At Sunbit, we're building financial technology that puts people first. By combining intelligent decisioning with a personalized, transparent approach, we help consumers access the payment options that are right for them while empowering merchants to build stronger customer relationships.
Engineering is at the heart of how we make that happen. We build scalable distributed systems, cloud-native services, intelligent data platforms, and AI-powered solutions that enable real-time financial decisions at scale. By leveraging modern engineering practices and integrating AI into both our products and development workflows, we solve complex technical challenges, accelerate innovation, and continuously improve the way we build software. Every service, model, and architectural decision we make directly impacts our products, our customers, and the future of financial technology.
About the Role
Sunbit is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to direct the technical vision across our Infrastructure Group (DevOps, Data Infrastructure, and Backend Platform).This person is deeply experienced in the DevOps and Data Infrastructure worlds, with solid working knowledge of the backend (Java) stack - enough to challenge service architecture and align infrastructure decisions with how services are actually built and run.This is a cross-cutting, technical role. The Technical Lead drives architecture, eliminates silos between teams, standardizes foundational engineering practices, and mentors senior engineers across the group
Team tasks you will take part in
- Act as the infrastructure technical lead within the R&D organization, directly influencing Sunbit’s broader technology roadmap.
- Drive the end-to-end technical strategy for cloud infrastructure across AWS and multi-cloud environments, from conceptual architecture to production readiness.
- Collaborate with technical leads across engineering to ensure cross-group implementations align with Sunbit’s overall technical strategy.
- Design and execute the rollout of AI infrastructure, including governed model access, LLM proxy architectures, inference/serving platforms, and MCP and agent infrastructure.
- Establish AI as a first-class engineering capability across Sunbit (AI SDLC) by deploying governed coding agents, IDE assistants, AI-assisted code review, testing, and documentation-enforcing guardrails, cost controls, and usage visibility to deliver a measurable shift in throughput.
- Architect and continuously evolve CI/CD systems and delivery pipelines at scale to reduce friction and elevate developer safety standards.
- Collaborate directly with backend teams to architect scalable microservices and optimize datastore performance across RDS MySQL, MongoDB, and Snowflake.
- Define and enforce organization-wide observability, reliability, and performance standards, establishing best practices for monitoring, alerting, and system health.
- Cloud security, and incident management processes, ensuring systems remain resilient, secure, and compliant.
- 8+ years in infrastructure/backend engineering, with deep hands-on expertise across both DevOps and Data Infrastructure.
- Technical leadership - Proven track record leading technical direction in complex, distributed environments (as tech lead, staff/principal engineer, or hands-on team lead).
- Mastery of AWS: Deep knowledge of AWS services, security best practices, account management, and cost optimization
- Data Infrastructure Depth: Hands-on experience scaling and managing complex data platforms, including Snowflake, Apache Airflow, MongoDB, RDS MySQL, and streaming/batch framework concepts (Kafka, Spark).
- Orchestration & Containers: Expert-level Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker; strong Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Engineering Standards: Deep understanding of SRE principles, SOC 2 security compliance, cloud networking (WAF, VPCs, IAM)
- Database Ops: Solid understanding of the DevOps aspects of MySQL/RDS and MongoDB (scaling, backups, performance tuning).
- Backend: Working proficiency in Java microservices: able to read, review, and challenge backend architecture and service dependencies.
- Team Player: Strong communication skills and a "can-do" attitude - you enjoy solving problems as part of a collaborative squad.
Advantages
- Technical background in fintech, loan servicing, or compliance-heavy financial architectures.
Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer
We’ve been made aware of fraudsters impersonating Sunbit employees during the hiring process. Please note that all official communication will come from an @sunbit.com email address, through our applicant tracking platform @sunbit.comeet-notifications.com or directly via LinkedIn. We will never ask for your age, Social Security number, bank account details, payment of any kind, or other unrelated personal information during the application process. Our hiring process always includes interviews, either by phone, zoom, or in person, before any offer is made. If something feels suspicious, please contact us at HR to confirm. We ask that you contact HR only about potential instances of fraud. HR does not reach our recruiting team directly. Your application directly through the posting is the best way to ensure that your candidacy is reviewed by our team. Due to the volume of applications, we will not respond to nor forward emails about your candidacy that are sent to HR directly, and your email about your application will be deleted from our systems.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or backend engineering
- Deep hands-on expertise in DevOps and data infrastructure
- Proven technical leadership in complex, distributed environments
- Mastery of AWS services, security, account management, and cost optimization
- Experience scaling and managing Snowflake, Apache Airflow, MongoDB, and RDS MySQL
- Knowledge of streaming and batch frameworks such as Kafka and Spark
- Expertise with Kubernetes, including EKS, and Docker
- Strong Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD experience, including GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Deep understanding of SRE principles and SOC 2 security compliance
- Experience with cloud networking, including WAF, VPCs, and IAM
- Understanding of MySQL/RDS and MongoDB scaling, backups, and performance tuning
- Working proficiency in Java microservices and backend architecture
- Strong communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
- Technical background in fintech, loan servicing, or compliance-heavy financial architectures
Sunbit Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sunbit and has not been reviewed or approved by Sunbit.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests the benefits package includes broad medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside related supports like life insurance and spending accounts. The overall offering is often described as solid by US tech/fintech norms, even when details vary by role.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests a 401(k) with company matching is part of the rewards package. This is positioned as a core, consistent element of the overall benefits offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests time-off benefits can be generous in some roles, including listings of unlimited PTO and paid holidays. At the same time, certain postings indicate a more traditional fixed PTO structure, implying variability by role type.
Sunbit Insights
What We Do
Sunbit is the preferred buy now, pay later technology of service providers and retailers fulfilling the needs of thousands of local communities. Sunbit eases the stress of buying everyday things by offering access to fast, fair and transparent payment options to people across the credit spectrum. Sunbit technology is offered in-store and online through more than 7,300 locations, including 1 in 4 auto dealership service centers, optical practices, dentist offices and specialty health care services. Payment options through Sunbit can be found at these establishments www.sunbit.com/shop-directory Loans are made by Transportation Alliance Bank, Inc., dba TAB Bank, which determines qualifications for and terms of credit.
Why Work With Us
Sunbit technology is used to reduce the stress from daily purchases by helping shoppers realize the full potential of their buying power while providing local businesses with tools to sell easier. With experts in machine learning, retail, and financial services, we’re trailblazing new technology that helps lenders open the door to fair financing.
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