Position Summary
The Software Engineer III builds and extends the solutions our customers rely on, on top of our payment processing platform. This position works full stack — building APIs and services in C#/.NET on the backend, and features in Angular and/or React on the frontend — while acting as a technical point of contact for the platforms owned. This is a senior individual-contributor role with room to lead within a development team: setting technical direction on your projects, mentoring less experienced engineers, and shaping how the team builds software.Duties & Responsibilities- Design and build full-stack features end to end — from API and data model through to the Angular/React UI that consumes it
- Translate requirements from customers and product management into working solutions within our existing development frameworks and architecture
- Act as subject-matter expert and point of contact for your assigned application platform(s), including direct interaction with customers when needed
- Propose and drive architectural improvements to new and existing applications — you're expected to bring recommendations, not just implement others'
- Identify opportunities to improve team process, tooling, and delivery practices, and help drive those changes
- Write maintainable, well-tested code, applying SOLID principles and sound object-oriented/domain design
- Participate in code reviews and mentor junior and mid-level engineers on both technique and judgment
- Work within an Agile/Scrum process, including sprint planning, estimation, and — depending on the team — acting as a technical lead for the scrum team
- Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
- Design and build full-stack features end to end — from API and data model through to the Angular/React UI that consumes it
- Backend: C#, .NET (multiple versions/frameworks) advanced-level command, Microsoft SQL Server
- Frontend: Angular and/or React
- Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure, IIS, Azure function apps, Kubernetes microservices
- Source Control / CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions
- Identity/Auth: Auth0
- Tools: Visual Studio, Jira
Ability to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of technical concepts mentioned above
- Use excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrate ability to cope with deadlines and pressure situations gracefully
Education and Training:
- Bachelor’s Degree Preferred or equivalent practical experience
- 4-6 years of professional software development experience, including full-stack work
- Hands-on experience building production UIs in Angular and/or React
- Solid experience with SQL Server as both a hosting platform and a development/query tool
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated application of SOLID design principles and good coding craftsmanship
- Comfort acting as a customer-facing technical point of contact
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of and experience with coding concepts mentioned above, ability to deliver high quality multi-tier application solutions
- Experience leading scrum teams, mentoring other engineers, acting as customer point-of-contact and technical subject matter expert
- Experience in payments, fintech, or another compliance-heavy domain preferred
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design concepts preferred
- Experience working across a distributed/global engineering team preferred
- Experience with MongoDB preferred
Compensation and Benefits
Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.
(Base Pay Range: $106,000 - $150,000/year)
Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.
Equal Opportunity
Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.
Unsolicited Resumes
Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.
Skills Required
- 4-6 years of previous software development experience
- Advanced knowledge of C# programming
- Advanced knowledge of .NET development frameworks
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server as a database platform and development tool
- Knowledge of Microsoft Internet Information Services
- Knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery or Deployment
- Experience delivering high-quality multi-tier application solutions
- Experience leading Scrum teams
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Experience acting as a customer point of contact and technical subject matter expert
- Bachelor's degree
Busey Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Busey and has not been reviewed or approved by Busey.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company match alongside a profit‑sharing plan, creating multiple employer‑supported savings channels. This structure strengthens long‑term financial security beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available, adding an ownership pathway that complements traditional retirement benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and volunteer time off are included, supporting time away for family and community. Flexible scheduling features in some materials further support practical use of time off.
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What We Do
As of September 30, 2023, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) was a $12.26 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank, a wholly-owned bank subsidiary of First Busey Corporation, had total assets of $12.23 billion as of September 30, 2023, and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank currently has 46 banking centers serving Illinois, eight banking centers serving Missouri, three banking centers serving southwest Florida, and one banking center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Through Busey’s Wealth Management division, the Company provides asset management, investment, and fiduciary services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. Assets under care totaled $11.55 billion as of September 30, 2023. Busey Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary, FirsTech, specializes in the evolving financial technology needs of small and medium-sized businesses, highly regulated enterprise industries, and financial institutions. FirsTech provides comprehensive and innovative payment technology solutions including online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money and data movement; merchant services; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments at retail agents. More information about FirsTech can be found at firstechpayments.com. Busey Bank is honored to be named among America’s Best Banks by Forbes magazine for the second consecutive year. Ranked 26th overall in 2023, compared to 52nd in last year's rankings. Busey was named among DiversityInc’s Top Regional Companies. The DiversityInc Top 50 survey is the external validator for large U.S. employers that model fairness in their talent strategy, workplace and supplier diversity practices, and philanthropic engagement. We are honored to be consistently recognized nationally and locally for our engaged culture of integrity and commitment to community development. For more information about us, visit busey.com.







