Role Overview
We're seeking a Lead Software Engineer to manage a team within our API Engineering group. This team owns the services at the core of Fundrise’s investor application: the APIs that drive authentication, investing, account management, and more.
About Fundrise
Fundrise is a financial technology company on a mission to build a better financial system for the individual. With more than 2 million users and over $3 billion in assets under management, we are the largest direct-to-investor alternative asset platform in the United States, making institutional-quality real estate, private credit, and venture cap
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers through effective weekly one-on-ones, deliberate delegation, and growth feedback
- Own your team's delivery, breaking down work, coordinating across teams, and shipping against ambitious but achievable timelines
- Hold the team to a high quality bar of production code, conducting thorough code reviews and making merge and deployment decisions
- Drive design and architecture for Fundrise services and contribute to a long-term team roadmap
- Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering stakeholders across the organization to quickly implement complex functionality
Requirements & Eligibility
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate
- 3+ years leading and managing engineers: running 1:1s, driving team performance through candid feedback, and owning your team's delivery, quality, and growth
- 4+ years building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services like ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB and WAF
- A deep understanding of transactional database design and operations
Required Skills & Tech
JavaSpringSpring BootHibernateAWS