Cloud‑Smart Lead Software Engineer (Java & Python)

Best Egg; Delaware; On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plans

Paid time-off

Health care plans

Flexible Spending Plans

Job summary

Best Egg, a leading consumer financial technology platform, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer II in Delaware. You will design, develop, and deliver high-quality software, collaborating with senior engineers to build scalable, secure systems in AWS.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, and DevOps to drive engineering excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement while delivering value across the organization.

Qualifications

• 4 - 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development experience with Java and Python.
• Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices.
• Experience with modern databases such as DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.
• Collaboration & Leadership; Strong communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
• Work closely with senior leaders to shape solutions.
• Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns.
• Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
• Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, and DevOps to deliver well-aligned solutions.
• Contribute to a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Query optimization

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

ECS/EKS

CloudWatch

Datadog

Documentation

Collaboration

Agile

Tools

Docker

ECS/EKS

AWS

CloudWatch

Datadog

Job description

Best Egg, a leading consumer financial technology platform, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer II in Delaware. You will design, develop, and deliver high-quality software, collaborating with senior engineers to build scalable, secure systems in AWS.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, and DevOps to drive engineering excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement while delivering value across the organization.