Best Egg

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Best Egg

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: WilmingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $155,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
  • Own end-to-end implementation, deployment, and operational support for complex systems.
  • Lead design discussions, create architecture diagrams, and drive sound technical decision-making.
  • Conduct deep code reviews focused on correctness, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of critical systems.
  • Translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and challenge assumptions where needed.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years of professional engineering experience (10+ for deeply technical stacks)
  • Advanced experience with distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, or complex front-end platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Python, .NET, Go, or JavaScript frameworks.
  • Solid understanding of SQL/NoSQL models, data design, performance tuning, and caching.
  • Experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, or RDS.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and using Docker/ECS/EKS (preferred).
Benefits
  • Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
  • Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
  • Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
  • Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  • Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
  • Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPython.NETGoJavaScriptSQLNoSQLperformance tuningcachingdistributed systems
Soft Skills
leadershiptechnical decision-makingcode reviewproblem-solvingcommunication