Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence—enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique. We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

• Lead design, development, and delivery of high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to shape technical solutions.
• Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns.
• Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.

• Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
• Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency—under guidance of senior engineers.
• Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability.

• Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, Info Sec, and Dev Ops to deliver well-aligned solutions.
• Contribute to a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• In the first 90 days:
  Deliver high-quality, production-ready code and contribute meaningfully to team goals; build strong working relationships within engineering and product teams.

• In 6–12 months:
  Co-ownership of core components or services; co-lead development of one or more important services with increasing autonomy; help improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

• What you bring:
  
  3–5 years of professional software engineering experience; strong backend development experience with Java and Python; solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization; working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices; experience with modern databases (relational and No
  
  SQL) such as Dynamo
  
  DB, RDS, Postgre
  
  SQL, Document
  
  DB; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred); experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Cloud Watch or Datadog; ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.

• Collaboration & Leadership:
  Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams; comfortable working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership; ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates.

$80,000 - $110,000 a year

You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys building reliable systems and helping others grow. You are collaborative, curious, and proactive in improving both the product and the engineering process. You balance solid technical judgment with the willingness to dive into details. You’re motivated by delivering value, enhancing system quality, and contributing steadily to a strong engineering culture.

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid 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 discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more

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