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Best Egg —Wilmington, DE
- $100,000 - $135,000 a year
- Full-time
- System design
- Java
- SQL
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays

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Lead Software Engineer II – Java & Python

Best Egg -
Wilmington, DE

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Job Details

Full-time
$100,000 - $135,000 a year

Benefits

Paid parental leave
Paid holidays
Disability insurance
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Flexible spending account
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Retirement plan
Pet insurance

Qualifications

Containerization systems
Data model design
Software engineering
Content creation for technical audiences
Cloud Logging
Continuous Delivery (CD) implementation
Data modeling projects
Improving system uptime or availability
IT system monitoring
Amazon ECS
System design
Engineering process optimization
Scalable systems
Reporting and dashboarding tools
Schema design
Java
SQL
Event-driven architecture
Collaboration with product development teams
Cloud security best practices implementation
Quality issues
Query execution time improvement
Mentoring
Software documentation
Cloud Native Design
Scalability
Production monitoring
Software testing
Developing and maintaining backend systems
Agile software development

Full Job Description

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence —enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.

We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

Role Overview

The Lead Software Engineer II plays an important role in building and enhancing engineering solutions across the organization. This role focuses on designing and delivering reliable, high-quality software while contributing to technical discussions, improving engineering practices, and supporting team execution. You will work closely with senior engineers and architects to implement scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.

What You Will Do

Technical Delivery & Engineering Excellence

Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software iteratively and incrementally.
Works closely with senior leaders to shape solutions.
Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and cloud-native patterns.
Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
Cloud Engineering & Operational Support
Build and enhance distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native solutions in AWS.
Apply cloud best practices—security, cost awareness, performance, and operational efficiency—under guidance of senior engineers.
Contribute to observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
Assist in performance tuning, resiliency improvements, and troubleshooting production issues to ensure system stability.
Team Collaboration & Mentorship
Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, InfoSec, and DevOps to deliver well-aligned solutions.
Contribute to a culture of learning, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 90 days:

Deliver high-quality, production-ready code and contribute meaningfully to team goals.
Build strong working relationships within the engineering and product teams.

In 6–12 months:

Co ownership of core components or services.
Co Lead development of one or more important services with increasing autonomy.
Help improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

What You Bring

4 - 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong backend development experience with Java and Python.
Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization.
Working knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, services, and best practices.
Experience with modern databases (relational and NoSQL) such as DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and container orchestration systems (ECS/EKS preferred).
Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.
Ability to produce clear technical documentation and participate in design discussions.
Collaboration & Leadership
Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
Comfort working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and shared ownership.
Ability to bring clarity to complex situations and drive work forward with teammates.

Who You Are

You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys building reliable systems and helping others grow. You are collaborative, curious, and proactive in improving both the product and the engineering process. You balance solid technical judgment with the willingness to dive into details. You’re motivated by delivering value, enhancing system quality, and contributing steadily to a strong engineering culture.

$100,000 - $135,000 a year

Employee Benefits

Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):

Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program

Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company

holidays

Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options

Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts

Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs

Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

In compliance with the CCPA, Best Egg is fully committed to handling the personal information and data of employees and job applications responsibly with respect and due care.

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