Lead Software Engineer

Green Dot Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Green Dot Corporation is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to rearchitect its Banking as a Service platform for the future using cloud-native techniques. You will build the next generation banking and payments platform and advance CI/CD, cloud migration, and test-driven development practices.

You will design scalable distributed solutions, work on complex API integration projects, and document flows with diagrams.

Qualifications

• Requirements include: strong C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
• Cloud-native development in Azure or AWS.
• APIs and web services design with REST, OAuth2, OpenAPI, SOAP/XML.
• Microservices architecture and event-driven patterns.
• DevOps and delivery with GitHub, CI/CD, pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
• Observability using dashboards (Datadog, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Lead API and microservices design for BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
• Collaborate with product/architecture teams to define technical requirements.
• Mentor team members and enforce CI/CD, testing, and observability best practices.
• Ensure SLA compliance and contribute to monitoring and alerting systems.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve reliability.
• Drive long-term technical strategy and document architectural decisions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for adoption and refactor code for flexibility.

Skills

C#

.NET

ASP.NET

SQL Server

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

APIM

Azure

Azure SQL

Cosmos DB

Key Vault

Datadog

Grafana

GitHub

TeamCity

CI/CD

Job description

We’re looking for talented professionals to join us in bringing smart money management and payment solutions to everyone’s fingertips.

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

Job Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Required Qualifications

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).