Lead Software Engineer I – Java & Python

Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through various lending solutions. The Lead Software Engineer I will design and deliver high-quality software, enhance engineering solutions, and collaborate with teams to improve system performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally
• Works closely with senior leaders to shape solutions
• Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns
• Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience
• Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS
• Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency—under guidance of senior engineers
• Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts
• Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability
• Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, and DevOps to deliver well-aligned solutions
• Contribute to a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code and contribute meaningfully to team goals
• Build strong working relationships within the engineering and product teams
• Co ownership of core components or services
• Co Lead development of one or more important services with increasing autonomy
• Help improve system performance, scalability, and reliability

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development experience with Java and Python
• Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices
• Experience with modern databases (relational and NoSQL) such as DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams
• Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership
• Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates