Lead Software Engineer – FinTech, Hybrid (West LA)

Green Dot Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Green Dot Corporation seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure APIs and microservices for a high-throughput fintech platform. You will guide architectural decisions, set coding standards, and mentor teams while collaborating with product managers and architects.

The role focuses on building resilient, observable systems in a structured hybrid setup, with in-office presence three days per week and flexible remote work on other days.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support stack.
• Design, develop, and oversee large-scale software systems for high performance and scalability.
• Define technical requirements and ensure robust solutions in collaboration with product and architecture teams.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, CI/CD, testing, and observability.
• Ensure SLA compliance and contribute to monitoring and alerting implementations.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve reliability.
• Shape the architectural strategy for BaaS platform and document options and decisions.
• Champion evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.

Skills

C#

.NET

SQL

Azure

RESTful API design

OAuth2

OpenAPI

Microservices

Event-driven

Git

DevOps

Agile Scrum

Security best practices

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Service Bus

Event Hubs

CI/CD

Job description

Green Dot Corporation seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure APIs and microservices for a high-throughput fintech platform. You will guide architectural decisions, set coding standards, and mentor teams while collaborating with product managers and architects.

The role focuses on building resilient, observable systems in a structured hybrid setup, with in-office presence three days per week and flexible remote work on other days.