FVP, Head of Commercial Platform Development

Axos Bank

Target Range:

$175,000.00 /Yr. - $200,000.00 /Yr.

Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 15%

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 15%

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

This position will report onsite to our HQ in San Diego, CA. Remote is not available.

Axos Bank is building its Commercial Banking platform from the ground up and this role owns the development. The Head of Commercial Platform Development (First Vice President) will be the founding technical leader for a net-new platform designed to serve Axos' commercial clients across treasury, cash management, fund banking, and complex commercial workflows. There is no legacy system to inherit. You are starting with a blank slate and the mandate to build it right.

You will report to the Head of Software Engineering and serve as the direct technology counterpart to the Head of Commercial Digital Product. Together, you will co-own the Commercial platform roadmap , translating product strategy into architecture decisions, engineering plans, and scalable delivery execution. This is a builder role first: you will be close to the code, the design, and the team in the early phases, with a clear trajectory to lead a multi-team organization of 50–100+ engineers as the platform matures.

The platform will be built on OutSystems as its low-code/high-productivity foundation, complemented by a purpose-built architecture for zero-latency operations, high-throughput event processing, and enterprise-grade reliability. If you have strong opinions about how to build financial platforms that perform at scale and the experience to back them up, this is the role!

Responsibilities:

Platform Architecture & Build

• Design and own the end-to-end architecture of the Axos Commercial Banking ecosystem, including the Commercial Portal, industry specific solutions, API gateway layer, and integration fabric connecting to the online banking platform, core banking, and third-party fintech vendors
• Establish foundational platform patterns: OutSystems application architecture, Redis-based caching and session management, message queuing topology, and API design standards
• Architect for zero-latency: define real-time data flow patterns, in-memory processing strategies, and latency SLAs for transactional and treasury workflows
• Design the event-driven backbone selecting and configuring queuing technologies (e.g., Kafka, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ) to support high-throughput commercial workflows including payments, approvals, and capital call processing
• Establish integration patterns with online banking platform for SSO punch-out, transaction execution, and data synchronization ensuring clean separation between portal-owned surfaces and vendor-managed workflows

AI-Led Development & Engineering Productivity

• Establish an AI-led development approach from day one standardizing how engineers use copilots/LLM tooling for design exploration, code generation, test creation, documentation, and refactoring
• Implement guardrails for safe, compliant AI usage in a regulated environment: data handling rules, prompt hygiene, secrets management, and IP/open-source considerations
• Build AI into the engineering system: AI-assisted code review and static analysis, automated test generation, release note drafting, and incident/RCAs summarization to increase throughput without lowering quality
• Define measurable productivity and quality outcomes (e.g., cycle time, defect escape rate, change failure rate) and iterate on workflows, templates, and training to drive sustained adoption

Engineering Execution & Delivery

• Lead a founding engineering team through platform stand-up: environment configuration, CI/CD pipeline construction, coding standards, and first production deployments
• Own full-lifecycle delivery across development, QA, and release establishing quality gates, automated testing frameworks, and deployment processes from day one
• Define and implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) strategy: tooling selection, instrumentation standards, alerting thresholds, and incident response runbooks
• Establish SRE practices appropriate to a regulated financial platform: SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, and post-incident review processes
• Drive sprint cadence and delivery rhythm in close partnership with the H