Lead Software Engineer
$134,500 – $174,500
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Posted 49 days ago
SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$134,500 – $174,500
About the role
- The team operates within Wealth Management Technology, supporting the CashApp Money Movement platform used by Franklin Templeton's High Net Worth business.
- CashApp is a mission-critical platform responsible for: Processing client cash transactions (ACH, Wires, Check)
- Generating outbound transaction files and parsing inbound files (e.g., NACHA, wire files, positive pay)
- Integrating with downstream systems such as the accounting platform, Cash Agents, Axway, and Azure storage
- Supporting operational workflows and regulatory validations
- The platform has high transaction sensitivity, requiring: Strict compliance with AML/KYC, OFAC, and audit controls
- High availability and accuracy due to client impact and settlement deadlines
- The team operates in an Agile delivery model with: Regular sprint-based releases and governance cycles
- Strong coordination between Business, Dev, QA, Product, and Operations teams
- Team structure and culture: Cross-functional teams including engineering, QA, product, and support
- Mix of onshore, offshore, and vendor resources
- Focus on ownership, resilience, and continuous improvement
- Strong emphasis on AI First, production stability, product monitoring, release discipline, and automation coverage
- The Lead Software Engineer will be a senior-level software developer who can operate independently for the CashApp platform and its downstream components, ensuring reliable, scalable, and compliant money movement capabilities.
- The Lead Software Engineer will: Deliver end-to-end money movement features
- Own critical components across transaction processing, integrations, and workflow orchestration
- Improve system reliability, performance, monitoring, and automation coverage
- Conduct code peer reviews and support branching strategy and team collaboration
- Success in this role enables: Accurate and timely execution of client transactions
- Avoidance of business impacts such as missed cut-offs and delayed settlements
- Faster delivery of new digital payment capabilities using agent-based code generation
- Improved operational efficiency and reduced manual intervention
- How you will add value
- Design, develop, and maintain CashApp transaction processing components
- Review designs and solutions with the Architecture team
- Support and enhance payment workflows (ACH, Wires, Check)
- Perform root cause analysis and resolution for production incidents and failures
- Ensure high system performance, reliability, and observability
- Modernize CashApp components to a cloud-native microservices architecture
- Improve automation coverage for regression, API, and downstream validations
- Enhance integrations with the accounting platform, Cash Agent platform, AML Monitoring Systems, Compliance Recon and Monitoring Systems, Azure-based cloud hosting environments, and external payment systems
- CollaborationPartner with: Architecture team for review
- Product Owners for feature prioritization and roadmap deliveryQA teams to improve automation coverage and release quality
- Operations teams to ensure smooth production releases and incident response
- Participate in: Daily stand-ups
- Sprint planning and retrospectives
- Governance and release signoffs (e.g., CashApp TQA cycles)
- Work closely with stakeholders across: Business (Cash Settlements, Front Office)
- Compliance and risk teams
- Vendor and CashAgent partnersAI Fluency – AI-First Mindset
- Experience in: Functional integration between applications and existing agents
- Generating high-quality code by using prompts efficiently
- Debugging complex transaction flows
- Writing automation scripts and test cases
- Validating AI-generated outputs before applying them to critical systems
- Identifying opportunities to use AIWhat will help you be successful in this role
- Technical Environment
- Core Stack: Backend: Java / Spring Boot / MicroservicesUI: Angular / React
- Database: SQL Server / Snowflake / non-SQLMessaging: Kafka / Service BusCloud Technologies: Azure / AWSIntegration: REST APIs, file-based integrations (NACHA, wire files)
- Operating Environment: Azure cloud and hybrid legacy systems
- Kubernetes-based deployments
- Workflow: Agile delivery (Scrum)
- GitLab / Bamboo CI/CD pipelines and release management cycles
- Jira and Service
- Now for change and incident tracking
- Quality & Reliability: Regression automation
- End-to-end validation of transaction flows
- Monitoring of batch jobs and integrations
- Incident management tied to business-critical SLAsRequired SkillsStrong experience in: Java / microservices architectureAPI integrations and distributed systems
- Enterprise transaction processing systems
- Experience with: Money movement platforms (ACH, wires, payments)
- High-volume, high-reliability systems
- Understanding of: File-based processing (NACHA, wire instructions)
- Regulatory controls (AML/KYC, OFAC)ISO 20022 awareness 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading critical platform components or modules
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Soft SkillsStrong ownership and problem-solving mindset
- Ability to handle high-pressure, production-critical scenarios
- Effective communication with Engineering, Architecture, Product, and Business teams
- Experience working in Agile, distributed team environments
- Experience with: Payment orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with: Observability and distributed tracing tools
- Performance tuning of transaction systems
- Exposure to: Digital onboarding and client servicing platforms
- FinTech integrations
- Work Schedule & Location
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