Software Engineer IV

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Full Time Regular Professional Round Rock, TX, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $85,913.00 To $ Annually

Trellis Company is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation focused on helping people leverage the power of post-secondary education and learning to improve their quality of life and the communities where they live.

For more than 40 years Trellis has served as a student loan guarantor, helping to provide trusted guidance and services that help student borrowers successfully repay their federal loans. In addition to pioneering several technologies and services along the way, we have invested in improving student success programs through numerous grants to colleges, universities, and research groups.

Today we have expanded our services beyond higher education to include working with employers and community organizations who are focused on aligning the dreams, goals, and skills needs of employees and employers. Connecting these resources and learning pathways together with our expertise in improving student outcomes helps us all to create better and more predictable futures for those we serve.

As we move into the future, we’re drawing on our history, branching into new sectors beyond student loans, and delivering the same level of exceptional care and service that our customers have come to depend on. We remain invested in the success of students and higher education institutions. This combination of stability and vision creates a unique intersection: a startup environment at a company that also has a stable foundation, resulting in an opportunity for the right candidate to help shape our company's future.

This is an exciting time to join the Trellis team!

The position is hybrid, two days weekly required in office. Office location is Round Rock, Texas.

Software Engineer IV serves as a senior technical member of the Distributed Applications team with primary responsibility for designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining Web, Mobile, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML), and Legacy applications. This role builds and delivers enterprise applications and AI-enabled solutions using modern development technologies and tools, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and AI-driven workflow automation.

This position collaborates closely with Solutions Architects, developers, data engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to analyze business requirements, participate in design sessions, and develop application features. Additionally, the Software Engineer IV provides technical leadership on assigned initiatives, leads the implementation of features and integrations from design through production release, mentors less experienced engineers, researches and addresses technical issues and requests, identifies root causes, resolves production problems, and ensures business applications are available for use 24x7 in production.

The position incumbent is expected to perform the following essential duties and responsibilities with reasonable accommodation.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software features for web, mobile, AI, and legacy applications applying best coding practices and application standards.
• Lead the technical implementation of assigned projects and features from requirements analysis and design through development, testing, and production release.
• Provide technical status updates, risks, and recommendations to project stakeholders and Information Technology leadership.
• Provide technical leadership, coordinate project activities, assign work and guide project teams and professionals to achieve objectives.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs, microservices, and backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate.
• Build AI-enabled application features using Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.
• Implement AI agents and agentic AI workflows using AI agent frameworks and orchestration tools to automate business processes, document analysis, knowledge retrieval, and decision support.
• Integrate AI services and models into new and existing enterprise applications and third-party modules using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot technologies, and vector databases with semantic search.
• Implement Dev Ops practices including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD), containerization with Docker/Kubernetes, and deployment automation.
• Participate in and lead peer code reviews, pair programming, application standards reviews, and application performance reviews using agile software development methodologies.
• Research emerging technologies, including AI…