Financial Software Developer Remote Jobs in Florida

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Sr. Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality digital products. This role will contribute to the design, development, and evolution of our technology platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted development tools.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader and hands-on engineer who can influence system design and architecture, write high-quality, maintainable code, and drive best practices across the software development lifecycle. This individual will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, contribute to technical decision-making, and help continuously improve engineering processes, performance, and scalability.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Sr. Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Design and build scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems in continuous delivery environment
• Write clean, modular and maintainable code with unit test coverage
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns to accelerate development velocity across the team.
• Take ownership of your work and deliver high-quality results
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Help influence and prioritize work to enable efficient, iterative delivery
• Translate high-level strategies into actionable engineering tasks in partnership with product and engineering leadership
• Identify bottlenecks and system constraints, and proactively drive solutions
• Reduce technical debt and improve developer experience to keep systems modern, fast, and maintainable
• Produce technical documentation, schematics, and architecture diagrams
• Advocate for and implement best practices in testing, code quality, performance, and tooling
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Use monitoring, metrics, and logging to troubleshoot and resolve production issues with your team

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 5+ years of technical expertise including recent experience architecting, designing and developing technology platforms using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript, and Type Script.
• 3+ years of experience working with relational and NoSQL database platforms (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Some experience with modern caching technologies (Redis preferred)
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team in a collaborative, team-driven agile software engineering environment.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud environments, including familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and design patterns
• Ability to work across multiple technologies and platforms.
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable code.
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Vuetify, or Angular
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Experience with background processing tools like Sidekiq
• Strong understanding of service-oriented and/or microservices architectures (event-driven patterns are a plus)
• Ability to contribute and grow - team-oriented mindset with strong intellectual curiosity and a desire for continuous learning

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI/ML capabilities into products or engineering workflows
• Experience with and developing for Raspberry PI platform
• Experience developing mobile applications for IOS/Android
• Experience working in high-availability, high-traffic production environments.
• Experience developing or integration with movie theater or entertainment systems
• Experience developing Point of Sale, F&B, Ticketing, Inventory or Order Management Systems.
• Experience working with CRM, Loyalty and Membership solutions
• Experience integrating payment platforms, including EMV and card reader integrations
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools
• Understanding of the mindset of “Fail Fast, Learn Fast” and continuous improvement

Fully Remote This role has been designated as fully remote and is expected to be performed primarily from an employee’s residence.  Occasional travel is required, primarily within the United States several times a year, and, in rare but possible circumstances, global.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.