Lead Software Engineer
Green Dot Corporation
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Job summary
Green Dot Corporation seeks a Lead Software Engineer to rearchitect its Banking as a Service platform using cloud-native approaches. Build a scalable payments platform and advance CI/CD, cloud migration, and test-driven development.
Design highly scalable systems and work on complex API integrations with partners, documenting decisions and ensuring quality and security. You will own critical components, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to shape the future of our platform while
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
- Six years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or related role.
- Strong portfolio showing secure, standards-compliant code across Microsoft stack and open-source tech.
- Experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
- Cloud-native design and hosting in Azure or AWS, including APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault.
- RESTful APIs, OAuth2, OpenAPI; SOAP/XML/JSON representations.
- Microservices architecture, event-driven patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs).
- DevOps & delivery: Git/GitHub, CI/CD, TeamCity, blue-green deployments.
- Observability: Datadog, Grafana.
- Agile development: Scrum, XP.
- Security & compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of APIs and microservices for BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver robust solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD and testing.
- 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 and document options/decisions.
- Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
- Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features; enable configurability over customization.
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Job description
Location Requirement This position is open only to candidates who currently reside in one of the following approved locations: West Los Angeles, CA
Lead Software Engineer: Rearchitect Green Dot Corporation’s Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform for the future using cloud native techniques. Build the next generation banking and payments platform. Contribute towards moving the team forward in continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration, and test-driven development practices. Design highly scalable distributed solutions to handle large amounts of data. Work on complex integration projects by working out API contracts, identifying gaps, and working out optimal solutions. Document and demonstrate solutions by developing flowcharts, sequence diagrams and business process flow diagrams. Organize and run working sessions by setting up agendas, driving discussions towards resolutions, and delegating actions to participants. Own a component or capability during a project delivery stage and be on point for fulfilling the responsibility. Ensure software is designed and built with quality, maintainability, scalability, availability, extensibility, security, portability, and testability. Partner with product teams to shape the future state of products. Actively identify technical debt and work with internal stakeholders to address debt on an ongoing basis. Understand evolving industry trends and identify new technologies and patterns which should be adopted, and old technologies which should be deprecated. Participate in code reviews, coach team members, and learn from receiving feedback.
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust 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 the development of monitoring and alerting systems.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.
- Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
- Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change – favor configurability over customization.
- Education and experience: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation.
- A strong portfolio showing secure, standards-compliant code across multiple platforms, including the Microsoft stack and open-source technologies.
- Experience must include:
- Languages and frameworks: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
- Cloud: Designing, developing, and hosting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS. This includes Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, plus container technologies and caching frameworks.
- APIs and web services: RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications. Also, SOAP and XML/JSON business object representations.
- Architecture: Designing and building microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs), and software design patterns and anti-patterns. Writing code for scalable, reliable systems.
- DevOps and delivery: Git and GitHub, CI/CD processes, build tools (TeamCity), pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
- Observability: Implementing and using observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
- Methodology: Agile development, including Scrum and Extreme Programming.
- Security and compliance: Security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
- Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.
- Familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management.
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications.
- Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
- Ability to meet the location requirement outlined above
The targeted base salary for this position is $139,900 to $199,300 per year. The final compensation will be determined by a number of factors such as qualifications, expertise, and the candidate’s geographical location.
Green Dot is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, we encourage you to let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs in a way that respects your privacy and ensures equal opportunity. Our goal is to support every applicant in showcasing their talents and potential.
At Green Dot Corporation, we value diversity and strive for fair and inclusive hiring practices. However, we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout the duration of employment, without the need for current or future sponsorship.
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) is a financial technology and registered bank holding company committed to transforming the way people and businesses manage and move money, and making financial wellbeing and empowerment more accessible for all. Our proprietary technology enables faster, more efficient electronic payments and money management, powering intuitive and seamless ways for people to spend, send, control and save their money. Through our retail and direct bank, we offer a broad set of financial products to consumers and businesses including debit, prepaid, checking, credit and payroll cards, as well as robust money processing services, tax refunds, cash deposits and disbursements. Our Banking as a Service ("BaaS") platform enables a growing list of America's most prominent consumer and technology companies to design and deploy their own customized banking and money movement solutions for customers and partners in the US and internationally. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Provo, UT, our company has served more than 33 million customers directly, and now operates primarily as a "branchless bank" with more than 90,000 retail distribution locations nationwide. Green Dot Bank is a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation and member of the FDIC.
We build simple, seamless and secure financial tools for our customers and powerful solutions that fuel engagement, trust and value for partners.
We give you the power to bank seamlessly, affordably and with confidence.
Access should not be a privilege, and we envision a world where modern banking and money management are at everyone’s fingertips—where banking enhances the flow of life.
Stewardship, Trust, Action, High Performance, and Teamwork.
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