Software Engineer – Payments at SteerBridge
Vienna, VA
$115,000–$135,000
Jul 1, 2026
Vienna, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and maintaining backend services for a government-integrated payments platform that issues prepaid cards to veterans. Day-to-day work spans automated reconciliation, integrations with banking and card-processing partners via REST APIs and file-based transfers, and ensuring the system meets federal compliance requirements within AWS GovCloud. It suits an engineer comfortable moving between writing production code and contributing to architecture and security decisions on a regulated financial system.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
Pay in the description: $115,000–$135,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,250 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 520–2,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The full-stack requirement lists 'postgres, express, react, node, or similar stacks' — the 'or similar' qualifier means the specific tools are interchangeable, but hands-on full-stack experience is a hard gate. Each named technology is captured as required with common alternatives noted.
AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager) appear under Required Qualifications but are framed as 'familiarity with' — a softer gate than the rest of the required section. Marked as preferred to reflect that softer framing.
Experience with financial transaction data, settlement files, or ledger-based systems is a hard gate but names no specific technology, so it is not represented as a skill.
U.S. Citizenship is explicitly required but is not a security clearance — no clearance is mentioned.
The role is hybrid in Vienna, VA (Washington DC metro area); it is not fully remote.
AI tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Lovable) is listed under Preferred Qualifications; Claude is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since the JD treats them interchangeably.
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