Software Development Engineer

Position: Staff Software Development Engineer
Location: Northern

# Staff Software Development Engineer United States1 day agoID 2255459

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Regional Finance (Regional Management Corp.)## Description 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.
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