Senior FinTech Architect & Platform Leader

Regional Finance (Regional Management Corp.)

Greer (SC)

On-site

USD 230,000 - 290,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Job summary

Regional Finance (Regional Management Corp.) seeks a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to lead architecture, development, and modernization of mission-critical FinTech platforms. You will set technical direction across lending, payments, and financial operations, while ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant solutions in a highly regulated financial services environment.

You will mentor senior engineers, define coding standards, promote CI/CD, and drive modernization initiatives

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
8+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including leadership roles such as Staff/Principal Engineer or Architect.
Proven success delivering enterprise-scale FinTech, banking, lending, payments, or financial services platforms.
Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, API development, and event-driven architecture.
Lead adoption of AI-enabled software engineering practices and intelligent automation.
Design architectures supporting generative AI, agent frameworks, knowledge retrieval, and decision intelligence.
Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.
Proficiency in Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar languages.
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, and IaC.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve long-term technology strategy for customer-facing and backend financial platforms.
Lead architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven services, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
Drive modernization initiatives to improve scalability, performance, resiliency, and developer productivity.
Define engineering standards, patterns, and development best practices across teams.
Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, platforms, and product domains.
Drive improvements in scale, reliability, and operational excellence.
Architect and develop high-volume, mission-critical applications for lending, payments, and financial operations.
Lead design of microservices, APIs, workflow orchestration, and real-time processing systems.
Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for availability, security, resiliency, and compliance.
Review complex designs and contribute hands-on development when needed.
Champion modern CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, and DevSecOps.
Partner with Product, Risk, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations to deliver FinTech solutions.
Evaluate and integrate third-party fintech platforms, APIs, and cloud services.
Lead technical initiatives supporting digital transformation and future-state platform strategies.
Ensure adherence to financial regulations and security standards.
Incorporate secure coding practices and privacy-by-design principles.
Support audits, technology risk reviews, and regulatory examinations.
Strengthen enterprise cyber resilience with Security teams.
Mentor senior engineers and influence hiring for high-performing teams.
Promote code quality, architecture reviews, observability, and operational excellence.
Foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning.