Associate Director Engineer Software

OneMain Financial • Baltimore, MD

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About The Position

We’re looking for a hands-on, people-first engineering leader to help shape the future of our Loan Acquisition technology—especially across key entry points like SEO, SEM, and affiliate-driven funnels. You’ll partner with product, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-converting, resilient experiences that help customers move through the loan application journey smoothly. In this role, you’ll lead and mentor high-performing engineering teams, build scalable systems, and drive initiatives that balance long-term vision with day-to-day delivery. You’ll play a critical part in ensuring we stay fast, stable, and focused on what matters most to our users and the business.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years leading teams and managing managers.
• A track record of building and shipping scalable web applications in agile environments.
• Strong ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers working on customer-facing loan acquisition experiences—mentoring tech leads, hiring top talent, and supporting career development.
• Partner closely with Product, Marketing, and Design to shape the roadmap, deliver features that improve performance, and test ideas quickly.
• Own the technical strategy for top-of-funnel platforms and application flows—balancing experimentation, performance, and maintainability.
• Break complex projects into MVPs, enabling faster delivery and feedback cycles.
• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and thoughtful decision-making through strong engineering practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation).
• Set clear team goals, measure progress, and continuously improve engineering processes and collaboration.
• Ensure systems are performant, secure, and resilient—especially in a high-traffic, mobile-first environment.
• Translate high-level business goals into technical direction, and collaborate with enterprise architects and infrastructure partners on long-term planning.
• Actively contribute to platform evolution, including migration and modernization efforts.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances.
• Up to 4% matching 401(k).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date).
• Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date.
• Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date).
• Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees