Senior Director, Software Engineering

Strategic Leadership & People Management

• Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team with a defined path to expanding ownership across the full Pros Financing & Payments engineering organization

• Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs building a high-performance accountable engineering culture

• Own hiring calibration and career development for a teamoperatingin an expanding domain

• Define and communicate a multi-quarter engineering roadmap tied to underwriting funding and payments outcomes

Technical Leadership

• Own the architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting decisioning submission and approval workflows funding and payments processing

• Guide technical decisions across a distributed event-driven services ecosystem supporting high-volume time-sensitive financial transactions

• Set and enforce engineering standards for security compliance and auditabilityappropriate toa regulated lending and payments environment

• Champion modern engineering practices including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to raise team velocity and quality

Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner with Product Risk Compliance and Operations to align engineering delivery with contractor-facing financing and payments outcomes

• Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple services and teams balancing speed risk and system stability

• Define and track KPIs across financing/payments transaction volume submission-to-close conversion and fraud/delinquency risk metrics

Process & Platform Maturity

• Drive CI/CD observability and deployment automation across the Financing & Payments service estate

• Manage technical debt and platform scalability as transaction volume and product surface area grow

• Establish the operating rigor on-call incident response SLAs required for systems that gate real money movement

• 10 years of engineering experience including 5 years in technical leadership roles managing managers and cross-functional teams

• Proventrack recordleading engineering for complex regulated fintech lending or payments platforms

• Deep experience with distributed event-driven microservices architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems

• Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems loan origination or servicing pipelines or payments processing infrastructure

• Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (AWS or equivalent) API design and modern CI/CD practices

• Track recordof scaling an engineering organization through growth hiring structuring teams and expanding scope

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills comfortable operating across Product Risk and Compliance

• Experience in point-of-sale financing home improvement/solar lending or contractor-facing fintech

• Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering throughput

• Background scaling a platform team froma single productline into a broader organization mirroring this roles growth path