Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead (Remote-Eligible)

About the role

The successful candidate will lead the technical agenda for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization, focusing on rapid and intelligent applicant feature delivery. They will drive the transformation of custom, segment-specific initiatives into reusable enterprise capabilities, simplifying and modernizing backend architectures, and enabling agile feature delivery.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Design, build, and maintain a resilient, high-performance ecosystem that supports aggressive portfolio growth while upholding strict standards of operational excellence
• Maximize the efficiency, intelligence, and capability of core credit decisioning systems
• Simplify and modernize backend architectures to significantly compress the feature delivery lifecycle
• Engineer advanced, flexible frontend capabilities that allow the business to rapidly deploy new applicant user flows, custom segment experiences, and real-time product offers
• Act as the technical catalyst that transforms raw business intents into scalable software solutions, ensuring engineering teams can pivot and deploy features with maximum agility
• Drive Technical Excellence: Foster a culture of continuous modernization, guiding cross-functional teams to build modular, reusable codebases that eliminate technical silos across the Acquisitions domain

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
• 4+ years of experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high availability, high throughput environments
• Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy
• 7+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 7+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies