Solutions Architect

Charlotte, VT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Solutions Architect - Charlotte NC - Hybrid (local candidate preferred)
EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Key Skillset: Typescript graphQL Jira API NodeJS security; Candidate will be an individual contributor

ABOUT THE ROLE:
Job Description

is the countrys largest lending-exclusive financial company proudly serving millions of customers with safe affordable and transparent installment loans. Our customers turn to us every day-online and at over 1400 branches in 44 states-to help them take control and improve their financial lives. Its all about doing the right thing-a mission that hasnt changed for more than 100 years.

Role Summary
Youll be the go-to hands-on coder and architect across our CARDS technology platform- This is a pure IC role (no people management) focused on building high-quality observable production code quickly and safely in a cloud-native stack.

What Youll Do

Hands-on Engineering:

Write production-grade scalable backend code using TypeScript JavaScript Python and modern frameworks.
Design and implement services Apollo GraphQL subgraph/resolvers in TypeScript/Node.
Develop APIs services and platform infrastructure that support credit cards acquisitions workflows flows.
Ship event-driven features (Kafka/SQS) with idempotent processing retries circuit breakers and instant rollback (shadow/parallel modes).
Engineer for operations: TDD performance/load testing OpenTelemetry traces/metrics/logs meaningful SLOs and production dashboards.
Work in a code-repo with strict CI/CD PR reviews static analysis and automated security scanning.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

Architect platform-level services and improve systems for resilience observability and extensibility.
Make high-leverage engineering decisions that balance speed quality and maintainability.
Raise the bar on engineering quality through hands-on contributions design reviews and technical mentorship.

Team Collaboration & Mentorship

Partner with product design operations and other engineering teams to build solutions that deliver business value and customer impact.
Contribute to cross-functional platform efforts (e.g. onboarding credit bureau reporting servicing & collections APIs).
Drive alignment on technical strategy and execution with strong written and verbal communication.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
8 years building distributed backend services; 3 years with TypeScript/ in production.
Experience with TypeScript Python PostgreSQL AWS.
Deep experience with GraphQL (Apollo/Federation) AWS (EKS/Lambda API Gateway S3 KMS IAM) and event streams (Kafka/MSK or SQS).
Proven track record shipping fast with TDD CI/CD feature flags and safe migration patterns (strangler shadow/parallel).
Solid security and compliance chops: OAuth2/OIDC (Okta) least-privilege IAM encryption audit/retention.
Production observability with OTel Grafana/Datadog/New Relic (or similar).
Experience with Docker Kubernetes. Cloud infrastructure Terraform and CI/CD
Deep understanding of software architecture design patterns and best practices for building scalable and robust applications.
Proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams promoting technical excellence and collaboration.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences

Solutions Architect - Charlotte NC - Hybrid (local candidate preferred) EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Key Skillset: Typescript graphQL Jira API NodeJS security; Candidate will be an individual contributor ABOUT THE ROLE: Job Description is the countrys largest lending-exclusive financial company proudly serv...