Lending Technology Lead | Platform Implementation & Systems Integration

Swoon; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoon is partnering with a major financial institution to hire a Senior Engineer for Lending Technology & Enterprise Integrations in the Chicago area. Hybrid schedule with two onsite days per week at Chicago or Naperville, IL.

The role focuses on implementing and integrating a securities-based lending platform, requiring deep software engineering and a strong understanding of lending technology and enterprise data flows.

Qualifications

• Experience in lending technology and enterprise integrations.
• Strong understanding of APIs, data flows, and system dependencies.
• Hands-on software engineering with ability to work in detail.
• Experience in enterprise banking environments is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the integration of a new securities-based lending platform within a large enterprise banking environment.
• Analyze existing systems to map integration points, interfaces, and data movement.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product, lending, and QA teams on design and implementation.
• Troubleshoot integration challenges across upstream/downstream systems and vendors.
• Translate complex technical concepts for engineering and business stakeholders.

Skills

Software engineering

Systems integration

APIs

Data flows

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LoanIQ

Systematics

Supernova

Loan origination

Job description

Senior Engineer | Lending Technology & Enterprise Integrations

Pay: $65–75/HR W2

Duration: 12 months

Schedule: Hybrid, currently 2 days onsite per week

Location: Chicago or Naperville, IL

Swoon is partnering with a major financial institution on a Senior Engineer opportunity supporting the implementation and integration of a new securities-based lending platform.

The team is looking for someone with a strong software engineering background who also understands lending technology. You do not need to come from a Technical Lead or Delivery Lead background. The priority is finding someone who can get into the technical details of how lending systems work, understand how applications and data connect across an enterprise environment, and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

The program is currently working through existing systems, future-state requirements, lending platform capabilities, and how the new solution will integrate into a complex banking technology ecosystem. This engineer will work closely with architecture, development, product, lending, and integration teams as the solution moves through implementation.

What you'll get to work on:

• Support the implementation and integration of a new securities-based lending platform within a large enterprise banking environment
• Work across lending applications and existing banking systems to understand integration points, interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and technical requirements
• Partner with engineers and architects on the design and implementation of integrations between the lending platform and downstream/upstream systems
• Analyze existing applications and workflows to understand current-state functionality and help determine how capabilities should transition into the future solution
• Work with APIs, interfaces, application integrations, and data movement across multiple enterprise platforms
• Troubleshoot technical integration challenges and work across development, architecture, QA, product, and vendor teams to resolve them
• Translate technical concepts, constraints, and dependencies clearly for both engineering and business stakeholders
• Support testing, migration, deployment, and implementation activities as the new platform is introduced into the broader technology environment

You’ll be a strong fit if you have:

• A strong software engineering or application development background with meaningful hands‑on technical experience
• Experience working within lending technology, including commercial lending, business banking, private banking, securities-based lending, mortgage, or another legitimate lending environment
• Strong experience with enterprise application integrations and an understanding of APIs, interfaces, data flows, system dependencies, and how applications communicate
• The ability to understand existing application architecture and work through how a new platform should integrate into a larger technology ecosystem
• Experience supporting technology implementations, migrations, integrations, or modernization initiatives within a large enterprise environment
• A solid understanding of lending workflows and the technology supporting the lending lifecycle
• Experience with Loan IQ, Systematics, Supernova, loan‑origination platforms, collateral‑management systems, or comparable lending technology is highly valuable
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to independently dig into technical issues rather than relying on an architect or project manager to define the solution
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work comfortably across engineering, architecture, product, business, and leadership teams
• Financial services or large banking experience is strongly preferred
• A bachelor's degree is strongly preferred

This role is not focused on project schedules, governance, Scrum facilitation, or traditional delivery management. The team is specifically interested in someone with real software engineering depth who can operate within a complex lending technology environment and communicate well across the organization.

The strongest candidates will be engineers who understand both the technology underneath a lending platform and the business workflows that technology is supporting.