture decisions. You'll mentor colleagues through hands-on collaboration, deeply understand our target users, and acquire user feedback to incorporate into UI/UX/product decisions. You'll be a Python and JavaScript expert who applies cutting-edge AI capabilities to software design and implementation, upholds high quality standards, fights existing technical debt, builds banking system integrations, and performs code and demo reviews.

 

Essential Functions:

• Provide input on architectural decisions and guide team members around best practices.

• Incorporate the automated tests into applicable tickets and mentors other members of the team on automation strategies.

• Lead brainstorming sessions and propose innovative ideas and solutions.

• Identify opportunities & Lead proof-of-concepts to demonstrate key functionality or validate critical technical aspects.

• Begin to consider scalability, maintainability, and best practices as the high-level design of the solution takes shape.

• Identify potential risks and provide mitigation strategies.

• Help choose technologies and tools used for the project.

• Be a technologist with an understanding of a range of languages, frameworks, and tools.

• Consistently design code that is aligned with the overall service architecture.

• Keep abreast of developments in the field and introduce new approaches and technologies.

• Understand the data model and design of the product.

• Facilitate communication and collaboration inside and outside their team.

• Heavily involved in Automated Testing and improves the best practices and metrics.

• Understand adoption and release barriers to entry for the product and technology.

• Support PM and team in developing a strategic launch and release plan with cross functional teams.

• Promote cross-team collaboration focused on taking end to end solutions to market and supporting Go-live activities. 

• Help prioritize the system hygiene backlog, with a focus on improving both the product and the developer experience.

• Mitigate the introduction of additional hygiene through code reviews, ensuring team members adhere to coding standards.

• Leads the management of software dependencies, staying informed about industry updates and trends to ensure version compatibility

• Exhibit technical mastery and proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and tools relevant to our technology stack.

• Uphold the highest standards of code quality and follows industry best practices.

• Plays a pivotal role in driving technical excellence, innovation, and delivering high-quality software solutions.

• Defines personal continuous learning plans and provide customized plans for junior members of the team.

• Demonstrate expertise in independently completing complex tickets, mentor team members, and facilitating effective communication and collaboration.

• Proficient understanding of ETL processes, data modeling and data integration techniques

• Leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance software development activities, including code generation, testing, debugging, and optimization.

• Apply AI insights to identify patterns, automate repetitive tasks, and improve overall development efficiency and product quality.

• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities where appropriate to strengthen product functionality and user experience.

• Maintain awareness of emerging AI trends and best practices to inform continuous learning and innovation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience/proficiency or a combination of education and experience

• Proficiency in Python and JavaScript

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools

• Demonstrated commitment to quality and continuous improvement

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in teams.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Desired:

• Deep proficiency with client-side JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js, Angular, React, Knockout, etc.

• Proficiency at AWS DevOps and SysAdmin work

• Proficiency with both Windows and Linux

• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, NGINX, Django, and relational databases (specifically Postgres) 

• Understanding of security basics like TLS, IPsec, PKI, hashing, and cryptographic algorithms 

• Understanding of basic software design patterns, unit testing, object-oriented language principles, and functional language principles 

• Experience using or integrating the following categories of products: CRMs (especially Salesforce), banking core processors, loan origination systems, deposit account opening systems, data warehouses, CCaaS/IVA/IVR systems, or online/mobile banking systems 

• Experience building tools for technical users such as IDEs, API services, software frameworks, or project management applications

• Experience acquiring user feedback and incorporating it into UI/UX design 

 

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.

 

The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.

The base salary range for this job is:

$107,900.00 - $183,400.00

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success.  We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.