Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $62 billion in assets whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Guided by its “Different Approach, Better Results” philosophy, Wintrust offers the sophisticated resources of a large bank while providing a community banking experience to each customer. Wintrust operates more than 200 retail banking locations through 16 community bank subsidiaries in the greater Chicago, southern Wisconsin, west Michigan, northwest Indiana, and southwest Florida market areas. In addition, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units, providing residential mortgage origination, wealth management, commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing/outsourced administrative services to the temporary staffing services industry, and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges. Our unique business model is a competitive strength and value driver, powered by our talented colleagues who put our customers first and achieve better results for our clients.

Why join us?

An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 11 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible
Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few
Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business
We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

Position Overview

The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer is primarily responsible for the design, architecture, development, and maintenance of applications, including requirements analysis, customizations, database changes, user interface changes, and security changes. Converts system requirements into scalable and robust applications. This is a position that works with a team of technical resources focusing on development for a resident software platform. Works with systems managers and engineers, architects, business analysts and quality engineers in a highly collaborative environment to define product features, estimates and deliverables. This person must be able to create and communicate innovative solutions to business issues, continue to maintain these solutions and do production application support.

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineers should be able to produce architecture/design artifacts (i.e. object models, sequence diagrams, technical documentation) to help others understand and adhere to company coding standards and best practices. Commonly uses agile methodology, participate in daily stand meetings, and collaborate with the rest of the team including offshore teams and contracting team resources. Communication skills and interpersonal skills are a must for this position.

What You’ll Do

Responsible for technical development, implementation, administration, and support of existing web applications as well as develop new applications for B2B and B2C.
Works with business analysts to write and review technical specifications as required, meeting the objectives of functional specifications. Specifically, identifying specific user interfaces and workflows. Ability to provide alternative solutions and mockups when is necessary.
Understand and follow software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodology and follow internal processes.
Responsible for the software release management of team projects including packaging for deployment and working with release engineers to support the release of the web applications into production.
Develops technical design documents for software solutions independently.
Participate in unit testing development, and work with various security platforms so we can meet security standards and expectations.
Collaborate with Solutions Architects to design flexible, scalable, maintainable solutions; with business analysts to understand and implement complex business functionality; and with Quality Assurance personnel to ensure successful delivery of solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related disciplines, or equivalent work experience.
5 years’ experience with object-oriented applications development including the ecommerce applications and enterprise web applications and implementing business applications
5 years’ experience developing complex web applications and web forms utilizing web technologies such as Classic ASP, Web forms, MVC, AJAX, JSON, jQuery and jQuery UI frameworks, and other client-side technologies as well as 3-5 years’ experience developing complex web applications in Angular or Angular JS. Experience in React and MS Blazor are not required but it is a strong plus.
3-5 years’ experience in SQL Server Stored Procedures, functions and triggers and implementing SSIS packages and developing applications that interface to SQL Server and require analysis and understanding of database schema design.
Experience using design tools to create architecture diagrams (MS Visio).

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment
Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance
Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount
Critical Illness Insurance
Accident Insurance
Transportation and Commuting Benefits
Banking Benefits
Pet Insurance

Compensation

The estimated salary range for this role is $90,000.00 - $130,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills and experience.

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.