Lead Software Engineer II – Java & Python

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.

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

The Lead Software Engineer II plays an important role in building and enhancing engineering solutions across the organization. This role focuses on designing and delivering reliable, high‑quality software while contributing to technical discussions, improving engineering practices, and supporting team execution.

• Design, develop, and deliver high‑quality software iteratively and incrementally.
• Work closely with senior leaders to shape 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 the 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.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

• 4–6 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, and 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.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership.
• Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates.

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, and you’re motivated by delivering value, enhancing system quality, and contributing steadily to a strong engineering culture.

$100,000 – $135,000 a year plus a yearly incentive bonus target of 20% of base salary.

• 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!

In compliance with the CCPA, Best Egg is fully committed to handling the personal information and data of employees and job applications responsibly with respect and due care.