Senior Software Engineer (Scala, AWS)

Why TrueML?   TrueML is a mission-driven financial software company that aims to create better customer experiences for distressed borrowers. Consumers today want personal, digital-first experiences that align with their lifestyles, especially when it comes to managing finances. TrueML’s approach uses machine learning to engage each customer digitally and adjust strategies in real time in response to their interactions.   The TrueML team includes inspired data scientists, financial services industry experts and customer experience fanatics building technology to serve people in a way that recognizes their unique needs and preferences as human beings and endeavoring toward ensuring nobody gets locked out of the financial system. About the Team The Legacy Performance Improvement team builds and maintains the systems that keep our business running. Much of our work centers on legacy platforms that power some of the company's highest-revenue projects, which means our work is visible across the organization and carries real impact. We modernize, stabilize, and extend critical systems while keeping them reliable for the teams who depend on them every day. About the Role We're looking for a senior engineer who is excited by the challenge of working on mature, business-critical systems and shaping how they evolve. You'll work on high-revenue, high-visibility projects, contribute to architectural decisions, mentor other engineers, and partner with stakeholders across the company to deliver tools that matter. What You'll Do:

Design, build, and maintain internal tools and services, primarily within legacy systems

Contribute to architectural decisions, including how to incrementally modernize and improve existing platforms

Deliver on high-revenue projects where reliability, correctness, and performance are essential

Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and the business to understand needs and communicate progress

Improve the maintainability, testing, and observability of existing codebases

Write clear technical documentation and share knowledge with the team

Participate in code reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and help raise the engineering bar

Who You Are (Qualifications):

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software

Experience with software architecture, including designing systems and making sound technical trade-offs

Comfort working in and improving legacy codebases

Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages and tools quickly

Experience with Scala and/or Python

Experience building services or APIs used by other engineers or internal teams

Strong communication skills and confidence working on high-visibility projects

Nice To Have:

Experience leading or contributing to legacy system modernization or migration efforts

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containers, and CI/CD pipelines

What Success Looks Like (in this role):

You've shipped meaningful improvements to one of our legacy platforms and taken ownership of at least one service or component

You're contributing to architectural discussions about how these systems should evolve

Stakeholders trust you to understand their needs and deliver reliably against them

You're a dependable code reviewer and a source of sound technical judgment on the team

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