[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @Progressive Leasing

Role Description

We are currently hiring a Lead Software Engineer to help grow our company and ensure our mission is achieved! This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or at our corporate location in Utah.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG provides people with opportunity:

• Opportunity for inclusive collaboration
• Opportunity for innovation
• Opportunity for development

YOU ARE:

• A hands-on tech lead who codes daily and lives and breathes AI-assisted development.
• Expected to be in the codebase regularly, shipping production work alongside the team you lead.
• Passionate about developer experience, mentoring, and coaching.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:

• Write and ship production code regularly.
• Own technical decisions across a multi-service backend platform (C#/.NET and Java/Spring Boot), deployed on Kubernetes (AWS EKS).
• Use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) as a daily working tool.
• Build and champion internal AI-driven tooling and automation.
• Design and drive cross-service initiatives.
• Learn and stay current on how our lease-to-own business actually works.
• Collaborate and participate in developing solutions together in cross-discipline teams.
• Actively participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to evaluations as we select new software, tools, and AI capabilities.
• Participate in production support: deployments, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrate a high sense of ownership and accountability for work produced.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in a software engineering function.
• Real depth in at least one of C#/.NET or Java/Spring.
• Daily, hands-on fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent).
• Experience building internal tooling or automation that measurably reduces manual engineering work.
• Genuine curiosity about the business behind the code.
• Creative problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• A passion for enriching the day-to-day developer experience.
• Track record operating across multiple services/repos.
• Experience with cloud-native deployment (AWS EKS/Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• A desire to work cross-team, cross-stack.
• Strong fundamentals: async I/O patterns, resilience, API design, and financial/decimal-precision correctness.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Full Health Benefits; Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance + Paid Parental Leave
• Company Matched 401k
• Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays + Paid Volunteer Hours
• Employee Resource Groups (Black Inclusion Group, Women in Leadership, PRIDE, Adelante)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Charitable Gift Matching
• Job required equipment and services