LendingPad is a fast-growing Loan Origination System (LOS) built for the modern mortgage institution. The suite of products includes a point of sale (POS), document solution, API, and other mortgage-origination related products. Our goal is to provide a scalable, efficient, and compliant software solution to meet the needs of today’s demands.

Job Description:

Join a fast-growing fintech provider in lending as a Lead Software Engineer - working closely with requirement analysts and operations teams to develop, test, and support a mortgage lending application. You will be required to complete assigned tasks in a fast-paced, agile environment. This is a full-time position.

Requirements:

13+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise web applications with a strong understanding of OOP and SOLID principles.
Deep knowledge of C#, .Net, LINQ, experience in NoSQL and SQL databases technologies, experience in JavaScript/AngularJS/Angular, HTML5, CSS3, and development/source control tools such as Visual Studio, Git, and Jira.
Demonstrated understanding of standard security practices and tools.
Ability to understand the architecture thought process
Willingness to learn and work hard
Be ready to re-do the code due to requirements or comments of a core reviewer
Ability to accept other’s point of view even if it is different from his own
Be focused and attentive to details
Constantly analyze and remember the solutions that were applied to previous issues
Interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written), presentation skills, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Strong work ethics, a passion for excellence and a desire to continuously learning/improving your skills are a must.

**Candidate will be given a sample task to complete to demonstrate the skills and knowledge. **

Duties:

This is a hands-on engineering role. Roughly 70% of your time is spent building; the remaining 30% is spent leading a team of up to two developers and working alongside QA.

ENGINEERING

· Design and build features across the LendingPad platform, consistent with existing architecture and established patterns.

· Own the technical breakdown for the team's work: implementation approach and rejected alternatives, scope boundaries and exclusions, data and schema changes, integration impact, affected portals and company types, risks and unknowns, and the agreed test approach.

· Produce the effort estimate the task is scheduled against, together with the developer who will do the work, and reconcile with Product when a revised estimate moves more than 30%.

· Act as first code reviewer on the team's work, with a first response inside one business day.

· Sign off implementation plans where CTO sign-off is not required, accepting accountability for the quality of the plan.

· Author infrastructure and technical debt work against the department's protected capacity, with a written problem statement and a testable definition of done.

LEADING THE TEAM

· Run daily oversight of the team — roughly fifteen minutes on the board, then act on what it shows.

· Respond to defined triggers rather than waiting for a status report: no progress logged for two days, a blocked flag within four working hours, spent time at 75% of estimate with progress under 50%, elapsed time past 1.5x estimate, and a third return from code review or QA.

· Conduct a mid-point review on any task estimated at more than three days — a check that the implementation is going where the breakdown said it would.

· Verify readiness before a task starts and return incomplete work with the specific missing item named.

· Pull the next piece of work from the ranked queue as developers become free, and intervene where a developer is holding three or more returned items.

· Work with each developer on estimate accuracy, review responsiveness, and how early problems get surfaced. With a team this size, this is a continuous conversation rather than a review cycle.

WORKING WITH PRODUCT

· Talk directly with Product Managers during definition and estimation — understand the problem before proposing the solution, and surface what is observable but unspecified.

· Hold the line between requirement and implementation: Product decides what the system does, Engineering decides how it is built, and changes to anything a partner already depends on are decided jointly.

· Attend the twice-weekly review and bring due-date risk, overruns, and blocked work — each with the decision needed, not only the problem.

· Escalate to the CTO where scope, estimate, or priority does not converge.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

· Own hotfix triage: on a Severity 1, triage and assign within thirty minutes, including deciding who stops what they are doing; Severity 2 within the working day.

· Select the developers and approvers on a hotfix and move it straight into development.

· Create the follow-up task immediately where a hotfix only patches the problem, while the cause is still fresh.

· Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using C#, .Net ASP.NET Web API, and related frameworks.

· Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following coding standards and best practices.

· Perform system analysis, requirements gathering, and technical design in collaboration with business analysts and stakeholders.

· Develop RESTful APIs, web services, and backend components to support business applications.

· Implement changes in the database structure, including writing queries, patches, and optimizing performance.

· Do code reviews, unit testing, and debugging to ensure software quality.

· Mentor other developers, provide technical guidance, and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

· Ensure applications follow security, scalability, and performance best practices.

· Prepare and maintain technical documentation, system specifications.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (MBA a plus)

Schedule:

Onsite at our McLean office Monday – Thursday, Remote on Fridays.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

LendingPad is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you require assistance or accommodation during the application process, please contact HR at Lauren.Shaw@lendingpad.com.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Health savings account
Paid time off
Referral program
Retirement plan
Vision insurance

Education:

Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

OOP: 10 years (Required)
Leadership: 1 year (Preferred)
C#: 10 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

McLean, VA 22102 (Required)

Work Location: In person

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