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Eliassen Group

Lead Software Engineer

los angeles, CA

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About this opportunity

Eliassen Group lists this Lead Software Engineer opportunity in los angeles, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Hybrid Fully Remote until West LA office opens - then 3x a week onsite in Los Angeles, CA

Our client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Software Engineer to join their 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.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $70.00/hr. w2

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Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of 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.

Drive 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.

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

Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.

Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.

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

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

Experience Requirements

7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.

Strong portfolio demonstrating secure and standards-compliant code across multiple platforms.

Fluency with several of the following: C#, .NET, SQL, Azure native services (APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault), containers, and caching frameworks.

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

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

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

Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment delivering iterative project turnarounds for mission and revenue critical, customer-facing applications.

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

Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship and to meet the stated location requirement.

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Worksite address

los angeles, CA, 90079, US

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