Senior Lead Software Engineer I

Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. The Senior Lead Software Engineer I is responsible for architecting, delivering, and scaling complex engineering solutions, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure system reliability and alignment with business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally
• Own end-to-end implementation, deployment, and operational support for complex systems
• Lead design discussions, create architecture diagrams, and drive sound technical decision-making
• Conduct deep code reviews focused on correctness, maintainability, and long-term sustainability
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of critical systems
• Translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and challenge assumptions where needed
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, Cloud Ops, and QA to ensure alignment
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders
• Participate in cross-team discussions to support integrations, sequencing, and dependency resolution
• Influence the organization to prioritize data governance in all their data and software solutions
• Mentor Software Engineer I/II, Senior Software Engineers, and Lead Engineers
• Support onboarding, domain knowledge transfer, and technical development
• Model engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Establish ownership of one or more critical services and deliver high-quality code
• Build strong relationships across engineering, product, and architecture
• Demonstrate mastery of system architecture and operational readiness
• Lead delivery of complex initiatives within domain scope
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance in measurable ways
• Raise engineering standards and influence team practices

Requirements:

• 6–8+ years of professional engineering experience (10+ for deeply technical stacks)
• Advanced experience with distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, or complex front-end platforms
• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, .NET, Go, or JavaScript frameworks
• Solid understanding of SQL/NoSQL models, data design, performance tuning, and caching
• Experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, or RDS
• Demonstrated engineering leadership, mentoring, and strong code-review practices
• Skilled in Agile development, iterative delivery, and collective ownership
• Strong communicator able to collaborate across roles and disciplines
• Expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and streaming technologies
• Experience with Snowflake, Kafka, Lake Formation, or other analytics platforms
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using Docker/ECS/EKS