[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer II @Bestegg
Apr 01, 2025 - Bestegg is hiring a remote Lead Software Engineer II. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
The Lead Software Engineer II is responsible for developing robust, scalable backend services that power the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining server-side application logic using Python in a cloud-native AWS environment.
The Best Egg native app enables customers to view and service their loans, providing secure and easy access to account information, payment management, and other self-service features. It is a critical part of our digital experience and customer engagement strategy. Best Egg Financial Health is a judgment-free, financial safe space where customers gain practical insights into how their financial decisions impact their ability to access money.
You'll be working closely with a highly skilled and growing team to transform how customers interact with credit by enabling data-driven tools such as financial forecasting, budgeting recommendations, loan servicing, and analytics services that support an intelligent and intuitive user experience.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain backend systems using Python in an AWS cloud-native environment
- Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and services that support mobile and web applications
- Develop and support backend services used by the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms
- Integrate with data pipelines and analytics services to power real-time financial tools
- Ensure systems are monitored, secure, and reliable using observability and logging best practices
- Collaborate cross-functionally with front-end developers, mobile engineers, DevOps, data scientists, and product managers
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and team ceremonies within Agile/Scrum processes
- Write clear technical documentation and contribute to design discussions and sprint planning
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- 3–5 years of backend development experience using Python
- Strong experience with cloud-native development in AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Experience supporting mobile app backends is a strong plus
- Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes) is a plus
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable code
- Ability to create design docs, mockups, and lead whiteboard discussions
- Track record solving problems and delivering high-quality solutions
Requirements
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including coaching and mentoring team members
- Ability to take ownership of significant features or services from design through deployment
- Comfortable interacting with colleagues across engineering, product, design and test engineering
- High self-efficacy, well-organized, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Passionate about reducing manual and repetitive work when designing and building backend tools and infrastructure
Culture
- People-first mindset with a focus on inclusion, collaboration, and clear communication
- Driven to prioritize what matters and deliver results with urgency and excellence
- Team-oriented, and always listening to improve the customer experience
- Advocate and practitioner of Agile methodologies
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Values knowledge sharing and continuous improvement
Benefits
- 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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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 01, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
