Engineering Team Lead

Sunbit; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Squad Lead to guide a multidisciplinary team in developing innovative purchase applications. This role focuses on architectural design and technical leadership, ensuring alignment with business goals and system scalability. You will drive a culture of technical excellence while overseeing system reliability and incident response. The ideal candidate will possess extensive software engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and a passion for creating impactful solutions in a fast-paced environment. Join us in transforming financial technology and making a difference in consumers' lives.

Qualifications

• 8+ Jahre Erfahrung in der Softwareentwicklung mit Fokus auf skalierbare Architektur.
• 2+ Jahre Führungserfahrung in der Leitung von Ingenieurteams.

Responsibilities

• Leiten der technischen Architektur und Systemdesign für Kaufprodukte.
• Führen eines multidisziplinären Teams von Frontend- und Backend-Ingenieuren.

Skills

Leadership

Software Engineering

System Architecture

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Adaptability

Education

B.Sc in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kotlin

Java

Spring Framework

MySQL

MongoDB

Kafka

SQS

RabbitMQ

Job description

About Us

Sunbit builds financial technology for real life. Our technology eases the stress of paying for life’s expenses by giving people more options on how and when they pay. Founded in 2016, Sunbit offers a next-generation, no-fee credit card that can be managed through a powerful mobile app, as well as a point-of-sale payment option available at more than 25,000 service locations, including auto dealership service centers, optical practices, dental offices, veterinary clinics, and specialty healthcare services. Sunbit was included on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list. The financial technology company has also been named Sunbit as a Most Loved Workplace, Best Point of Sale Company, and a Top Fintech Startup by CB Insights.

We use cutting-edge innovations in financial technology to bring leading data and features that allow individuals to be qualified instantly, making purchases at the point-of-sale fast, fair, and easy for consumers from all walks of life. We create value focused on our core values; we work tirelessly to ensure that Sunbit becomes available to everyone, everywhere.

We invite you to #UnleashyourCuriosity and join our ever-growing R&D organization.

Feel free to reach out with any questions!

What You’ll Do:

Sunbit is looking for a Squad Lead to join and lead our Purchase Apps Squad—a multidisciplinary team responsible for exposing Sunbit's purchase process to users and partners. This squad owns a variety of products that are at the heart of how customers and partners engage with our platform.

As a Purchase Apps Squad Lead, your primary focus will be on architectural design, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. You'll lead a team of frontend and backend engineers, work closely with product and business teams, and ensure alignment with business goals, system scalability, and development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical architecture and system design for customer- and partner-facing purchase products
• Guide a multidisciplinary team of frontend and backend engineers through implementation, delivery, and iteration
• Work closely with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Ensure development aligns with business objectives, long-term system health, and Sunbit's engineering standards
• Conduct and lead design reviews, code reviews, and performance optimization efforts
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Oversee system reliability, monitoring, and incident response within your domain

Requirements

• 2+ years of leadership experience, guiding engineering teams and making architectural decisions
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on scalable architecture and system design
• Proficiency in modern system architecture with large-scale and high performance.
• Impact driven - use data to make sure every task moves the needle and utilize your resources to maximize the team's impact.
• Team player with strong communication skills and someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment.
• Creative, solution-oriented, and able to maintain a ‘can do’ attitude, with the ability to work efficiently under pressure and uncertainty. Adapt quickly to changing business needs.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• B.Sc in computer science or equivalent.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with software development in Kotlin or Java.
• Experience with Frontend technologies.
• Leading multidisciplinary team.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Expertise in the Spring Framework.
• Proficient in both relational (e.g., MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB).
• Familiarity with message queue technologies such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar.