Lead Software Engineer

Lead the development and delivery of scalable, customer-facing financial wellness applications while providing hands-on technical leadership across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems initiatives.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Lead development initiatives across customer-facing enterprise applications
• Build and support scalable applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and AWS
• Own technical delivery from requirements gathering through deployment and production support
• Drive architecture and design discussions involving APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven workflows
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams
• Break down complex technical challenges into scalable, actionable solutions
• Mentor engineers and guide technical problem-solving efforts collaboratively
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering best practices discussions
• Support production operations, monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Help improve engineering quality, delivery execution, and overall team effectiveness

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong frontend engineering experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Strong backend engineering experience with Node.js, APIs, and microservices
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures/CDC workflows
• AWS cloud environment experience
• Experience owning technical delivery from requirements through production
• Strong enterprise product engineering mindset
• Proven ability to lead delivery and collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding teams through complex technical challenges
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive execution proactively, * Angular experience
• Ruby on Rails exposure
• PostgreSQL experience
• Docker and containerization experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (CircleCI preferred)
• Experience with DataDog, Sentry, or other observability tools
• Financial services, fintech, or enterprise SaaS experience