What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer position at Motion Recruitment?
One of the leading providers of innovative financial technology and digital lending solutions is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Hybrid team in Detroit, MI!
Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and enhance a scalable platform supporting the personal loan origination process. In this role, you will work on systems responsible for fraud prevention, identity verification, bank and income verification, and client validation. You will build full-stack solutions, integrate with third-party risk and verification providers, and turn external data into reliable decisions while maintaining a seamless client experience. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will own features end-to-end using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and modern cloud technologies, while working with highly sensitive personal and financial data.
Required Skills & Experience
- 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
What You Will Be Doing
Daily 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
The Offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Multiple medical plan options, including an available zero-premium medical plan option for eligible team-member-only coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Mental health and wellness resources
- Fertility benefits
- Adoption and foster care assistance
- Childcare and tutoring support
- Senior care support
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- First-time homebuyer assistance for eligible team members
- Professional development and continuing education resources
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.