Senior Software Engineer

Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN); Northern (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Donnelley Financial Solutions is seeking a senior software engineer to help deliver market‑leading SaaS solutions for regulatory bodies. You will contribute to end‑to‑end projects, write maintainable code, and promote best practices across the team.

We rely on engineers to design scalable systems, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with product managers, SREs, and offshore teams to ensure secure, high‑quality software for our customers, including the SEC.

Qualifications

• Be committed to your development, the products you work on and the firm.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to our development practice: design, full-stack development and testing.
• Write concise, clear, well-tested and well-documented code with quality that adheres to industry best practices.
• Optimize code for quality, performance, scalability, efficiency and security; through testing, code scanning, refactoring and monitoring.
• Analyze, design and build solutions that solve the problems we have, not the problems that we think we may have one day.
• Build software with people. Product managers, other developers, SRE, junior engineers, senior engineers, offshore.
• Understands that systems are to be operated and monitoring and metrics are important.
• Engineer for simplicity, reliability, manageability, scalability, extensibility, reusability and performance.
• Makes sure to constantly address technical debt. Shine a light on it, even when it hurts.

Skills

Full-stack development

Testing practices

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Java

.NET

React

Spring

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

CI/CD

GitHub

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Join a dynamic team at the pulse of global markets, where we deliver innovative software and service solutions for essential financial reporting and capital markets transactions. At DFIN, we are a values-driven organization that empowers you to build a fulfilling career while bringing your authentic self to work every day.Our “Win as One” mentality ensures that our team’s success is directly linked to Client, Shareholder and Employee Satisfaction.

In 2026, DFIN was named #1 on the 2026 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® by Best Practice Institute. We have also been recognized as one of America’s Most Loved Workplaces® for five consecutive years and a Built In Best Place to Work for six years, reflecting our continued commitment to supporting employees’ total well-being. Enjoy competitive compensation, a flexible workplace, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. Bring your passion and talents to DFIN - because being YOU thrives here.

Summary:

We are looking for technical team members at all levels who want to push themselves to deliver best in market SaaS solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have to grow, adapt and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.

You can read the bullets below. But they almost always look the same, right? Here is the deal – being a senior engineer here at DFIN means helping us deliver SaaS software solutions for our customers that primarily work with the SEC or other global regulating bodies. Our products are in demand because we solve regulatory problems for our customers. As a senior engineer, you’ll contribute to projects end to end, write code that less senior engineers can emulate, understand how we operate our systems and help make sure our technology grows and doesn’t become a big pile of tech debt.

Responsibilities:

• Be a key contributor to our development practice: design, full-stack development and testing.


• Write concise, clear, well-tested and well-documented code with quality that adheres to industry best practices.


• Optimize code for quality, performance, scalability, efficiency and security; through testing, code scanning, refactoring and monitoring.


• Analyze, design and build solutions that solve the problems we have, not the problems that we think we may have one day.


• Build software with people. Product managers, other developers, SRE, junior engineers, senior engineers, offshore. Construct software that matters.


• Understands that systems are to be operated and monitoring and metrics are important.


• Engineer for simplicity, reliability, manageability, scalability, extensibility, reusability and performance.


• Makes sure to constantly address technical debt. Shine a light on it, even when it hurts.

Qualifications:

• Be committed to your development, the products you work on and the firm.


• Experience designing services based and/or tiered web and mobile applications.


• At least 6 years of experience designing and building scalable data-driven software applications.


• Experience developing secure code meeting security standards and willing to participate in financial systems security practices.


• Experience in Java, .Net, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CI/CD, GitHub. Generally adaptable across the stack.


• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

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