Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. The Lead Software Engineer II plays a crucial role in designing and delivering reliable, high-quality software while collaborating with senior engineers and architects to implement scalable and maintainable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally
• Works closely with senior leaders to shape solutions
• Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns
• Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience
• Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS
• Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency—under guidance of senior engineers
• Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts
• Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability
• Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, and DevOps to deliver well-aligned solutions
• Contribute to a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team

Skills

• 4 - 6 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development experience with Java and Python
• Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices
• Experience with modern databases (relational and NoSQL) such as DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams
• Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership
• Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred)

Company Overview

• Best Egg is a consumer financial technology platform that aims to help people feel more confident about their everyday finances through a suite of products and resources. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.marlettefunding.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Best Egg has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

Apply To This Job