Fundrise - Lead Software Engineer
Requirements
• Like our Lead Software Engineers, you spend much of your day writing code, and you measure success by what you can ship as a team rather than by your own output alone. Your technical choices are pragmatic and always in service of building what's best for users. You hold yourself and your team to a high technical standard, and you think about solutions across multiple problem domains: performance, security, maintainability, architecture, and implementation detail. You can quickly evaluate a new technology, pattern, or language and adopt it when it genuinely serves the problem. You understand how to apply AI effectively to your own daily work and to raising your team's output without treating it as an autopilot. • You form clear opinions and advocate for them, and once a direction is set you commit to it fully. You find real satisfaction in making an established, high-stakes platform a little better every day. You give direct feedback and expect the same in return, and accept responsibility for all outcomes. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate • 3+ years leading and managing engineers: running 1:1s, driving team performance through candid feedback, and owning your team's delivery, quality, and growth • 4+ years building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services like ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB and WAF • A deep understanding of transactional database design and operations • A track record of improving existing systems in operationally complex environments • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure software, including a solid understanding of common threats and principles for writing secure code • Comfortable tackling problems without obvious answers, and can rapidly absorb new languages and frameworks in order to implement the best software solutions • Experience managing high performing engineering teams in • A passion for working backwards from the outcomes the business needs to the engineering decisions that will achieve them
Responsibilities
• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers through effective weekly one-on-ones, deliberate delegation, and growth feedback • Own your team's delivery, breaking down work, coordinating across teams, and shipping against ambitious but achievable timelines • Hold the team to a high quality bar of production code, conducting thorough code reviews and making merge and deployment decisions • Drive design and architecture for Fundrise services and contribute to a long-term team roadmap • Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering stakeholders across the organization to quickly implement complex functionality • Champion application security as a critical part of the work in a regulated financial services environment • Own production monitoring and triage across our services and third-party integrations
Benefits
• Remote-first work environment (must live in the United States) • Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, with Fundrise contributing to both employee and dependent premiums • Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses, dependent care, and parking • 401(k) with 3% contributed by Fundrise, regardless of whether you are actively contributing yourself • Fully covered life insurance and short-term disability • Gympass benefit including mental health resources • Employee Assistance Program • Paid parental leave • $190,000 - $250,000 a year • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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