Distinguished Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish the company's multi-year technical strategy as the top individual contributor in Technology, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer.

• Develop and publish the enterprise target architecture encompassing originations, servicing, marketplace, data, and AI.

• Oversee the enterprise agent architecture across servicing, collections, dealer, originations, engineering, and back-office workflows.

• Create governed agent access to business capabilities, data, and tools utilizing the Model Context Protocol.

• Define agent identity, authorization, observability, evaluation, cost controls, policy boundaries, and audit records.

• Design and manage the migration strategy from on-premises infrastructure to AWS for transactional workloads and Databricks for analytical tasks.

• Establish data platform architecture for change-data-capture ingestion, streaming, and a modern data warehouse.

• Architect real-time pricing, credit model serving, scorecard updates, and high-throughput experimentation.

• Manage unified vehicle inventory, consumer search, and lead-routing marketplace architecture.

• Specify AI-native software requirements, generation, review, testing, deployment, analyzers, and gates.

• Oversee performance instrumentation, latency remediation, peak-event readiness, and degradation controls.

• Drive the organization towards owned platforms with clear contracts and incremental delivery.

• Engage hands-on in design reviews, proofs of concept, code reviews, and incident analysis.

• Influence teams and executives without formal authority and mentor staff and principal engineers.

• Ensure that security, privacy, auditability, and regulatory requirements are integrated into architectural decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field; or equivalent professional experience.

• A minimum of 10 years in software engineering or a similar level of experience.

• Proven experience in setting and executing multi-year technical strategy at an enterprise scale as an individual contributor.

• Expertise in distributed systems architecture and at least two defined areas: agentic or LLM-based systems in production; large-scale cloud migration; modern data platform and lakehouse architecture; machine learning platform and model serving; or high-traffic consumer or marketplace applications.

• Experience owning architecture for agentic or LLM-based systems that have achieved production status.

• Demonstrated leadership in a legacy-to-modern migration with production revenue implications.

• Practical experience in reading code, writing proofs of concept, participating in design reviews, and engaging in incident analysis.

• Proven ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries, including significant impact at the executive level.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Capability to mentor staff and principal engineers while enhancing the technical proficiency of engineers not directly managed.

• Experience in delivering solutions within a regulated industry or ability to operate within audit, security, and compliance frameworks.

• Degrees must be obtained from accredited institutions recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual variable bonus in cash and equity.

• 401(K) matching program.

• Adoption assistance.

• Parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• A variety of non-standard benefits.

• Flexible work-life balance.

• Casual work environment.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous improvement.

• Potential premium for qualified candidates residing in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, or San Diego.