Senior Staff Software Engineer

About this Opportunity:

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will utilize your advanced professional expertise and experience to enhance and maintain the software products developed by Orion. You will operate as an AI-native engineer, having fully integrated AI tools and workflows into how you think, build, and ship — treating AI as a core force multiplier rather than an optional add-on. As we continue to evolve and live our Orion values, we are looking for someone to grow with us.  

For External Candidates:
Candidates must work in-office at one of the following locations for at least 3 days per week: Omaha, NE; Lehi, UT.

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team, modeling curiosity and adaptability in the face of new challenges and technologies

• Develop and maintain high impact product features

• Create and design solutions for new features, subsystems, modules, systems or platforms that may be specific or cross-cutting in nature

• Guide fellow team members in the code review process

• Guide and provide clarity for fellow team members in delivering quality solutions

• Ensure application quality by testing integrated features as well as writing test automation where appropriate

• Ensure application safety by following secure coding best practices

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix product defects

• Maintains a deep and intrinsic understanding of business use cases and objectives

• Actively maintain a self-paced learning regimen to feed professional curiosity, with particular attention to the rapidly evolving AI tooling and capabilities landscape

• Leverage AI tools and workflows throughout the development process — from ideation and architecture exploration to coding, debugging, testing, and code review — to accelerate delivery and improve quality

• Evaluate and introduce emerging AI-powered tools and practices to the team, helping establish shared standards for effective AI-assisted development

• Utilize source control to effectively manage delivery of work

• Understand and operate the full lifecycle of the software platform, from coding to delivery and observation in production

• Learn and adhere to team and company processes, standards, and procedures

• Actively develop and maintain working relationships with team and department members

• Participate in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Maintain and nurture an opportunistic mindset — proactively identifying ways to improve processes, tools, and outcomes rather than waiting for direction

• Move fast while maintaining the company's integrity and position in the marketplace

• Leads from the front lines in helping team to keep consistently delivering

We’re looking for talent who:

• Has deep knowledge of modern JavaScript or TypeScript using NodeJS.

• Strong experience in C#, .NET, distributed programming, and building scalable enterprise applications.

• Expertise with Entity Framework/EF Core and relational database design.

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services for building and deploying modern applications.

• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture and system design best practices.

• Working knowledge of Angular and AngularJS for UI development and integration.

• Has deep knowledge of the NodeJS ecosystem, including community idioms, popular packages, design patterns, documentation, internal workings and quirks

• Understands React and related front-end libraries to create rich user experiences, keeping an eye on the changing ecosystem for opportunities and challenges

• Has a working understanding of the web platform, and a strong understanding of the capabilities of web browsers and their role in relation to back-end software

• Has knowledge of token-based AuthZ systems like OpenID-Connect and OAuth2

• Has knowledge of the role of cryptography and certificates in modern application development

• Has knowledge of the workings of computer networking, the OSI model, and the domain name system

• Has an understanding of how to use CSS to style the front-end, including upcoming features and their adoption

• Has knowledge of troubleshooting and debugging in all applicable contexts (front-end, back-end, database, platform)

• Has an advanced knowledge of relational database technology SQL Server and/or Postgres, Comparative knowledge of other database technologies

• Has understanding of common data lake and data