Lead Software Engineer
Green Dot Corporation2 days ago
Base Salary
$142k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices supporting a highly transactional embedded-finance platform.
- Design and oversee scalable software systems while establishing 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, CI/CD, observability, and other engineering excellence practices.
- Develop monitoring and alerting systems, meet SLA standards, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Set architectural direction and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform, including documenting design options and decisions.
- Refactor and extend the codebase, fix defects, add functionality, and develop durable, configurable systems.
- Manage software development projects spanning planning, analysis, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and development methodologies, including prototypes and proofs of concept.
- Work in an AI-driven software development lifecycle using tools such as GitHub Copilot.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
- Advanced experience with several of C#, .NET, and SQL, plus hands-on cloud experience with Azure services including Azure API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications.
- Deep expertise in event-driven and microservice-based architecture patterns, including Service Bus and Event Hubs.
- Hands-on experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog and Grafana.
- Deep knowledge of Git, security best practices in financial services, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and DevOps practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues, work independently, lead in a fast-paced environment, and deliver customer-facing applications.
- Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience includes fintech or embedded finance platforms, partner integration workflows, API and SLA management, open-source contributions, or technical publications.
- Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship and meet the West Los Angeles, California location requirement.
Benefits
- Structured hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the office and allowing remote work on remaining days.
- Contractor position with a targeted base salary of $141,918 to $199,300 per year.
- Position is open only to candidates currently residing in West Los Angeles, California.
- Reasonable accommodations are available upon request during the hiring 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.