Job Description
GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team
- Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, building a high-performance, accountable engineering culture
- Own hiring, calibration, and career development for a team operating in an expanding domain
- Define and communicate a multi-quarter engineering roadmap tied to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes
- Own the architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting decisioning, submission and approval workflows, funding, and payments processing
- Guide technical decisions across a distributed, event-driven services ecosystem supporting high-volume, time-sensitive financial transactions
- Set and enforce engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability appropriate to a regulated lending and payments environment
- Champion modern engineering practices — including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows — to raise team velocity and quality
- Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align engineering delivery with contractor-facing financing and payments outcomes
- Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, balancing speed, risk, and system stability
- Define and track KPIs across financing/payments transaction volume, submission-to-close conversion, and fraud/delinquency risk metrics
- Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation across the Financing & Payments service estate
- Manage technical debt and platform scalability as transaction volume and product surface area grow
- Establish the operating rigor — on-call, incident response, SLAs — required for systems that gate real money movement
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles managing managers and cross-functional teams
- Proven track record leading engineering for complex, regulated fintech, lending, or payments platforms
- Deep experience with distributed, event-driven microservices architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems
- Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems, loan origination or servicing pipelines, or payments processing infrastructure
- Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
- Track record of scaling an engineering organization through growth — hiring, structuring teams, and expanding scope
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable operating across Product, Risk, and Compliance
- Experience in point-of-sale financing, home improvement/solar lending, or contractor-facing fintech
- Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering throughput
- Background scaling a platform team from a single product line into a broader organization — mirroring this role's growth path
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