What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer position at CREDIT UNION 1?
Credit Union 1 is Recognized as a Chicago Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal Top Workplace 2025
We are excited to announce that Credit Union 1 has been recognized as a Chicago Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal Top Place to work for the fifth year in a row! The Top Workplaces explore how organizations create and sustain a positive and productive work culture. A great culture is important to Credit Union 1, and our culture is made up of more than great benefits and time off.
Join the Credit Union 1 Team
If you are highly motivated, friendly, and looking for a great place to work, join the Credit Union 1 team. As an employee of Credit Union 1, you will be part of a well-established and respected credit union that offers you amazing benefits, along with both stability and the opportunity for a great career path.
Top reasons to begin a career at Credit Union 1:
- Get paid for NOT working 14 holidays each year!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) begins accruing day one of employment
- Tuition reimbursement for approved courses (after 1 year)
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Livongo Diabetes Management Program
- Career growth opportunities it's our philosophy to promote from within whenever possible. Credit Union 1 is committed to your success and professional development.
- Excellent benefits packages including:
- Medical PPO insurance
- High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Dental & vision insurance
- Life, AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance (100% company paid)
- 401(k) retirement and profit-sharing plan (must be 20 years old)
- Free Teledoc 24/7 Physician Services
- Pet Insurance
- Paid Family Medical Leave (When FMLA Eligible)
- Being part of a team providing services with the goal of improving the ongoing economic well-being of our members.
- Exclusive interest rate reduction for qualifying loan products.
The Job at a Glance
The Senior Software Developer ensures consistent, quality service to all business departments within CU1. Responsible for engaging with various business stakeholders to translate business needs into quality solutions and assists in the design, development, unit testing, implementation, and documentation of identified solutions. Interacts with IT resources and vendors to investigate and resolve any issues that arise.
A Typical Day
- Collaborate across teams to create shared understanding of the problem to be solved.
- Understand CU1 application needs and make recommendations to project teams to produce the desired outcome of the project.
- Work with our Digital team and outside partners to develop solutions inside of our Q2 platform.
- Create APIs to facilitate integration between systems.
- Work with internal team and develop enhancements to our core banking system (Keystone).
- Analyze business needs and develop software solutions for external and internal customers utilizing cutting-edge technologies with the aim of optimizing member experience and operational efficiency.
- Develop full life cycle applications including design, implementation, testing and maintenance of simple to moderately complex software applications and subsystems.
- Conduct detailed analysis of system interactions to determine technical solutions and resolve problems that are cost effective and consistent with user needs, system capacities and capabilities.
- Review and recommend software development tools and resources (IDEs, source control, automated test tools, deployment tools, etc.) to the team.
- Review code and maintain industry best practices in the areas of development, maintenance, code deployment, and other similar areas.
- Promote CU1’s core values of Be Great, Be Engaged, Be Open, Be Nice.
What We Look For
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or equivalent work experience
- 7 years JAVA (preferred) or similar object orientated languages (ex. C#)
- 3 years Python
- 5 years in JavaScript and JS frameworks such as ExtJS (preferred)
- Keystone development experience a plus
- Q2 development experience a plus
- Experience 2 years in the financial industry, preferably at a credit union
- Ability to troubleshoot discrepancies, communicate systems and process issues, and improve overall system use.
- Experience in the areas of technical analysis and design.
- A passion for continued learning and drive for results.
Location: 450 E. 22nd Street, Lombard, IL
Salary : $91,317 - $114,147