Entitlement I - Sr. Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and collaboration.
• Conduct 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support engineers in their professional development.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team growth strategies including performance management tasks; annual reviews, merit, feedback conversations.

Hands-On Development

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code—setting the standard for technical excellence within the team.
• Actively contribute to key development projects and unblock engineering challenges as needed.
• Guide architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making to ensure high-quality delivery.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and deliver solutions that meet user and business needs.
• Partner with Product to shape epics, plan sprints, and prioritize the backlog.
• Own team-level sprint planning, delivery timelines, and status reporting.
• Hold the team accountable to sprint commitments, ensuring timely delivery of epics and completion of tickets.
• Identify and manage technical dependencies and risks.

Process & Technical Excellence

• Champion engineering best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Drive continuous improvement in tools, workflows, and team processes.
• Help define and implement the long-term technical strategy for your team.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 1–2+ years in a leadership or team lead capacity.
• Experience with AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis as well as Sendgrid, Postfix and Terraform.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, production-ready systems and applications.
• Comfortable contributing to both frontend and/or backend codebases, depending on the team’s needs.
• Solid understanding of modern development practices, architecture patterns, and engineering tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially across cross-functional teams.
• Experience delivering reliable, high-performance REST APIs.
• Strong interest in database & query performance tuning.
• Experience and good understanding of scrum/agile development methodologies.
• Experienced with code reviews, service ownership, fully automated testing, microservices, and rapid/continuous releases.

Preferred Skills:

• Technical experience with E-mail processing and tracking in large systems.
• Experience with serverless, queuing, streaming.
• Comfortable with being on-call for support and interacting directly with clients if needed.
• Worked directly in the finance industry and/or at a SaaS startup.