Principal Staff Engineer (Evergreen)

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

At nCino we are dedicated to creating software that is changing the banking industry by helping financial institutions lend with confidence, efficiency, and transparency and better engage with their customers. Our Product Development and Engineering department is a talented group of software developers, product managers, product designers, quality assurance engineers, and others who work closely together in Scrum teams to build banking software of the highest quality. Our departmental values are courage, collaboration, craftsmanship, and fun, and those values guide us in balancing hard work with passion and enjoyment for what we do.

As a Principal Staff Engineer, you will provide an essential, tactical role operating across a group of Agile development teams. With the guidance of organizational leadership, you will focus on difficult business, technical, and organizational problems to find the right path forward for agile teams. This may include operating as part of the team for a time, including working tickets for one or more sprints. In collaboration with architects, you may provide architectural approach and execution for technical systems of limited scope. To be successful, a staff engineer must also understand and keep in mind the high-level goals, product vision, and technical vision across the area they operate.

Responsibilities

• Join teams as directed to focus on a specific problem
  • In collaboration with Engineering and Product leadership, bring broad perspective to teams to help them understand the larger product and technical vision and how their solution functions as part of that whole
  • Ensure highly visible and business critical features are delivered efficiently with quality and expected functionality
  • Provide technical guidance for complex functionality consistent with architectural standards
  • Help teams struggling with a specific deliverable to re-evaluate and get the project back on track
  • Contribute to laying foundation for new technical initiatives
  • Assist in identifying organizational needs for new frameworks, tooling etc.
  • Provide strong technical leadership for the teams in your related group
  • Collaborate with Engineering Managers to identify, mentor, and champion growing technical leaders
  • Fully participate in the established nCino SDLC process and coding standards, identifying areas of improvement in both
  • Proactively identify risks in the planned work for related group
  • Continually push yourself and the teams you work with to become higher performing

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years experience or combination experience, education, & extraordinary performance
• Substantial expertise and professional experience in at least one OOP language: Java, C#, Apex, Ruby, Scala, Python

• Deep understanding of web application development

• Demonstrated ability to create enterprise-scale application designs using validated industry patterns and practices
• Demonstrated commitment to quality and continuous improvement
• Ability to motivate yourself and others, prioritize your own work, and adapt and thrive in a dynamic team environment
• Excellent problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Real passion for software development

Desired:

• Deep knowledge of client-side JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, etc.
• Experience in leading software development teams and mentoring developers
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM and TDD development methodologies
• Experience developing on the Salesforce Platform, particularly developing managed packages as a part of the ISV Partner Program
• Experience in using the AWS platform for delivering SAAS products to market
• Experience designing APIs and functioning in a service oriented architecture

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

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.