Principal Software Engineer Platform (hybrid)

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However we are not able to sponsor visas or take over sponsorship at this time.

About the Role

The Tech Platform team is the backbone of Enovas engineering organization building maintaining and evolving the foundational platform components that power our products brands and engineering teams across the company. Spanning IT Tech Ops and Platform Software Engineering we operate at the intersection of infrastructure tooling and developer experience.

As a Principal Engineer on Tech Platform you will set the technical direction for platform-wide initiatives drive the adoption and responsible use of AI across the engineering organization and ensure our architecture evolves to meet the demands of a growing innovative FinTech company. This is a highly visible role: you will influence how Enova builds software how engineers experience their tools and how AI becomes a durable part of our engineering culture.

Responsibilities

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Identify gaps in architecture technology tooling and process and take ownership of addressing them.
• Ensure that new platform systems and services are sensible secure scalable and aligned with Enova-wide design principles.
• Conduct or lead proof-of-concept efforts with the goal of widening Enovas technology advantages.
• Identify evaluate and champion new applications for AI that improve platform reliability developer productivity and engineering velocity.

Cross-Team Leadership & Influence

• Partner with technical leads across teams to translate strategy into actionable prioritized work.
• Manage timeline feasibility and proactively communicate changes and pivots to stakeholders and leaders.
• Actively participate in large cross-team forums and enterprise-level initiatives.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional AI governance and vendor discussions ensuring platform and engineering perspectives are well-represented.

Mentorship & Engineering Culture

• Provide guidance mentorship and oversight to Tech Leads and engineers particularly during incident resolution and complex project work.
• Establish and evangelize Enova-wide design principles and coding standards to ensure consistently high-quality technical solutions.
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends and offer insight into emerging technologies relevant to the platform.

Requirements

• 7 years of software engineering experience designing implementing and supporting systems and software in large complex environments.
• 2 years operating as an architect or principal-level engineer across multiple connected systems or teams.
• Demonstrated experience building with advocating for or deploying AI including LLMs agentic tools or AI-assisted development workflows.
• Strong familiarity with distributed systems architecture domain-driven design (DDD) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles.
• Ability to influence and direct technical strategy across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills comfortable tailoring your message to engineers product partners and senior leadership alike.
• Experience working with Lean and Agile development concepts across multiple teams and products.
• Experience with message-oriented middleware queueing services or event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in one or more of Enovas core languages and technologies: Go Ruby or AWS.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience on a platform infrastructure or developer experience team.
• Experience with cloud platforms particularly AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes Docker).
• Contributions to open-source projects technical publications or conference presentations.

Compensation:

The budgeted annual salary range for this position is $147000 to $210000. Actual annual salary will be determined based on qualifications skills experience and level assessed during the hiring process and may fall outside of the range shown. Additional compensation for this role may include a bonus and restricted stock units. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in Company benefits described in more detail here.

Benefits & Perks:

• Our hybrid roles require in-office work Tuesday through Thursday with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This schedule fosters collaboration team connection and strategic planning enhancing communication and effectiveness to drive results.
• Health dental and vision insurance including mental health benefits
• 401(k) matching plus a roth option (U.S. Based employees only)
• PTO & paid holidays off
• Sabbatical program (for eligible roles)
• Summer hours (for eligible roles)
• Paid parental leave
• DEI groups (B.L.A.C.K. @ Enova HOLA @ Enova Women @ Enova Pride @ Enova South Asians @ Enova APEX @ Enova and Parents @ Enova)
• Employee recognition and rewards program
• Charitable matching and a paid volunteer dayPlus so much more!

About Enova

Enova International is a leading financial technology company that provides online financial services through our AI and machine learning-powered Colossusplatform. We serve non-prime consumers and businesses alike while offering world-class technology and services to traditional banksin order to create accessible credit for millions.

Being a values-driven organization is at the core of Enovas success. We live our values by listening to our customers challenging assumptions thinking big setting high expectations and hiring and developing the best. Through our values and our commitment to making Enova an awesome place to work we maintain an environment of inclusion and culture where our employees can thrive. You can learn more about Enovas values and culture here.

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