Senior Software Engineer – BaaS
About the role
Our client, a leading fintech and financial services company, is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer - BaaS in West Los Angeles, CA.
Pay Rate Range: $60 to $67/hr on w2 (Without benefits), depending on experience
Responsibilities:
Senior Software Engineer - BaaS
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.
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.
Requirements: 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.
PrideGlobal and it's affiliates 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, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are 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
PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are 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.
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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
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
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications
- Familiarity with event-driven and microservice based architecture patterns
- Hands-on experience with leveraging and implementing observability dashboards and platforms
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- Employee assistance program
- Legal support
- Pet insurance
- Employee discounts with preferred vendors
Skills mentioned
About Russell Tobin
Bring Top Talent With Your Company With Russell Tobin Headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, India, and Singapore, Russell Tobin—a division of Pride Global—offers total staffing and recruitment solutions across a wide range of industries. Our team of highly skilled recruiters, sourcers, and subject-matter experts understand exactly how to find world-class candidates that will fit your company’s precise needs. Whether you need skilled professionals ready to deliver results in complex sectors such as banking or technology, or you’re looking to build out your own staffing efforts with a recruiter-for-recruiters (R4R) model, Russell Tobin can make the connections. Our Bespoke Approach to Connecting Talent With Companies When an organization comes on board as a client, Russell Tobin takes the time to understand the company from the inside out. We work directly with you and your leadership team to create an end-to-end solution capable of handling the full recruitment lifecycle, tailored to your company’s needs and culture. After gathering the critical data we need to seek exactly the right candidates for your hiring strategy, our recruiters take over, using their deep understanding of your industry to build out talent pools and discover game-changing new hires. A Proud Member of a Decidedly Diverse Network of Companies As part of Pride Global, Russell Tobin serves as one of industry’s only minority-owned payroll and staffing organizations, giving you the opportunity to satisfy Tier 1 diversity spending requirements. We’ve also taken this commitment much further through our Decidedly Diverse initiative, which seeks to create greater diversity, equity, and inclusion across our workforce and workplace, as well as the wider world in which we live. Learn more at https://decidedlydiverse.com.