Staff Software Development Engineer

Regional Management Corp.; Georgia; Hybride; USD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Regional Management Corp. is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to act as the hands-on technical lead for a product domain within our consumer lending platform.

You will own architecture and delivery of secure, scalable services on cloud infrastructure, bringing AI capabilities into those services safely and compliantly with financial regulations. The role partners with Product, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Security, mentors SDEs, and helps define engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience leading 1–3 teams and mentoring SDEs.
• Familiarity with fintech regulations, security, and data privacy.

Responsabilités

• Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the technical direction, architecture, and implementation for your product domain, spanning 1-3 teams. Apply and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and architectural principles within your domain, and contribute to org-wide standards set by Principal engineers. Drive cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven designs that align with the enterprise architecture. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to deliver scalable business solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies for your domain and recommend solutions that improve performance, security, and operational efficiency, escalating cross-cutting choices to Principal SDEs and Architecture. Lead technical delivery of modernization initiatives and customer-facing applications within your domain.
• Software Development Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality supporting critical lending operations. Build resilient systems capable of processing high-volume transactions with strong reliability and performance requirements. Develop and maintain microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and cloud-native applications. Lead code reviews and uphold software quality standards for your teams. Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues affecting business-critical systems. Optimize applications for scalability, availability, maintainability, and customer experience.
• AI First Development Integrate LLM services (such as AWS Bedrock or OpenAI APIs) into backend services, including prompt design, response handling, and guardrails. Build retrieval pipelines on PostgreSQL with pgvector, extending our existing relational data platform. Deploy and monitor ML and AI model inference on AWS, including latency, cost, quality, and drift. Ensure AI features meet data privacy, security, and compliance requirements, including handling of customer PII, auditability of AI outputs, and fair-lending obligations.
• FinTech Platform Development Design systems for your domain across lending, servicing, payments, customer onboarding, collections, or credit decisioning. Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure systems meet regulatory and governance requirements. Implement secure software development practices and ensure adherence to data privacy standards. Support integrations with third-party financial service providers, payment processors, identity verification services, and credit bureaus. Build data-driven solutions that enhance customer acquisition, underwriting, servicing, and portfolio performance.
• Engineering Excellence Champion CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code,

Connaissances

Technical leadership

Architecture

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Security & compliance

AI integration

Mentorship

API design

Outils

AWS

Bedrock/OpenAI APIs

PostgreSQL

pgvector

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code

Description du poste

Take your career to the next level! In the last few years our goal has been expansion, creating growth opportunities for many of our team members. Not only are we serious about growth, but we are also serious about helping our customers during hard financial times. We take pride in providing solutions and offering a helping hand, not only to our customers but also to the communities we serve. As we continue to expand and grow into a national leader in consumer financing, we invite you to consider joining our team. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in people's lives and bringing a personal touch to finance, we'd love to have you on board! We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Development Engineer to be the hands-on technical lead for a product domain within our consumer lending platform. This role owns the architecture and delivery of secure, scalable platform services on cloud infrastructure, and brings AI capabilities into those services safely and in compliance with financial-services regulation. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and the unique challenges of fintech, including security, compliance, data privacy, and transaction reliability. As a Staff Engineer, you will partner with Product, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Security, mentor SDEs and Senior SDEs, and contribute to the engineering standards set by our Principal engineers and architecture group.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the technical direction, architecture, and implementation for your product domain, spanning 1-3 teams. Apply and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and architectural principles within your domain, and contribute to org-wide standards set by Principal engineers. Drive cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven designs that align with the enterprise architecture. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to deliver scalable business solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies for your domain and recommend solutions that improve performance, security, and operational efficiency, escalating cross-cutting choices to Principal SDEs and Architecture. Lead technical delivery of modernization initiatives and customer-facing applications within your domain.
• Software Development Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality supporting critical lending operations. Build resilient systems capable of processing high-volume transactions with strong reliability and performance requirements. Develop and maintain microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and cloud-native applications. Lead code reviews and uphold software quality standards for your teams. Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues affecting business-critical systems. Optimize applications for scalability, availability, maintainability, and customer experience.
• AI First Development Integrate LLM services (such as AWS Bedrock or OpenAI APIs) into backend services, including prompt design, response handling, and guardrails. Build retrieval pipelines on PostgreSQL with pgvector, extending our existing relational data platform. Deploy and monitor ML and AI model inference on AWS, including latency, cost, quality, and drift. Ensure AI features meet data privacy, security, and compliance requirements, including handling of customer PII, auditability of AI outputs, and fair-lending obligations.
• FinTech Platform Development Design systems for your domain across lending, servicing, payments, customer onboarding, collections, or credit decisioning. Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure systems meet regulatory and governance requirements. Implement secure software development practices and ensure adherence to data privacy standards. Support integrations with third-party financial service providers, payment processors, identity verification services, and credit bureaus. Build data-driven solutions that enhance customer acquisition, underwriting, servicing, and portfolio performance.
• Engineering Excellence Champion CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code,