Lead Software Engineer

Fundrise is a financial technology company focused on democratizing private investment through its direct-to-investor platform. The Lead Software Engineer position involves managing a team within the API Engineering group responsible for core investor application services. The role includes setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving high-quality software delivery, and ensuring application security in a regulated financial environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers through effective weekly one-on-ones, deliberate delegation, and growth feedback
• Own your team's delivery, breaking down work, coordinating across teams, and shipping against ambitious but achievable timelines
• Hold the team to a high quality bar of production code, conducting thorough code reviews and making merge and deployment decisions
• Drive design and architecture for Fundrise services and contribute to a long-term team roadmap
• Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering stakeholders across the organization to quickly implement complex functionality
• Champion application security as a critical part of the work in a regulated financial services environment
• Own production monitoring and triage across our services and third-party integrations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• 3+ years leading and managing engineers: running 1:1s, driving team performance through candid feedback, and owning your team's delivery, quality, and growth
• 4+ years building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services like ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB and WAF
• A deep understanding of transactional database design and operations
• A track record of improving existing systems in operationally complex environments
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure software, including a solid understanding of common threats and principles for writing secure code
• Comfortable tackling problems without obvious answers, and can rapidly absorb new languages and frameworks in order to implement the best software solutions
• Experience managing high performing engineering teams
• A passion for working backwards from the outcomes the business needs to the engineering decisions that will achieve them