Lead Software Engineer I

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 institutionworking together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg youll find a culture grounded in our core valuesputting 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 peoples financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us we offer expanded opportunities for growth development and career mobility across a global organizationwhile continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.

Were looking for collaborative curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

The Lead Software Engineer I 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. You will work closely with senior engineers and architects to implement scalable secure and maintainable systems.

Technical Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Design develop and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
• Works 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.

Cloud Engineering & Operational Support

• Build and enhance distributed event-driven and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
• Apply cloud best practicessecurity cost awareness performance and operational efficiencyunder 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.

Team Collaboration & Mentorship

• Collaborate effectively with Product Architecture InfoSec and DevOps 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 612 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 NoSQL) such as DynamoDB RDS PostgreSQL DocumentDB.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines Docker and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch 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.
• Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership.
• Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates.

$80000 - $110000 a year

Who You Are

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. Youre motivated by delivering value enhancing system quality and contributing steadily to a strong engineering culture.

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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Required Experience:

IC