Lead Software Engineer I
Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
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Job Summary
Best Egg now part of Barclays is a market-leading tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach stability and purpose of a leading financial institutionworking together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.
At Best Egg youll find a culture grounded in our core valuesputting people first creating clarity delivering with excellence enhanced by Barclays commitment to integrity inclusion and long-term impact. Together we empower our colleagues to challenge innovate and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in peoples financial lives.
With the strength of Barclays behind us we offer expanded opportunities for growth development and career mobility across a global organizationwhile continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.
Were looking for collaborative curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Technical Delivery & Engineering Excellence
- Design develop and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
- Works closely 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.
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
- 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:
- Deliver high-quality production-ready code and contribute meaningfully to team goals.
- Build strong working relationships within the engineering and product teams.
In 612 months:
- Co ownership of core components or services.
- Co Lead development of one or more important services with increasing autonomy.
- Help improve system performance scalability and reliability.
What You Bring
- 3-5 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.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.
Collaboration & Leadership
- 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.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
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