Senior Director, FinTech Engineering & Payments

Ring Inc; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 241,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

GoodLeap’s B2B organization powers the Pros platform used by contractors for end‑to‑end financing and payments processes. The Senior Director of Software Engineering will lead the Funding & Payments engineering team, overseeing architecture, delivery, and operation of underwriting, submissions, funding and payments workflows.

This role demands hands‑on leadership and architectural resilience in a fast‑paced financial tech environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles managing managers and cross‑functional teams.
• Proven track record leading engineering for complex, regulated fintech, lending, or payments platforms
• Deep experience with distributed, event‑driven microservices architectures supporting high‑volume transactional systems
• Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems, loan origination or servicing pipelines, or payments processing infrastructure
• Strong grasp of cloud‑native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
• Track record of scaling an engineering organization through growth — hiring, structuring teams, and expanding scope
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable operating across Product, Risk, and Compliance

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team, with a defined path to expanding ownership across the full Pros Financing & Payments engineering organization
• Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, building a high‑performance, accountable engineering culture
• Own hiring, calibration, and career development for a team operating in an expanding domain
• Define and communicate a multi‑quarter engineering roadmap tied to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes
• Own the architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting decisioning, submission and approval workflows, funding, and payments processing
• Guide technical decisions across a distributed, event‑driven services ecosystem supporting high‑volume, time‑sensitive financial transactions
• Set and enforce engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability appropriate to a regulated lending and payments environment
• Champion modern engineering practices — including AI‑assisted and agentic development workflows — to raise team velocity and quality
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align engineering delivery with contractor‑facing financing and payments outcomes
• Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, balancing speed, risk, and system stability
• Define and track KPIs across financing/payments transaction volume, submission‑to‑close conversion, and fraud/delinquency risk metrics
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation across the Financing & Payments service estate
• Manage technical debt and platform scalability as transaction volume and product surface area grow
• Establish the operating rigor — on‑call, incident response, SLAs — required for systems that gate real money movement

Skills

Engineering leadership

Fintech/payments

Distributed microservices

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

APIs

Job description

GoodLeap’s B2B organization powers the Pros platform used by contractors for end‑to‑end financing and payments processes. The Senior Director of Software Engineering will lead the Funding & Payments engineering team, overseeing architecture, delivery, and operation of underwriting, submissions, funding and payments workflows.

This role demands hands‑on leadership and architectural resilience in a fast‑paced financial tech environment.