FinTech Architect & Tech Lead for Scalable Platforms

Regional Management Corp.

Greer (SC)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) with company match
PTO and paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Employee assistance program

Job summary

Regional Management Corp. is seeking a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to lead architecture, development, and modernization of mission-critical FinTech platforms. You will shape long-term tech strategy for lending, payments, and financial operations.

This role requires hands-on leadership, experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and AI-enabled tooling, and a focus on security, compliance, and scalable systems across regulated environments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including staff/principal/architect-level roles.
  • Proven success delivering enterprise FinTech, banking, lending, or payments platforms.
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the long-term technology strategy for customer-facing and backend financial platforms.
  • Lead architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
  • Architect and deliver high-volume, mission-critical applications across lending, payments, and financial operations.
  • Mentor senior engineers and promote engineering excellence across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems
Microservices
API development
Event-driven architecture
Kubernetes
Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kafka
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Kubernetes
CI/CD tools

Job description

Regional Management Corp. is seeking a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to lead architecture, development, and modernization of mission-critical FinTech platforms. You will shape long-term tech strategy for lending, payments, and financial operations.

This role requires hands-on leadership, experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and AI-enabled tooling, and a focus on security, compliance, and scalable systems across regulated environments.

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