Lead Software Engineer - BaaS API & Microservices

Eliassen Group

Los Angeles (CA)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 96,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for our BaaS team in Los Angeles. This contract-to-hire role supports partner onboarding and platform enhancements, building scalable, secure systems for embedded financial services across our partner ecosystem.

The position offers W2 benefits and a path to full-time employment as the West LA office opens, with hybrid work including remote and on-site collaboration. Competitive rate and comprehensive benefits available.

Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
Strong portfolio demonstrating secure and standards-compliant code across multiple platforms.
Fluency with C#, .NET, SQL, Azure native services (APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault), containers, and caching frameworks.
Deep understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications.
Familiarity with event-driven and microservice architecture patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs).
Hands-on experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment delivering iterative project turnarounds for mission and revenue critical, customer-facing applications.
Deep knowledge of Git, DevOps, Agile Scrum, and security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).

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 the 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 and functionality.
Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change and favoring configurability over customization.