Senior Software Engineer, Automation

Q2

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Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
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Full-time
Posted
40 days ago
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Q2 Holdings is a cloud-based banking software company providing digital banking solutions to banks, credit unions, and alternative financial companies, including consumer and business banking platforms. Industry: Financial Technology & Digital Banking

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Automation

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer - Automation The Senior Software Engineer - Automation joins the engineering team to identify and resolve high-leverage technical bottlenecks across the organization. This role involves framing ambiguous problems, designing end-to-end architectures, and building internal tools, platforms, and standards that multiply engineering productivity. You will develop self-service tools, re-architect manual pathways, and extend an in-house, cloud-hosted agentic AI platform using self-hosted models to resolve alerts. Key technologies include C#, Go, and Python, alongside experience with RESTful APIs, Linux/Windows scripting, and cloud infrastructure. You must possess expertise in observability platforms, monitoring frameworks, and analytics tools like Grafana and Splunk. The work focuses on creating scalable, event-driven automation and infrastructure as code to improve system reliability and internal workflows within a complex financial technology environment.

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What you'll do

  • Identify and frame high-leverage problems that have not yet been scoped or named by the organization.
  • Set the technical direction for projects and align engineering and executive teams on the proposed solutions.
  • Build end-to-end tools and platforms, including whiteboarding, prototyping, architecture, and production coding.
  • Integrate agentic AI platforms and self-hosted models to solve previously impractical problems.
  • Re-architect manual pathways into secure, self-service tools with built-in guardrails and audit logs.
  • Create platforms, patterns, and standards that other engineers use to build their own systems.
  • Socialize designs with senior leadership and defend architectural decisions to the executive team.
  • Manage light, event-driven on-call responsibilities for the specific systems you build and ship.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field with 8+ years of experience.
  • Must have an advanced degree with 6+ years of experience or equivalent related work experience.
  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
  • Must have expertise in software development and system integration for observability platforms.
  • Must have advanced proficiency with monitoring frameworks and analytics tools.
  • Must be proficient in at least one of the following languages: C# (preferred) or Go.
  • Must have extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps toolchains, and infrastructure as code.
  • Must have experience with Linux and Windows scripting, including Bash, Perl, Python, and PowerShell.

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