Lead Software Engineer

Green Dot Corporation•Los Angeles, CA

3d•$139,900 - $199,300

About The Position

Green Dot Corporation is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to rearchitect its Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform using cloud-native techniques and build the next generation banking and payments platform. The role contributes to continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration, and test-driven development; designs highly scalable distributed solutions; and leads complex integration work involving API contracts, gap analysis, and solution design. The engineer documents and demonstrates solutions using flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and business process flow diagrams, and organizes working sessions to drive discussions toward resolution and delegate actions. The role owns a component or capability during project delivery and ensures software quality, maintainability, scalability, availability, extensibility, security, portability, and testability. It partners with product teams, identifies and addresses technical debt, evaluates evolving technologies and patterns, and participates in code reviews while coaching and learning from team members. The position leads API and microservice design and development for BaaS onboarding and partner integration, contributes to platform architecture and long-term technical strategy, and drives engineering practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability. It also supports SLA compliance, monitoring and alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, codebase improvements, and configurable, change-ready systems. Candidates must reside in West Los Angeles, California, and be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field.
Six years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or in a related occupation.
A strong portfolio demonstrating secure, standards-compliant code across multiple platforms, including the Microsoft stack and open-source technologies.
Experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
Experience designing, developing, and hosting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS, including Azure services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, as well as container technologies and caching frameworks.
Experience with RESTful API design, OAuth2, OpenAPI specifications, SOAP, and XML/JSON business object representations.
Experience designing and building microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns such as Service Bus and Event Hubs, software design patterns and anti-patterns, and scalable, reliable systems.
Experience with Git and GitHub, CI/CD processes, TeamCity, pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
Experience implementing and using observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog and Grafana.
Experience with Agile development, including Scrum and Extreme Programming.
Knowledge of financial-services security best practices and compliance standards, including PCI DSS and SOC 2.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with iterative project turnarounds on mission- and revenue-critical, customer-facing applications.
Ability to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Must currently reside in West Los Angeles, California.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.
Familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management.
Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices supporting BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver solutions.
Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to monitoring and alerting systems.
Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform, documenting architectural and design options and decisions.
Evaluate and champion adoption of emerging technologies.
Refactor and extend the codebase to fix defects and add features or functionality.
Develop durable, flexible systems that favor configurability over customization.
Contribute to continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration, and test-driven development practices.
Design scalable distributed solutions and work through complex integration projects, including API contracts, gap analysis, and solution design.
Document and demonstrate solutions using flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and business process flow diagrams.
Organize and lead working sessions, drive discussions toward resolutions, and delegate actions.
Own a component or capability during project delivery.
Ensure software quality, maintainability, scalability, availability, extensibility, security, portability, and testability.
Partner with product teams to shape future product states and identify and address technical debt.
Monitor industry trends and identify technologies and patterns to adopt or deprecate.
Participate in code reviews, coach team members, and receive feedback.