Software Engineer, Business - Information Technology

At Stout, we're dedicated to exceeding expectations in all we do - we call it Relentless Excellence. Both our client service and culture are second to none, stemming from our firmwide embrace of our core values:
Positive and Team-Oriented, Accountable, Committed, Relationship-Focused, Super-Responsive, and being Great communicators. Sound like a place you can grow and succeed? Read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity to join our team.

• Improve the correctness, security, maintainability, and reliability of applications created by business and domain teams.
• Help teams move promising prototypes into production with appropriate testing, deployment practices, and operational controls.
• Create reusable development patterns that allow colleagues to build useful tools without introducing unnecessary maintenance risk.
• Connect business applications securely to enterprise systems, data, and APIs.
• Balance hand-on engineering with coaching to help colleagues build and maintain applications responsibly.

• Review Python, JavaScript/Type Script, React, and Node applications for defects, security risks, dependency concerns, and maintainability.
• Refactor and strengthen prototypes with appropriate architecture, error handling, automated tests, validation, and documentation.
• Bring applications into Git-based source control, establish CI/CD pipelines, and support secure deployment and hosting in Azure App Service, Static Web Apps, Functions, or Container Apps.
• Implement secure secrets management through Azure Key Vault and authentication and authorization through Microsoft Entra .
• Build and maintain starter templates, reusable components, example repositories, and standard development workflows for business teams.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise systems, data sources, and APIs, applying least-privilege access and appropriate validation.
• Apply dependency and software supply-chain checks, secrets scanning, input validation, and code review standards before production release.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate application requirements into practical technical solutions and advise on tradeoffs.
• Troubleshoot application issues, improve deployment reliability, and document operational support procedures.
• Coach colleagues on sound development practices while taking direct ownership of work that requires professional engineering expertise.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong full-stack development skills in Python, JavaScript/Type Script, React, and Node.
• Ability to read, debug, refactor, and improve applications developed by others, and adapt to new languages and frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Azure application hosting, including App Service, Static Web Apps, Functions, or Container Apps, and Microsoft Entra .
• Experience with Git, pull requests, source control practices, and CI/CD workflows such as Azure Dev Ops.
• Sound application security practices involving secrets management, dependency review, input validation, and least-privilege access.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, raise issues promptly, and communicate effectively with non-developer stakeholders.
• Experience developing integrations with modern APIs and services preferred.
• Experience handling sensitive or regulated data, particularly in financial services or private equity, preferred.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Bicep or ARM and broader Dev Ops experience preferred.

• Use sound judgment to determine when to coach a business colleague and when to take direct ownership of an engineering task.
• Approach inherited code with curiosity, care, and a focus on practical improvements.
• Communicate technical risks and…