Senior Staff Software Engineer

About this Opportunity:

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will utilize your advanced professional expertise and experience to enhance and maintain the software products developed by Summit Wealth Systems. You will operate as an AI-native engineer, having fully integrated AI tools and workflows into how you think, build, and ship — treating AI as a core force multiplier rather than an optional add-on. As we continue to evolve and live our Orion values, we are looking for someone to grow with us.

In this role, you’ll get to:

Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team, modeling curiosity and adaptability in the face of new challenges and technologies

Develop and maintain high impact product features

Create and design solutions for new features, subsystems, modules, systems or platforms that may be specific or cross-cutting in nature

Guide fellow team members in the code review process

Guide and provide clarity for fellow team members in delivering quality solutions

Ensure application quality by testing integrated features as well as writing test automation where appropriate

Ensure application safety by following secure coding best practices

Troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix product defects

Maintains a deep and intrinsic understanding of business use cases and objectives

Actively maintain a self-paced learning regimen to feed professional curiosity, with particular attention to the rapidly evolving AI tooling and capabilities landscape

Leverage AI tools and workflows throughout the development process — from ideation and architecture exploration to coding, debugging, testing, and code review — to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Evaluate and introduce emerging AI-powered tools and practices to the team, helping establish shared standards for effective AI-assisted development

Utilize source control to effectively manage delivery of work

Understand and operate the full lifecycle of the software platform, from coding to delivery and observation in production

Learn and adhere to team and company processes, standards, and procedures

Actively develop and maintain working relationships with team and department members

Participate in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Maintain and nurture an opportunistic mindset — proactively identifying ways to improve processes, tools, and outcomes rather than waiting for direction

Move fast while maintaining the company's integrity and position in the marketplace

Leads from the front lines in helping team to keep consistently delivering

We're looking for talent who:

Has mastery of C#/.NET ecosystem

Has strong understanding of browser capabilities, web performance, and front-end architecture

Has advanced SQL and relational database expertise

Has knowledge of data lakes and distributed data pipeline technologies

Has expertise across AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES, EventBridge, S3, RDS, Bedrock)

Has strong understanding of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, cryptography, and security protocols

Has mastery of git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, IaC best practices, and SDLC processes

Has broad architectural pattern knowledge (DDD, CQRS, SOLID, event-driven patterns)

Has exceptional debugging and problem-solving skills across the full stack

Tackles high-impact, highly ambiguous problems with no blueprint

Defines technical frameworks, patterns, and decision structures for other engineers to follow

Solutions directly influence Orion’s long-term scalability, reliability, and competitive advantage

Builds influence networks across teams and guides engineering direction at scale

Operates with full independence on new, critical, or technically undefined initiatives

May indirectly lead engineers or project teams through influence and technical direction

Determines architecture, technical strategies, and methods for complex initiatives

Has a minimum of 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience

Has demonstrated mastery architecting and building in AWS

Has AWS Solutions Architect certification (or equivalent experience) strongly preferred

Owns and manages relationships with stakeholders directly and works effectively with people at all levels in an organization

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Recommended Skills:

Agile Methodology, Application Development, Client-Centric, Effective Communication, Innovation, Microsoft .NET Development, Structured Query Language (SQL), Technical Proficiency, Time Management, Work Collaboratively

Salary Range:

$140,935.00 - $226,905.00

The pay listed in this posting indicates the estimated pay at the time of this posting; however, may vary depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, Orion offers a competitive benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, and disability coverage on day one, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid parental leave, pet benefits including pawternity leave and pet insurance, student loan repayment and more.