Senior Software Engineer, Delivery

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Title of Role:
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery

Location:

United States (Remote, with quarterly onsite sessions in San Mateo, Columbus, or Austin)

Company Stage of Funding:
Public / Late‑Stage

Office Type:
Digital‑First (Remote with Quarterly Onsites)

Salary: $163,600 – $226,400 + Bonus + Equity

Our client is a leading AI‑powered lending platform partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. Their technology allows financial institutions to increase approvals while reducing loss rates and delivering fast, digital‑first lending experiences for consumers. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly with no document uploads, powered by advanced AI models and a modern credit decisioning platform.

The company operates as a digital‑first organization across the United States, with optional office hubs in California, Ohio, and Texas. Most employees join because they are passionate about the mission: enabling effortless credit access based on true risk rather than outdated metrics.

• Build, architect, and scale internal developer tools that power CI/CD, deployment workflows, testing environments, staging orchestration, and release automation.
• Identify friction in the create/build/test/deploy pipeline and design solutions that materially improve engineering velocity.
• Partner directly with product engineering teams to understand their workflows and ensure platform tools optimize quality, reliability, and speed.
• Collect and analyze data around system performance and developer usage to guide prioritization and feature development.
• Engineer safe, reliable deployment and rollback systems, including canary releases, automated health checks, and progressive delivery workflows.
• Design well‑observed, highly available platform services with strong logging, alerting, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Treat the platform like a product—engaging customers (internal teams), gathering insights, defining requirements, and iterating quickly.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working with at least two modern languages/frameworks (Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Type Script, Spring, React, or similar).
• 3+ years of experience scripting and supporting multiple AWS services (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, Lambda, API Gateway).
• 3+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD applications, including advanced deployment patterns (canary, automated rollbacks, post‑deploy checks).
• 3+ years of experience building observability systems—alerting, dashboards, logging—via Datadog, New Relic, Cloud Watch, etc.
• Hands‑on Kubernetes experience.

• Full‑stack software engineering experience.
• Background building or maintaining high‑volume, highly reliable CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Terraform, AWS CDK, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience (Bash).
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines with automated test coverage.
• Experience with platform tooling (ArgoCD, Backstage, Artifactory, etc.)
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across a fully remote team.
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments with high ownership.

• Base Salary: $163,600 – $226,400
• Bonus:
  Included
• Equity:
  Included
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision (HSA contributions included)
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 (immediate vesting)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous holiday, vacation, sick leave, and safety leave policies
• Parental, family care, and military leave
• Annual wellness, tech, and ergonomic stipends
• Quarterly in‑person offsites (travel fully covered)
• Social events, ERGs, and team‑building activities
• Office perks (when onsite): catered lunches, snacks, drinks

Salary Range: $163,600 – $226,400 base.