Staff Platform Engineer

About Origence
With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, Origence delivers SaaS lending solutions that power credit unions across the United States. Our mission is to enable accessible, competitive lending while strengthening the financial ecosystem for credit unions, their members, and dealer partners.

We operate with a customer-first mindset and a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence. We invest in our people and empower them to innovate, improve, and drive measurable business impact.
About You
You are a self-driven, accountable professional who thrives in a fast-moving environment. You operate with an ownership mindset, are comfortable with ambiguity, and focus on solving business problems through automation, data, and process improvement. You are highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and motivated by measurable impact.

As a Staff Platform Engineer , you will lead the design and delivery of critical platform capabilities used across multiple product teams and ARTs. This is a hands-on technical leadership role - you will write production code, drive architecture in your domains, and lead execution of strategic platform initiatives.

You will operate at the intersection of deep engineering and cross-team enablement: turning organizational needs into scalable platform solutions, setting technical standards through implementation, and increasing adoption through practical developer experience improvements.
What You'll Be Doing

• Lead Platform Domain Architecture - Own architecture decisions for key platform domains such as CI/CD templates, infrastructure automation, observability, developer portals, and self-service workflows.
• Deliver Cross-Team Platform Initiatives - Drive end-to-end implementation of initiatives spanning multiple teams, balancing velocity, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Build High-Leverage Systems - Write production-quality code for critical platform systems including pipeline frameworks, internal APIs, automation services, and deployment orchestration.
• Raise Engineering Standards - Establish and enforce quality standards for design, testing, observability, and operational readiness across platform code and templates.
• Mentor and Multiply Impact - Coach Senior and Mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance to improve team capability and execution.
• Partner on Roadmap and Prioritization - Collaborate with the Director, Principal engineers, and product teams to shape platform priorities based on business goals and engineering pain points.
• Improve Developer Experience at Scale - Identify friction in developer workflows and deliver self-service capabilities that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery.
• Evaluate Emerging Technologies Pragmatically - Assess and introduce new tools and patterns (e.g., AI-assisted engineering workflows, platform automation enhancements) where they provide measurable value.

The Ideal Candidate
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related industry experience.

Must Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership and ownership of complex systems
• Strong proficiency in at least two general-purpose languages: C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Go
• System design and architecture experience for production systems used by multiple teams, including tradeoff analysis and maintainability planning
• Platform engineering or developer tooling experience building CI/CD systems, internal tools, developer portals, or infrastructure automation
• Azure cloud expertise with strong working knowledge of services such as Container Apps, App Services, Azure DevOps, API Management, networking, and IAM
• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise in Terraform (preferred) or equivalent, including reusable module design and multi-environment patterns
• Strong communication and influence skills with ability to drive technical alignment across teams without direct authority
• Mentorship track record helping other engineers grow through coaching, design review, and technical leadership

Nice to Have

• Experience defining and scaling internal developer platform capabilities
• Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or deep observability implementation experience
• Azure DevOps pipeline architecture experience (template libraries, governance, service connection strategy)
• Experience driving Blue/Green deployments and disaster recovery improvements
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into engineering workflows
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering productivity measurement
• Experience in financial services, credit unions, or regulated environments
• Open-source contributions or technical writing/public speaking

Specialized Skills

• Ownership and accountability mindset with strong decision-making, communication, and analytical skills
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives while collaborating across architecture, security, and product engineering
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain tradeoffs to both engineers and leadership
• Familiarity with modern AI engineering workflows including GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, and practical LLM-assisted automation
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing strategy, code review, and operational readiness
• Ability to break large initiatives into well-scoped deliverables and guide execution across contributors

Why you should apply:

• Flexible Working Environment
• Paid Time Off
• 401k (8% match)
• College Tuition Benefits/ Tuition Reimbursement
• Good Benefits options
• Company Culture! Cultural and Holiday celebrations, Theme days like Star Wars Day & Bring your Kids to Work Day, Monthly Townhalls and Quarterly Company Meetings that ensure awareness, inclusion, and transparency.

The starting salary range for this full-time position in Irvine, CA is $147900 - $184900 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors. Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals. Bonuses are awarded at company's discretion on an individual basis.

Origence is an equal opportunity employer. All recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be based upon an individuals' qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, military service, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.