Lead Software Engineer II
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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 Lead Software Engineer II plays an important role in building and enhancing engineering solutions across the organization. This role focuses on designing and delivering reliable high-quality software while contributing to technical discussions improving engineering practices and supporting team execution. You will work closely with senior engineers and architects to implement scalable secure and maintainable systems.
Technical Delivery & Engineering Excellence:
- Design develop and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
- Take ownership of key components and servicesfrom hands-on coding to deployment and monitoring.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute architectural insights working 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.
- Translate business requirements into clear technical tasks and help validate assumptions and approaches.
Cloud Engineering & Operational Support:
- Build and enhance distributed event-driven and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
- Apply cloud best practicessecurity cost awareness performance and operational efficiencyunder 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.
Team Collaboration & Mentorship:
- Mentor and support junior engineers through pairing code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- 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.
In the first 90 Days:
- Take ownership of core components or services.
- Deliver high-quality production-ready code and contribute meaningfully to team goals.
- Build strong working relationships within the engineering and product teams.
In 6 - 12 months:
- Lead development of one or more important services with increasing autonomy.
- Help improve system performance scalability and reliability.
- Support and elevate engineering practices through mentorship reviews and process improvements.
What you bring:
- 57 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.
- Experience developing and maintaining complex codebases through the use of AI and Agentic tools such as Cursor Codex and ChatGTP
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.
- Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers.
- 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.
$110000 - $130000 a year
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:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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