Software Engineer Senior - Mortgage Platforms

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

Join a high-visibility mortgage transformation building the target-state lending experience from the ground up. Blend will power the member-facing mortgage application, while Empower will support loan origination through closing. As a Senior Software Engineer embedded within a Scrum team, you will provide hands-on expertise in one of these platforms, including configuration, customization, integrations, data movement, end-to-end testing, and production support.

We are looking for a collaborative software engineer who puts members and the mission first, approaches complex problems with honesty and integrity, and builds trusted solutions that make the mortgage process simpler and more reliable. This is an opportunity to contribute your perspective, help your team succeed, and shape a modern lending experience for military members and their families.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX or Plano, TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, code, and test complex tactical as well as strategic technical solutions across many technologies, including emerging technologies, to integrate existing systems and tools, collaborating with Engineers or Architects within their team/department and occasionally outside of their domain.
• Lead code/design reviews and communicates updates to stakeholders with team to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning.
• Develop complex algorithms to solve business needs.
• Investigates and resolves complex application and system technical problems and production issues by directing troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions.
• Mentors engineers, coaches engineers on design, development, and maintenance of systems; Reviews teammates' code.
• Influence and help shape the future of their specific domain's architecture and quality standards and understand, identify, measure across entire solution.
• Identify system performance issues, to include technical debt, and optimize solution.