Staff Software Engineer, Funding

About GoodLeap: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. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018. GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.
About the team:The Funding domain is responsible for ensuring every party involved with GoodLeap financed project is paid accurately and quickly. This team is continually working to improve GoodLeap’s platform by building new and innovative financial technology tools to intelligently track complex ready conditions and report on ledgers to help our customers confidently run their business. The team cares deeply about code quality, alerts, dashboards, pipelines, and other automation to ensure the quality of our products. We are pushing the boundaries of technology atGoodLeap and always have new and interesting projects. There is a good mix of greenfield work and improvement work. On the technical side, the team leverages technologies like C#.NET, MongoDB, Kafka, Typescript, GitHub Actions, SST (Serverless stack), Lambda functions, Datadog, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Kubernetes and Elastic Search to build all these cool systems.
About the role:As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the architecture, design, and development of solutions in GoodLeap’s Funding domain. This role blends hands-on development with strategic decision-making, letting you shape critical systems and influence how we deliver value. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define strategies, solve complex challenges, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on architectural challenges, enjoys mentoring, and is passionate about impactful, scalable solutions. You’ll lead major projects, champion best practices in code quality, reliability, and operations, and help the team navigate trade-offs to achieve ambitious goals. If you’re passionate about software engineering, excited by the challenge of working with modern technologies, and motivated to see your work come to life in production, this is the role for you. Join our team if you’re excited to lead from the front, inspire collaboration, and make a significant impact on a mission-driven company that is changing the world by empowering businesses and driving sustainable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of large-scale, mission-critical software applications, spanning frontend and backend, with a focus on C#.NET and TypeScript/JavaScript services.
• Architect highly scalable, responsive, and secure solutions, ensuring exceptional performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership across teams, guiding decisions on architecture, design patterns, and best practices to align with business objectives.
• Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and engineers to define and deliver impactful features, platform enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Mentor and support engineers at all levels, fostering growth through technical guidance, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot distributed systems to ensure availability and resolve issues proactively.
• Analyze and optimize code, APIs, and system architectures to improve performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Ensure adherence to security best practices and data privacy regulations, delivering compliant and reliable solutions.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools and frameworks, to drive platform innovation and scalability.
• Contribute to and influence key architectural decisions, staying current with industry trends and championing forward-thinking solutions.

You are an ideal candidate for our team if you value

• Collaboration and consensus-building in problem-solving
• Transparency in ambiguous or difficult situations
• “Getting stuf