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Senior Director, Software Engineering

GoodLeap

Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 240700 - 303200

Posted: 9 August 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 9 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About GoodLeap:

GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC heat pumps roofing windows and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple fast and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable accessible and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeaps proprietary AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication deeper business intelligence and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.

GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit GivePower which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa Asia and South America.

Position Summary

GoodLeaps B2B organization builds the technology that powers the GoodLeap Pros platform the end-to-end software contractors use to run their businesses accessed through the Pros web and mobile clients APIs MCPs and the DeDe agent. Within B2B Pros Financing & Payments owns every point-of-sale financing and payments capability contractors and their customers touch: underwriting submissions approvals pricing funding and payments along with the product configuration and documents infrastructure that supports them. The Senior Director of Software Engineering will lead the Funding & Payments engineering team owning the architecture delivery and operational health of the systems that decide fund and process contractor transactions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can architect resilient high-throughput financial systems while building and scaling the team accountable for them.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & People Management

Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team

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

Required Skills Knowledge and Abilities

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

Nice to Haves

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

$240700 - $303200 a year

Base pay range (CA WA NJ MA DC NYC) per year: $264800 - $303200

Base pay range (all other US locations) per year: $240700 - $275600

In addition to the above salary this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions:

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by ones supervisor or other managers related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and other skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment perform the essential functions of the job or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

If you are an extraordinary professional who thrives in a collaborative work culture and values a rewarding career then we want to work with you! Apply today!

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About Company

GoodLeap

We are a sustainable home solutions marketplace. Providing simple, fast, and frictionless point-of-sale technology for countless mission-driven professionals serving millions of people who want to upgrade their homes and save money.

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