Senior Software Engineer BaaS Team

Job Description

Senior/Lead Software Engineer - FinTech Background

Remote, but need local to Los Angeles, CA

contract will convert full time for right person later this year

$74 per hour

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our BaaS team, supporting partner onboarding and BaaS platform enhancement initiatives. This role will be instrumental in building and supporting scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that enable embedded financial services across our partner ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.

Support engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.

Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to the development of monitoring and alerting systems.

Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

Draft architectural and design documentation to assist design options analysis and decision making.

Evaluate emerging technologies from applicability to feasibility to adoption paths.

Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality

Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change favor configurability over customization.

Skills/Experience:

Technical Qualifications

5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 1 year in a technical leadership role.

Strong portfolio of work showing experience developing secure and standards-compliant code across multiple platforms.

Fluent in several of the following languages/platforms/libraries: C#, .NET, SQL, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and Key Vault), container technologies, and caching frameworks.

Solid understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications.

Familiarity with event-driven (Service Bus, Event Hubs) and microservice based architecture patterns.

Hands-on experience with leveraging and implementing observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).

Ability to handle a fast-paced environment for iterative project turnarounds on mission & revenue critical, customer-facing applications

Deep knowledge in Git, DevOps, Agile Scrum, and security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.

Familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management.

Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.