Senior Lead Software Engineer I

Job Description

Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track, so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.

We offer top-tier benefits and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:

Put People First – We foster an inclusive, flexible, and fun workplace.

Create Clarity – Open communication drives trust and results.

Get Things Done – We focus, prioritize, and deliver with excellence.

Deliver with Heart – We lead with kindness, humility, and strong teamwork.

Listen to Our Customers – Their needs drive our innovation.

Barclays has entered into an agreement to acquire Best Egg with closing expected to take place in Q2 2026. This acquisition will give us the resources and capital to continue on our mission and drive our strategy forward. With an aligned culture, lower cost of funds, and increased employee growth opportunities across a global brand, we are excited about the future of the Best Egg brand under the Barclays umbrella.

We are looking for collaborative, innovative team players who like to solve problems. There will also be immense opportunities for those willing to dive in. If you’re inspired by growth and want to make a real difference, Best Egg is the place for you.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.

The Job

Senior Lead Software Engineers are senior technical leaders responsible for architecting, delivering, and scaling complex, high-impact engineering solutions at Best Egg. They shape the technical direction of the platform, mentor engineers across levels, and collaborate deeply with cross-functional partners to ensure systems are secure, performant, reliable, and aligned with business strategy.

Senior Lead Engineers operate at the intersection of architecture, execution, and organizational influence. They bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and production-grade operations. They are hands-on builders who set the engineering bar and drive continuous improvement.

This role owns critical systems, leads complex feature delivery, mentors engineers, and contributes to domain-level architectural strategy.

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
• Own end-to-end implementation, deployment, and operational support for complex systems.
• Lead design discussions, create architecture diagrams, and drive sound technical decision-making.
• Conduct deep code reviews focused on correctness, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of critical systems.
• Translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and challenge assumptions where needed.

Collaboration & Influence

• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, Cloud Ops, and QA to ensure alignment.
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Participate in cross-team discussions to support integrations, sequencing, and dependency resolution.
• Influence the organization to prioritize data governance in all their data and software solutions.

Mentorship & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Mentor Software Engineer I/II, Senior Software Engineers, and Lead Engineers.
• Support onboarding, domain knowledge transfer, and technical development.
• Model engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

In the first 90 days:

• Establish ownership of one or more critical services and deliver high-quality code.
• Build strong relationships across engineering, product, and architecture.
• Demonstrate mastery of system architecture and operational readiness.

In 6 - 12 months:

• Lead delivery of complex initiatives within domain scope.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance in measurable ways.
• Raise engineering standards and influence team practices.

Technical Expertise:

• 6–8+ years of professional engineering experience (10+ for deeply technical stacks).
• Advanced experience with distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, or complex front-end platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Python, .NET, Go, or JavaScript frameworks.
• Solid understanding of SQL/NoSQL models, data design, performance tuning, and caching.
• Experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, or RDS.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using Docker/ECS/EKS (preferred).

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated engineering leadership, mentoring, and strong code-review practices.
• Skilled in Agile development, iterative delivery, and collective ownership.
• Strong communicator able to collaborate across roles and disciplines.

Who you are:

• A builder who thrives on solving challenging technical problems.
• A mentor who lifts others and models engineering excellence.
• Someone who balances deep technical focus with strong collaboration.
• Expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and streaming technologies.
• Experience with Snowflake, Kafka, Lake Formation, or other analytics platforms.

$125,000 - $155,000 a year

In addition to semi-monthly salary payments, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.  Yearly incentive bonus target 20% of base salary.

Employee Benefits

Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):

·       Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program

·       Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short–

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company

holidays

·       Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options

·       Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts

·       Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs

·       Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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