Director, Software Engineering (932466)

Address: 322 Rhett Street, Greenville, South Carolina, United States - 29601   

 

Purpose Financial, Inc. is an innovative consumer financial services company that offers a diverse suite of credit products, promoting financial inclusion and meeting consumers wherever they are. Through its brands, the company is committed to helping customers achieve their version of financial stability in the moment and in the future.  Since 1997, Purpose Financial has been a pioneer in the consumer credit and financial services market offering money solutions in over 800 storefronts locations and online lending.  Providing services in over 23 states, Purpose Financial employs over 2,500 team members.

At Purpose Financial we are always on the lookout for motivated individuals who share in our values of mutual respect to join our team of outstanding professionals.

We offer:

• Competitive Wages
• Health/Life Benefits
• Health Savings Account plus Employer Seed
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• 3 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• 11 Company Paid Holiday's
• Paid Time Off including Volunteer Time
• Vacation Carryover
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work-Life Balance
• Business Casual Environment
• Rewards & Recognition Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Office in downtown Greenville that offers free parking, onsite gym, free snacks/drinks (for those working onsite or hybrid)

To learn more about Purpose Financial visit Purpose Financial Website.

 

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Director of Software Engineering that possesses a growth mindset, very strong problem-solving skills, and shift-left thinking, to lead a talented team of software engineers. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the development of high-quality software solutions, hands-on technical coaching, mentoring, leading, and driving technical excellence, improving development team flows and tools, and ensuring the successful delivery of software projects on time and on budget. You will be a cultural leader embodying Purpose Financials’ core values.

 

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in services and platform engineering. Including Microservices, Java, Containers, API development, Quality, Observability, Error Handling, CI/CD, developing for scale in a distributed cloud environment, AWS (including serverless, API services, Aurora and Dynamo), Infrastructure as Code, Mock API testing, virtualization of lower environments, observability and monitoring dashboards, and have a proven track record of coaching and mentoring teams. You should be an engaged and hands-on leader. You should have a desire to raise the bar of excellence through hands-on coaching and co-creation with staff, breaking down silos, and possessing strong architectural experience. Experience with REACT or Vue, JAMStack, and instrumentation is highly desirable. Experience with implementing telemetry and SRE function is highly desirable. Experience with Prompt Engineering and GenAI is desirable.

Job Responsibility

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship.
• Must be highly engaged, available, hands-on (in the code), detail oriented, an active leader and a great listener.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions at a fast pace.
• Work collaboratively (including with the Vice President of Engineering, Tech Leads, and Colleagues) to define and evolve plans to achieve software engineering excellence.
• Define and manage budget of software development teams and tools.
• Develop roadmaps and plans to incrementally build to end state visions with pragmatic and achievable plans while meeting immediate project deli