Lead Software Engineer BaaS Team

Lead Software Engineer

Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the BaaS team to support partner onboarding and platform enhancements. The role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that enable embedded financial services. The position requires strong back-end C# development, Azure expertise, and comfort working across development and QA functions in an external partner-facing environment.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
• Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to monitoring and alerting systems.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
• Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform and create decision documentation.
• Evaluate and champion adoption of emerging technologies.
• Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features.
• Build durable and flexible systems that favor configurability over customization.

Experience Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Back-end C# and.NET development experience.
• Hands-on experience with Azure native services such as API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault.
• Experience with container technologies and caching frameworks.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI.
• Familiarity with event-driven and microservice architectures including Service Bus and Event Hubs.
• Experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog or Grafana.
• Proficiency with Git, DevOps, Agile Scrum, and security best practices including PCI DSS and SOC 2.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment for iterative project turnarounds on customer-facing applications.
• Preferred: Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms, familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management, and contributions to open-source projects or publications.