Lead Software Engineer

About Green Dot Corporation About Green Dot Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) is a financial technology platform and registered bank holding company that builds banking and payment solutions to create value, retain and reward customers, and accelerate growth for businesses of all sizes. ​For more than two decades, Green Dot has delivered financial tools and services that address the most pressing financial needs of consumers and businesses, and that transform the way people and businesses manage and move money. Green Dot delivers a broad spectrum of financial products to consumers and businesses through its portfolio of brands, including: GO2bank, a leading digital and mobile bank account offering simple, secure and useful banking for Americans living paycheck to paycheck; the Green Dot Network (“GDN”) of more than 95,000 retail distribution and cash access locations nationwide; Arc by Green Dot, the single-source embedded finance platform combining all of Green Dot’s secure banking and money processing capabilities to power businesses at all stages of growth; rapid! wage and disbursements solutions, providing pay card and earned wage access services to more than 7,000 businesses and their employees; and Santa Barbara Tax Products Group (“SBTPG”), the company’s tax division, which processes more than 14 million tax refunds annually. Founded in 1999, Green Dot has managed more than 80 million accounts to date both directly and through its partners. Green Dot Bank4 is a subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation and member of the FDIC. For more information about Green Dot’s products and services, please visit www.greendot.com. +++ The Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland will accept all questions or complaints from Maryland residents regarding Green Dot Corporation, NMLS ID #914924 at 1100 North Eutaw Street, Suite 611; Baltimore, MD 21201, phone 888-784-0136. NMLS Consumer Access: https://nmlsconsumeraccess.org/

Green Dot Corporation

Giving all people the power to bank seamlessly, affordably and with confidence.

Digital BankingFintechBanking as a Serviceand Embedded Finance

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careers.greendot.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Financial Services

Provo, Utah

1999

Public Company

58k LinkedIn followers

Raised $98M

• Lead Software Engineer: Rearchitect Green Dot Corporation’s Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform for the future using cloud native techniques. Build the next generation banking and payments platform. Contribute towards moving the team forward in continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration, and test-driven development practices. Design highly scalable distributed solutions to handle large amounts of data. Work on complex integration projects by working out API contracts, identifying gaps, and working out optimal solutions. Document and demonstrate solutions by developing flowcharts, sequence diagrams and business process flow diagrams. Organize and run working sessions by setting up agendas, driving discussions towards resolutions, and delegating actions to participants. Own a component or capability during a project delivery stage and be on point for fulfilling the responsibility. Ensure software is designed and built with quality, maintainability, scalability, availability, extensibility, security, portability, and testability. Partner with product teams to shape the future state of products. Actively identify technical debt and work with internal stakeholders to address debt on an ongoing basis. Understand evolving industry trends and identify new technologies and patterns which should be adopted, and old technologies which should be deprecated. Participate in code reviews, coach team members, and learn from receiving feedback.
• Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
• Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to the development of monitoring and alerting systems.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
• Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.
• Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
• Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality
• Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change – favor configurability over customization.

Required

• This position is open only to candidates who currently reside in one of the following approved locations
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation.
• A strong portfolio showing secure, standards-compliant code across multiple platforms, including the Microsoft stack and open-source technologies.
• Languages and frameworks: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
• Cloud: Designing, developing, and hosting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS. This includes Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, plus container technologies and caching frameworks.
• APIs and web services: RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications. Also, SOAP and XML/JSON business object representations.
• Architecture: Designing and building microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs), and software design patterns and anti-patterns. Writing code for scalable, reliable systems.
• DevOps and delivery: Git and GitHub, CI/CD processes, build tools (TeamCity), pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
• Observability: Implementing and using observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
• Methodology: Agile development, including Scrum and Extreme Programming.
• Security and compliance: Security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
• Work environment
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with iterative project turnarounds on mission- and revenue-critical, customer-facing applications.

Preferred

• Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.
• Familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management.
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications.
• Ability to meet the location requirement outlined above**