Lead Software Engineer

Fundrise is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to manage a team in its API Engineering group, which builds core services for its investor applications. The role combines people management and hands-on engineering, including setting technical direction, delivering and maintaining services, and ensuring application security and operational quality.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers through effective weekly one-on-ones, deliberate delegation, and growth feedback
• Own your team's delivery, breaking down work, coordinating across teams, and shipping against ambitious but achievable timelines
• Hold the team to a high quality bar of production code, conducting thorough code reviews and making merge and deployment decisions
• Drive design and architecture for Fundrise services and contribute to a long-term team roadmap
• Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering stakeholders across the organization to quickly implement complex functionality
• Champion application security as a critical part of the work in a regulated financial services environment
• Own production monitoring and triage across our services and third-party integrations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• 3+ years leading and managing engineers: running 1:1s, driving team performance through candid feedback, and owning your team's delivery, quality, and growth
• 4+ years building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services like ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB and WAF
• A deep understanding of transactional database design and operations
• A track record of improving existing systems in operationally complex environments
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure software, including a solid understanding of common threats and principles for writing secure code
• Comfortable tackling problems without obvious answers, and can rapidly absorb new languages and frameworks in order to implement the best software solutions
• A passion for working backwards from the outcomes the business needs to the engineering decisions that will achieve them