Laureate, Software Engineer - .NET Architecture

Blackbaud; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackbaud is seeking a Laureate Software Engineer on the Financials team in Hyderabad, India. You will lead technical efforts for our core financial products, ensuring high-quality solutions and architectural integrity.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in software engineering with a deep understanding of financial systems, as well as strong skills in .NET Core and cloud-native architectures. Join us in shaping the future of our financial management capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ability to lead architectural discussions across teams.
• Proven experience in financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural strategy for Blackbaud's financial products.
• Design foundational components that support financial workflows.
• Provide leadership in engineering practices.

Skills

Deep experience in financial software

Strong expertise in .NET Core

Proficiency with Angular

Experience with SQL Server

Experience in cloud-native architecture

Tools

GitHub Copilot

SQL Server

Cosmos DB

Job description

About the Role

As a Laureate Software Engineer on the Financials team, you will provide technical leadership for Blackbaud’s core financial products, helping shape the future of our accounting, financial management, and compliance capabilities. You’ll operate as a senior technical authority, influencing architecture, quality, and long‑term technical direction across teams while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders.

What you’ll be doing

• Help drive the long‑term architectural strategy for Blackbaud’s Financial products, balancing scalability, performance, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and evolve foundational components and services that support accounting, reporting, compliance, and financial workflows.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, guiding design decisions and promoting consistent, high‑quality engineering practices.
• Partner with Product Management to translate complex financial requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions.
• Lead modernization efforts, including legacy system refactoring, cloud‑native architecture adoption, and technical debt reduction.
• Champion the responsible and effective use of AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) across day‑to‑day development.
• Establish expectations for using AI in code reviews, identifying defects, edge cases, and performance issues; improve readability, consistency, and adherence to architectural standards; assist with risk identification in financial and compliance‑sensitive code paths.
• Promote the use of AI to accelerate and strengthen testing, generating and refining unit, integration, and regression tests, identifying gaps in test coverage, especially in legacy or high‑risk areas, and supporting test modernization as systems are refactored.
• Leverage AI tools during legacy modernization efforts to analyze and understand complex or poorly documented legacy code, assist with refactoring, decomposition, and translation to modern patterns, reduce risk while improving speed and confidence in large‑scale changes.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards for reliability, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders (Product, Security, Compliance, Support) to ensure solutions meet business and regulatory needs.
• Mentor Principal and Senior Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Stay current on trends in financial systems, SaaS architecture, and developer productivity tooling, and apply them pragmatically within Blackbaud.

What we’ll want you to have

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership roles on complex, enterprise‑scale systems.
• Deep experience designing and delivering financial, accounting, or other highly regulated domain software.
• Proven ability to lead architectural discussions and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Strong expertise in .NET Core, C#, and modern backend architecture patterns.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores (e.g., SQL Server, Cosmos DB) and RESTful API design.
• Proficiency with modern web technologies, including Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities.
• Ability to deliver work which meets all minimum requirements for quality, security, and operability.

Blackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.