Senior Software Engineer - FinTech Platform & Verification

Motion Recruitment; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Mental health resources

Fertility benefits

Adoption and foster care assistance

Childcare and tutoring support

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

First-time homebuyer assistance

Professional development

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a Hybrid team in Detroit, MI, focusing on a scalable loan origination platform. You will work on fraud prevention, identity and bank/income verification, and client validation, delivering end-to-end features with Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and NestJS.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, integration with third-party providers, and building reliable, secure systems handling sensitive data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
• True full-stack development experience across frontend and backend applications.
• Experience building and supporting production APIs, services, and microservices.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and external data providers.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience working with AWS and Docker.
• Experience securely handling PII, financial information, or other sensitive/regulated data.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and technical tradeoffs.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with Product and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support full-stack applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and NestJS.
• Develop systems supporting identity verification, fraud detection, bank verification, and income verification.
• Integrate with third-party fraud, risk, identity, and financial verification providers.
• Build and improve verification, re-verification, identity matching, and applicant decisioning workflows.
• Identify edge cases and potential fraud or abuse scenarios while minimizing friction for legitimate clients.
• Own technical initiatives from initial design through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvements.
• Write clean, tested, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.
• Work with PostgreSQL, TypeORM, AWS, Docker, GitHub, and microservices.
• Monitor production systems and improve reliability, performance, conversion, and client experience.

Skills

5+ years experience

Node.js

TypeScript

React

Full-stack development

APIs and microservices

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

PII handling

Software architecture

Stakeholder communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

TypeORM

AWS

Docker

GitHub

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a Hybrid team in Detroit, MI, focusing on a scalable loan origination platform. You will work on fraud prevention, identity and bank/income verification, and client validation, delivering end-to-end features with Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and NestJS.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, integration with third-party providers, and building reliable, secure systems handling sensitive data.