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Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead), Marketplace Middleware Engineering

Leads design, implementation, and maintenance of marketplace middleware using C#/.NET, event-driven systems like Kafka, and CQRS patterns. Mentors engineers, ensures high code quality, and drives scalable fintech solutions with 8+ years experience.

209k – 240k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain web applications with marketplace middleware-specific business logic
  • Communicate with stakeholders. Work with Architects, Tech Leads, Product, and Design members to arrive at solutions that produce customer and business value.
  • Mentor junior engineers. Guide members of the development team on internal and external frameworks, software development best practices, and new technologies.
  • Develop concise, articulate, and detailed technical documentation
  • Leverage Agile and Lean practices
  • Lead a workstream, partner with product on requirements, lead technical requirements, and plan actionable tasks for the team
  • Design, build, and maintain automated tests (unit and at times integration), ensuring high code quality
  • Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience as a technical lead for a product engineering team
  • Expertise building APIs with C# and .NET
  • Experience developing event-driven systems leveraging Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
  • Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, or similar approaches
  • Experience with SQL / Relational Databases
  • Experience interpreting and contributing to system design
  • Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery
  • Fintech or Financial services industry experience with working knowledge of financial regulators and their concerns

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with KYC (Know Your Customer) workflows
  • Experience with multiple server-side programming languages
  • Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) or Domain Driven Development
  • Experience with Marten for Event Store DB
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and managing application deployments
  • Experience with scaling systems to millions of users
  • Working knowledge of the private market

Compensation

For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $209,000-$240,000 annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Skills

C#.NetKafkaRabbitMQCqrsEvent SourcingSQLRelational DatabasesMartenCI/CD

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