Lead Software Engineer

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

As an Engineering Team Lead with strong back-end expertise, you’ll spend your days guiding the design and delivery of Java and Spring Boot–based services, APIs, and integrations that power scalable fintech applications. You’ll balance hands-on coding with setting technical direction, reviewing designs, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Alongside your technical leadership, you’ll facilitate grooming sessions, assign and unblock work, ensure test coverage, and coordinate across teams on releases and dependencies. You’ll mentor engineers through code reviews and day-to-day guidance, raising the technical bar for the team. You’ll also drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, setting the tone for how your team leverages AI for code quality, reviews, and system design.

Importantly, this role is also a stepping stone to people management. As you grow, you’ll take on expanded responsibilities, including performance management, career development, hiring, and running team rituals. This makes the role ideal for a back-end engineer ready to scale from technical leader to tech owner/people manager.

Team: Lead and collaborate with a group of 5+ engineers

Similar job titles: Engineering Team Lead, Tech Lead, Senior Back-End Engineer

Salary: $150,000 – $170,000

Bonus: Amount employees are eligible for annual performance bonuses as part of our commitment to shared success!

Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!

WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:

Back-End Technical Leadership

• Drive service and API design using Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies
• Assess and balance feature work vs. tech debt; provide high-level LOEs
• Ensure robust test coverage and technical documentation

Hands-On Development

• Write, review, and maintain scalable back-end code for microservices and integrations
• Troubleshoot issues across distributed systems, environments, and configs
• Collaborate with QA on feature test plans

Team Execution & Quality

• Assign and unblock work across sprints, ensuring progress against priorities
• Conduct and coordinate code reviews for complex PRs
• Mentor engineers, fostering technical growth and accountability
• Champion AI-forward best practices, mentoring engineers on integrating AI tools into their workflow.

Cross-Team & Stakeholder Coordination

• Partner with product managers and architects on release scope and dependencies
• Support release deployments, tenant configs, and environment setup
• Lead post-mortem reviews and continuous improvement efforts
• Communicate technical scope and project status to stakeholders

Growth into People Management

• Take on performance management, career development, and hiring decisions as the role evolves
• Lead onboarding of new engineers and run daily standups and team rituals
• Drive backlog prioritization and ensure the team remains unblocked and focused

WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:

• 8+ years of software development experience, with deep back-end expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs/microservices
• Experience designing and integrating large-scale, service-oriented architectures
• Experience adopting or guiding teams in AI-driven development workflows
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (ActiveMQ, Temporal) and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Some front-end exposure (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) to support end-to-end coordination
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy, with an interest in growing into people management
• Strong understanding of performance tuning, scalability, and distributed system challenges
• Comfortable in agile environments with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git

TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH:

Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, ReactJS