Laureate, Software Engineer - .NET Architecture

As a Laureate Software Engineer on the Financials team, you will provide technical leadership for Blackbaud’s core financial products, helping shape the future of our accounting, financial management, and compliance capabilities. You’ll operate as a senior technical authority, influencing architecture, quality, and long-term technical direction across teams while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders.

This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving complex financial-domain problems at scale, modernizing legacy systems, and mentoring senior engineers to deliver highly reliable, secure, and performant SaaS solutions— while intentionally leveraging AI-assisted development practices across the full software lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:

- Help drive the long-term architectural strategy for Blackbaud’s Financial products, balancing scalability, performance, security, and regulatory requirements.

- Design and evolve foundational components and services that support accounting, reporting, compliance, and financial workflows.

- Provide technical leadership across teams, guiding design decisions and promoting consistent, high-quality engineering practices.

- Partner with Product Management to translate complex financial requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions.

- Lead modernization efforts, including legacy system refactoring, cloud-native architecture adoption, and technical debt reduction.

AI-assisted engineering leadership:

- Champion the responsible and effective use of AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, similar tools) across day-to-day development

- Establish expectations for using AI in code reviews, including:

- Identifying defects, edge cases, and performance issues

- Improving readability, consistency, and adherence to architectural standards

- Assisting with risk identification in financial and compliance-sensitive code paths

- Promote the use of AI to accelerate and strengthen testing, including:

- Generating and refining unit, integration, and regression tests