Lead Software Engineer
Green Dot Corporation27 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$140k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices supporting BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
- Architect scalable, distributed, cloud-native banking and payments solutions using Azure or AWS.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to define requirements and deliver robust solutions.
- Drive code reviews, mentoring, testing, CI/CD, observability, and other engineering excellence practices.
- Develop monitoring and alerting systems, meet SLA standards, and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
- Own architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, reduce technical debt, refactor existing code, and add features.
- Document technical solutions through flowcharts, sequence diagrams, business process diagrams, and architecture decision records.
- Organize working sessions, facilitate discussions, delegate actions, and coach team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field.
- Six years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or in a related occupation.
- Experience developing secure, standards-compliant software across Microsoft-stack and open-source technologies.
- Experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure or AWS, APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, containers, and caching frameworks.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs, OAuth2 integrations, OpenAPI specifications, SOAP services, and XML/JSON business objects.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven patterns, Service Bus, Event Hubs, scalable systems, and software design patterns.
- Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD, TeamCity, pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
- Experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog and Grafana.
- Knowledge of Agile development, Scrum, Extreme Programming, financial-services security practices, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment on mission-critical, revenue-critical, customer-facing applications.
- Preferred: fintech or embedded finance experience, partner onboarding and SLA management familiarity, and open-source or technical publication contributions.
- Must currently reside in West Los Angeles, California and be able to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Benefits
- Regular position with a targeted base salary of $139,900 to $199,300 per year.
- Work location is limited to candidates currently residing in West Los Angeles, California.
- Green Dot provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process upon request.
- Visa sponsorship is not available; applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
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.