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Our Financials product manages the general ledger, procurement, budgeting, and accounts payable for universities - systems institutions use to move and account for real money under real audit scrutiny. Our platform products manage sponsored research, compliance, curriculum, and degree audit for roughly 150 institutions.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you own a significant subsystem or product domain. You set its technical direction, you make the design decisions that determine whether it stays healthy for the next five years, and you are the engineer other engineers come to. You remain deeply hands-on - this is a building role - while carrying accountability for architecture, quality, and production health well beyond your own commits.\nYou will work in mature, high-stakes systems where the cost of a defect is measured in an institution's financial close or a stalled research grant, and\nwhere deep domain knowledge compounds into real leverage.\nWho are we?\nKuali builds software solutions for higher education. We help our customers - colleges & universities - focus on providing a fantastic education to students by decreasing their administrative costs. 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