8 months ago
Base Salary
$224k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical design of services and systems.
- Design, code, review, test, fix, research, deploy, and maintain services and code in AWS production environments.
- Lead large feature releases and initiatives that cross engineering team boundaries and departments.
- Prioritize work, navigate ambiguous problem domains, and deliver autonomously at a high standard.
- Influence coding practices and mentor engineering team members.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, and other stakeholders on technical approaches and product delivery.
- Maintain challenging, stable, high-quality, and maintainable software projects.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience developing production software for large-scale, consumer-facing mobile applications.
- Present or past experience at the Principal Engineer level or above.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience leading large feature releases involving multiple people and engineering teams across departments.
- Experience architecting scalable backend systems in Java, Go, or Ruby.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver products from infancy through maturation.
- Experience leading and mentoring team members.
- Experience maintaining high-quality, stable, and maintainable codebases while delivering challenging projects on schedule.
- Ability to collaborate and compromise to reach efficient technical outcomes.
- Familiarity with relational databases.
- Fintech experience is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively in a fluid environment with high autonomy is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) matching, FSA, HSA, HRA, and other wellness benefits.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible vacation policy, PTO, and paid holidays.
- Equity grants and cash bonus opportunities are offered as part of compensation.
- Career growth opportunities in a dynamic and challenging team environment.
- The role is associated with offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City; specific work arrangement is not stated.
About Lead
Lead builds a banking-as-a-service platform and operates a state‑chartered, FDIC‑insured bank, enabling fintechs and crypto companies to embed compliant payments, deposit accounts, cards, lending, and digital‑asset services via APIs. It earns revenue through BaaS partnerships and commercial banking products. The company traces its roots to 1928 and runs an FDIC‑insured bank in Kansas City, with offices in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and New York.