Senior Lead Software Engineer I
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Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.
We offer top-tier benefits and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:
Put People First We foster an inclusive flexible and fun workplace.
Create Clarity Open communication drives trust and results.
Get Things Done We focus prioritize and deliver with excellence.
Deliver with Heart We lead with kindness humility and strong teamwork.
Listen to Our Customers Their needs drive our innovation.
Barclays has entered into an agreement to acquire Best Egg withclosing expected to take placein Q2 2026. This acquisition will give us the resources and capital to continue on our mission and drive our strategy forward. With an aligned culture lower cost of funds and increased employee growth opportunities across a global brand we are excited about the future of the Best Egg brand under the Barclays umbrella.
We are looking for collaborative innovative team players who like to solve problems. There will also be immense opportunities for those willing to dive in. If youre inspired by growth and want to make a real difference Best Egg is the place for you.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employercommitted to building a diverse inclusive team.
The Job
Senior Lead Software Engineers are senior technical leaders responsible for architecting delivering and scaling complex high-impact engineering solutions at Best Egg. They shape the technical direction of the platform mentor engineers across levels and collaborate deeply with cross-functional partners to ensure systems are secure performant reliable and aligned with business strategy.
Senior Lead Engineers operate at the intersection of architecture execution and organizational influence. They bring deep expertise in distributed systems cloud-native engineering and production-grade operations. They are hands-on builders who set the engineering bar and drive continuous improvement.
This role owns critical systems leads complex feature delivery mentors engineers and contributes to domain-level architectural strategy.
Technical Leadership & Delivery
- 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.
Collaboration & Influence
- 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.
Mentorship & Cross-Functional Leadership
- 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.
In the first 90 days:
- 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.
In 6 - 12 months:
- Lead delivery of complex initiatives within domain scope.
- Improve system reliability scalability and performance in measurable ways.
- Raise engineering standards and influence team practices.
Technical Expertise:
- 68 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 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.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using Docker/ECS/EKS (preferred).
Leadership & Collaboration
- 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.
Who you are:
- A builder who thrives on solving challenging technical problems.
- A mentor who lifts others and models engineering excellence.
- Someone who balances deep technical focus with strong collaboration.
- Expertise in data modeling ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming technologies.
- Experience with Snowflake Kafka Lake Formation or other analytics platforms.
$125000 - $155000 a year
In addition to semi-monthly salary payments this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance. Yearly incentive bonus target 20% of base salary.
Employee Benefits
Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees including (but not limited to):
Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching
program
Generous paid time-off plans including vacation personal/sick time paid short--
term and long-term disability leaves paid parental leave and paid company
holidays
Multiple health care plans to choose from including dental and vision options
Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care Dependent Care and Health
Reimbursement Accounts
Company-paid benefits such as life insurance wellness platforms employee
assistance programs and Health Advocate programs
Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection pet insurance
fitness center reimbursements and many more!
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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