Lead Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical direction and architecture for Bankjoy's financial empowerment product aimed at kids and families.

• Lead the design of solutions and quarterly planning efforts.

• Steer architectural and technology choices in alignment with product and business objectives.

• Ensure that systems comply with financial industry security, regulatory, and data privacy standards.

• Offer technical guidance and conduct code reviews.

• Decompose initiatives into milestones and deliverables while managing scope, dependencies, risks, and technical debt.

• Track delivery progress and communicate any risks or obstacles.

• Directly engage in coding, testing, debugging, and development tasks.

• Create and maintain backend services utilizing C#, .NET Core, and SQL Server.

• Develop frontend components using TypeScript and Angular.

• Contribute to or oversee mobile application development.

• Lead and mentor engineers through one-on-one sessions, feedback, and coaching.

• Hire and onboard new engineering talent.

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams on roadmaps, feature scopes, and technical estimates.

• Work alongside QA to establish testing standards, quality gates, and criteria for release readiness.

• Partner with platform and security teams to align on infrastructure and compliance requirements.

• Supervise unit test coverage, integration testing, and the quality of CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement practices for monitoring, alerting, and observability.

• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents with root cause analysis and retrospectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• A minimum of 2 years in a technical leadership or lead engineer position.

• Relevant experience in banking, payments, financial wellness, or financial empowerment technology; applicants lacking this background will not be considered.

• Strong expertise in C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework, and SQL Server.

• Strong proficiency in Angular and TypeScript.

• Ability to design scalable, secure, and high-performance systems within a regulated financial context.

• Experience leading engineering teams, providing direction, coaching engineers, and ensuring timely delivery.

• Comprehensive understanding of security, compliance, and data privacy requirements for financial applications.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Must be available to work during Eastern Time Zone hours.

• Comfortable working in a high-growth startup environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Stock options at a well-funded startup.

• Full coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for individuals on the USA base plan.

• Complete coverage of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and families under the comprehensive Canada plan.

• Retirement plan featuring 4% company matching.

• 8 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• 3-5 weeks of paid time off based on tenure.

• 5 health days.

• 15 holidays.

• Year-end shutdown.

• Performance-based bonuses.

• Remote-first culture.

• Fast-paced and collaborative work environment.