Software Engineering Leader

Software Engineering Leader

Great America Financial Services is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth.

We Are Looking to Add a Key Member to Our Technology Group!

As a Software Engineering Leader supporting Core and Digital Banking, you will lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable technology solutions across Great America's core and digital banking environment. You will provide technical and strategic leadership across the development, integration, modernization, and ongoing support of business-critical financial systems that enable lending, servicing, payments, funding, and related customer and operational processes.

This role partners closely with Product Owners, business leaders, technology teams, and external providers to translate business, customer, and regulatory needs into sustainable engineering solutions. You will establish strong engineering practices, guide architectural and technology decisions, and promote disciplined delivery, operational resiliency, security, and continuous improvement. Through a combination of people leadership, technical expertise, and financial systems knowledge, you will strengthen team capabilities, improve platform performance and reliability, and support the continued evolution of Great America's banking technology ecosystem.

As a Software Engineering Leader, you will:

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Salesforce engineers and admins, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
• Advocate for the team's priorities within the broader engineering and product organization.
• Recruit and retain top Salesforce talent.
• Promote a Dev Ops mindset and continuous delivery culture.
• Create inclusive, high-trust environments that empower individuals and teams

Technical Delivery & Innovation

• Own end-to-end delivery of Salesforce initiatives, ensuring quality, timeliness, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Architecture & Development

• Implement secure programming practices to avoid platform vulnerabilities.
• Lead development efforts using CI/CD tools (e.g., Copado), source control (Git), and test-driven development.
• Optimize existing features and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability.
• Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting for deployed solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application and data issues, ensuring platform health.

Integration & Data Collaboration

• Design and support inbound/outbound integrations for a given core/digital banking systems
• Provide OpenAPI Specifications (OAS) for external teams integrating with core/digital banking systems
• Collaborate with non-Salesforce teams on data modeling, access, and integration concerns.
• Extend support for functional and non-functional testing teams to ensure quality delivery.

Collaboration & Agile Execution

• Partner closely with Product Owners and cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, demos, grooming, and standups.
• Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and process improvements.
• Support cross-team dependencies and contribute to Agile Release Train planning (SAFe framework experience is a plus).
• Establish and enforce development standards, code quality, and deployment processes.
• Stay current with Salesforce platform capabilities, releases, and ecosystem trends.
• Drive innovation through evaluation and adoption of new Salesforce features, tools, and integrations.
• Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in Salesforce Governance COE and Architecture Review Boards to uphold platform integrity and best practices.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• 5+ years of technical leadership and people management experience, including leading engineers responsible for business-critical financial systems.
• 7–8 years of hands-on software engineering experience supporting core banking, digital banking, lending, leasing, servicing, payments, or closely related financial platforms.
• Proven expertise in:
• Core and digital banking architecture, engineering delivery, modernization, and lifecycle management across vendor-packaged and custom-built solutions.
• Financial workflows such as loan origination and servicing, payments, funding and booking, general ledger integration, customer account servicing, and document workflows.
• .NET/C#, APIs, microservices, event-driven integration, and enterprise integration patterns for secure, reliable transaction processing.
• Data modeling, SQL, stored procedures, reconciliation, data quality controls, and performance optimization for high-volume financial…