clasp-group - Engineering Director, Lending (Clasp Finance)
Requirements
• Experience in Engineering Leadership: Experience managing engineers in a fintech, lending, or regulated domain environment. This role is not for first-time managers as it will require you to hit the ground running, juggling stakeholder management, technical execution, and people management. • Technical Depth: 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with recent and meaningful depth in Python, JavaScript and/or TypeScript. Experience with Next.js and modern state management patterns. You can credibly review code, diagnose architectural problems, and make technology choices your team will trust. • Cloud & Architecture Experience: Experience working with cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Our platform leverages Firebase and Firestore, so experience with NoSQL document modeling is strongly preferred. Familiarity with GCP is a plus, though equivalent experience in AWS or Azure environments is also valued. • Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to explain complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership and external school customers. • Strategic Thinking: Ability to leverage both qualitative and quantitative data to inform all decisions, and to make confident calls under uncertainty. • What We Give In Return • Competitive cash and equity compensation • Health benefits (health, dental, & vision)
Responsibilities
• Own the Technical Roadmap: Define and drive the engineering strategy for Clasp Finance in close partnership with the GM and Product Manager, and cross-functional stakeholders across lending operations, compliance, and sales. Translate business priorities into a sequenced technical plan – balancing new feature delivery against platform investment and regulatory requirements. • Lead and Grow the Team: Manage a small engineering team, setting clear goals, running effective 1:1s, and creating an environment where engineers do their best work. Partner with the Engineering Leadership on development, leveling, and team structure as Clasp Finance scales. Be a hands-on contributor where it matters — code reviews, architecture decisions, and unblocking the team on hard problems. • Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with compliance and legal to ensure the platform holds up under regulatory scrutiny. Understand our internal customer needs to streamline operations. • Think in Multipliers: You'll be working with a lean team against a big surface area. That means constantly asking where AI, automation, contracted staffing and tooling can create leverage and building the systems that make each engineer on your team significantly more productive than they'd be anywhere else. • Scale the Platform: Collaborate with Clasp Talent engineering leadership to detangle co-mingled codebases across business lines, align on shared services, and maintain a coherent overall technical architecture. Make principled trade-offs between build vs. buy, and communicate cost implications clearly to leadership. Ensure the loan origination system, credit model tooling, and school-facing administrative platform are reliable, scalable, and auditable.
Benefits
• 401k matching • Flexible PTO policy • Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team • The salary range for this position is competitive and will be commensurate with the candidate's experience, qualifications, and industry knowledge, ranging between $180,000 to $210,000 annually. In addition to the base salary, we offer an attractive equity component as part of our compensation package, providing an opportunity for eligible employees to share in the success and growth of our company. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent. • If you are a driven engineering leader with deep fintech expertise and a passion for building systems that meaningfully serve the people who rely on them, we want to hear from you. Join us in reshaping how schools support their students and making a lasting impact on the future of higher education financing. Apply now to be part of our growing team!
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