Who We Are:

Cardinal Financial is a nationwide direct mortgage lender that focuses on creating solutions for our borrowers, partners, and employees—to provide the very best experience. We are genuine and hard-working individuals who are not scared to improve and intentionally push beyond what is considered “good enough.” Looking to join a growing company that values its people, innovates, and expands on its proprietary technology? Apply below!

Who We Need:      

The Senior Software Architect is responsible for designing scalable software solutions, from idea conception to code implementation as well as mentoring other engineers. As a Senior Software Architect, you should have mastery of architectural patterns and best practices as well as front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries.

What You Will Do:      

• Collaborate with a greater engineering team in an agile environment
• Partner with Leadership, Executive Management, and key business stakeholders to identify and solve software requests and needs
• Take part in architectural discussions, create architectural specifications, and perform architectural reviews of software stories
• Identify technical debt.
• Identify optimization opportunities in the system.
• Create concrete plans to remove technical debt.
• Create concrete plans to increase performance in the system.
• Mentor other engineers in best practices and team conventions and standards.
• Participate in code reviews and daily interactions to ensure our application meets our high standards. 
• Find ways to improve our applications and how we work allowing us to make more happen with less.

What You Need:      

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 10+ years of software development experience on a large-scale web application required.
• 3+ years experience working in Software Architecture preferred.
• Experience with generative AI preferred.
• Experience with AI APIs preferred.
• Mortgage banking or financial experience preferred.
• You communicate well whether you’re getting specs from a stakeholder, writing those specs, explaining a design to your colleagues, or patiently helping a user 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze a feature story and design a robust solution for it. You can create specs for complex business rules and calculations.
• You write well-designed code that you and others will find easy to understand and modify six months from now.  
• Demonstrated ability to review code and specifications ensuring high quality standards of other engineer’s stories.
• Demonstrated skill with designing and implementing complicated software stories
• Mastery of object-oriented design and how to implement your designs in Java.  
• Comfortable with Linux commands and tools.
• Demonstrated success in designing good databases and your SQL skills are solid.
• Demonstrated success building UIs using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. 
• Demonstrated success implementing HTTP / XML integrations with third-party systems.
• You love a fast environment with a lot of churn. You take pleasure in creation, chaos, spontaneity, change, debate, and silence.
• You’re passionate about great code design, great UX, security, performance, and testing. 
• You pride yourself on understanding projects top to bottom.
• You’re comfortable working in a team where each of us has a huge impact and we depend on each other to get things done. 
• You enjoy working alone or working with others. You’re comfortable doing things even when you’re not told exactly what to do.

What We Offer:

• Strength, Stability, and Vision.
• Great compensation package.
• Opportunity for career growth
• A commitment to be a relevant market leader - we are aiming for the top!
• Octane, our engineered proprietary technology that is transforming the mortgage industry.
• An empowered culture where your ideas are important and your voice matters.
• Full Benefits, beginning the first day of the month following your start date including - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability Insurance, and much more.
• Generous paid time off package that also includes all major holidays.
• 401K w/ 50% match - Beginning the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment.

Cardinal Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and aim to empower individuals and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce. California residents click here to review Cardinal's California Employee Privacy Policy & Notice at Collection. The expected base salary for this position ranges from one hundred seventy five thousand dollars to two hundred eighty thousand dollars determined based on the applicant's experience, skillset, education, training, certificates, and licenses.