Lead Software Engineer
Green Dot Corporation4 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices supporting a high-throughput embedded-finance platform.
- Design and oversee scalable software systems and establish coding standards, design patterns, and architectural principles.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to define requirements and deliver robust technical solutions.
- Drive code reviews, mentoring, testing, observability, and other engineering excellence practices.
- Develop monitoring and alerting systems, meet SLA standards, and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
- Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform, including documenting design alternatives and decisions.
- Refactor and extend the codebase, fix defects, add functionality, and develop prototypes or proofs of concept.
- Manage software development projects across planning, analysis, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies, frameworks, and development methodologies.
- Operate in an AI-driven software development lifecycle using tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar assistants.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating secure and standards-compliant software development across multiple platforms.
- Advanced experience with several of C#, .NET, SQL, Azure services, container technologies, and caching frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Azure services including APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault.
- Deep understanding of OAuth2 and OpenAPI specifications and strong experience with event-driven and microservice architectures.
- Hands-on experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog or Grafana.
- Deep knowledge of Git, DevOps, Agile Scrum, security best practices, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues, work independently, lead technical initiatives, mentor others, and collaborate effectively.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment supporting mission-critical, revenue-critical, customer-facing applications.
- Prior fintech or embedded-finance experience, partner integration and SLA-management familiarity, and open-source or technical-publication contributions are preferred.
- Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship and meet the stated location requirement.
Benefits
- Structured hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the office and flexibility to work remotely on the remaining days.
- Regular full-time position based in West Los Angeles, California, with on-site expectations subject to business needs and advance communication.
- Reasonable accommodation support is available throughout the application and interview process.
About Green Dot Corporation
Green Dot Corporation builds consumer and business money-movement products, including GO2bank digital checking, prepaid debit cards, a nationwide cash‑reload network, payroll/paycard solutions, and tax refund processing. It also provides banking-as-a-service and embedded finance capabilities for brands that need compliant accounts, cards, and payments. Founded in 1999, Green Dot is publicly traded on the NYSE (GDOT) and operates both direct-to-consumer offerings and partner-powered programs.