Software Engineer V (Engineering Lead)

CrossLink Professional Tax Solutions is hiring an Engineering Lead for its Bank Processing project. The role owns the technical design and hands-on development of the bank processing platform, including backend services, banking integrations, and secure transaction processing through production. It also involves guiding and mentoring a small number of engineers while remaining an active technical contributor.

Responsibilities:

• Own the platform architecture and technical design, translating business and banking requirements into practical software solutions
• Personally develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and transaction processing workflows
• Design data models and processing logic for payments, disbursements, reconciliation, and reporting, with a focus on accuracy and auditability
• Implement validation, duplicate prevention, error handling, and recovery mechanisms to protect transaction integrity
• Work with the CTO, business stakeholders, compliance, IT, and banking partners to clarify requirements and resolve technical dependencies
• Establish code quality and testing practices; review contributions and document architecture, interfaces, and operational procedures
• Guide and mentor one or two engineers as needed, coordinating work and resolving technical blockers while remaining an active contributor
• Troubleshoot complex issues and support deployment, monitoring, performance tuning, and production readiness
• Communicate progress, technical tradeoffs, risks, and resource needs to management
• Perform other duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline required
• 5–10 years of software development experience, including ownership of complex backend systems from design through production
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently, explain technical decisions, and collaborate across departments
• Advanced programming skills in Java, C, C++, Go, or an equivalent backend language, with substantial recent hands-on coding experience
• Strong knowledge of backend architecture, API design, system integration, and reliable transaction processing
• Strong relational database and SQL skills, including schema design, transactions, query optimization, and data integrity
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and debugging complex applications, including performance and production issues
• Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring
• Ability to build secure systems that handle sensitive data
• Ability to lead technical work, review code, and mentor a small number of engineers while maintaining substantial individual development responsibilities
• PostgreSQL experience
• Experience with banking, payment processing, financial systems, or refund transfer platforms
• Familiarity with ACH/NACHA files, settlement, and reconciliation
• Experience developing APIs and backend services in Golang
• Experience serving as a technical lead or mentoring engineers on a small project team
• Knowledge of IIS and .NET development
• Experience with AWS CodeDeploy and CodeBuild
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience working in an agile environment using Jira or similar tools
• Experience with the AWS ecosystem, including compute and deployment services such as EC2 and ECS