Target Range:
$150,000.00 /Yr. - $170,000.00 /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 role will report onsite to our San Diego, CA. location. Remote or hybrid is not available.Axos Bank is seeking a First Vice President of Platform & Automation Engineering. This exciting, new role exists to make Operational Transformation's mission real: using AI and automation to drive operational efficiency across Commercial Lending, Commercial Banking & Securities. It is the platform and stack architect for that effort, owning the technical backbone every delivery pod builds on, including ReTool, n8n, JavaScript and/or Python, the AI/intelligence agent layer, the operational data store (ODS), and the API layer, while setting the standards and patterns that keep five-plus pods building the same way instead of reinventing the stack independently.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a coordination or project management seat. The FVP needs genuine depth in AI technology, including working knowledge of what these tools can automate reliably today and where they still need guardrails, and personally drives technical execution rather than only setting direction. They are the standing platform expert every pod's Forward Engineers and Platform Engineers turn to when a design question needs a definitive answer. Forward Engineering and Platform Engineering report into this role across all pods, giving it direct control over how the technical layer gets built, not just influence over it.Responsibilities:
Platform & Stack Architecture
● Own the technical architecture of the shared platform stack: ReTool (front-end/UI layer), n8n (workflow/automation layer), the AI/intelligence agent layer, the ODS, and the API layer that connects them.
● Set and enforce engineering standards and design patterns across all pods, including schema conventions, API contracts, reusable n8n node patterns, and ReTool component standards, so pods compose on a common foundation instead of diverging.
● Own the ODS data model and the API layer design decisions that every pod depends on.
● Ensure compliance with all engineering and information security policies and directives.
Operational Efficiency Through AI & Automation
● Own the design and governance of the AI/intelligence agent layer: where agentic automation is reliable enough for production use versus where it still needs guardrails, and the standards pods follow when building new agents.
● Implement an AI-driven development lifecycle (AIDLC) across Operational Transformation, embedding AI into planning, coding, testing, and delivery as the standard way pods work.
● Translate the transformation's core goal, using AI and automation to drive operational efficiency, into concrete technical execution.
● Ensure AI-enabled automation across all pods is designed and executed to a consistent technical standard.
Technical Execution & Delivery Leadership
● Personally drive technical execution across pods. This is a roll-up-your-sleeves role, requiring the leader to step directly into a pod's hardest technical problems.
● Lead, develop, and hold accountable the Forward Engineers and Platform Engineers across all pods, including technical career growth and consistent technical practice.
● Partner with each pod's Process Product Management function to translate business-process findings into sound technical design before a pod starts building.
● Serve as the technical escalation point across Commercial Lending, Commercial Banking & Securities when a design or architecture decision needs a single accountable owner.
● Establish technical testability and automation standards that Quality Assurance tests against, ensuring QA in each pod has a consistent, automatable standard to validate rather than a bespoke one per pod.
● Own pod-level technical delivery pace and quality, exercised through the Forward Engineers and Platform Engineers embedded in each pod rather than through direct day-to-day pod management.
● Maintain cross-pod technical coherence, flagging and correcting pattern drift before it hardens into incompatible platform forks across Servicing, Portfolio Management/Special Assets, Securities, and Commercial Banking.
Requirements:
●Bachelor's degree or higher in related field
●10+ years in software engineering with meaningful time in a hands-on architecture or platform-lead capacity.
●Current, hands-on experience with low-code/workflow automation platforms (ReTool, n8n, or direct equivalents).
●Direct experience designing and operating API layers and operational data stores (ODS) that multiple teams build against.
● Current working knowledge of AI/LLM technology.
● Proven experience shipping AI/agentic automation into production.
● Track record implementing AI-driven development practices (AIDLC) at scale, with measurable delivery impact.
● Experience setting engineering standards across multiple teams.
● Financial services or other regulated-industry experience strongly preferred, given the audit and compliance context surrounding ODS, API, and AI-driven changes.
Axos Employee Benefits May Include:
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)
HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits
401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan
Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading
About Axos
Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynamic, insightful, and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.
Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).
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Pre-Employment Background Check and Drug Test:
All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment drug screening, which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level, marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore, we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana, regardless of state legalization.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Job Functions and Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
E-Verify and Right to Work Notices
Axos participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States. The E-Verify program is an internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant hands-on architecture or platform leadership
- Current hands-on experience with low-code or workflow automation platforms such as ReTool or n8n, or direct equivalents
- Experience designing and operating API layers and operational data stores used by multiple teams
- Current working knowledge of AI and LLM technology
- Experience shipping AI or agentic automation into production
- Experience implementing AI-driven development practices at scale with measurable delivery impact
- Experience establishing engineering standards across multiple teams
- Financial services or other regulated-industry experience
Axos Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Axos Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Axos Bank.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with multiple plan choices, plus HSA/FSA options and an Employee Assistance Program. Employer HSA contributions and extras like pet insurance and onsite fitness centers at some locations expand the wellness offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes around 15 days of vacation for new hires, paid sick leave, and up to 11 company holidays annually. Availability of certain perks and holiday specifics can vary by location or subsidiary, but the baseline PTO/holiday combination is broadly competitive.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is offered alongside additional financial programs like a 529 plan, employee mortgage loans, and banking/trading perks. Automatic enrollment and structured matching underscore tangible retirement support for longer‑tenured employees.
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What We Do
Axos is a technology-driven financial services company providing a diverse and ever-growing range of innovative products and services for personal, business and institutional clients nationwide. Powered by exceptional team members, a clearly defined set of values and a culture that is both meritocratic and self-governing, we are transforming banking as we know it. Our mission is summed up in two words: Banking Evolved. Banking Evolved means providing products and services that are technologically superior to our competitors and that offer our customers an unbeatable value proposition. Banking Evolved means continuously innovating and excelling in the following areas: • The incubation, creation and deployment of new businesses and tools that best serve our customers; • The evolution, optimization, delivery, distribution and marketing of our products; • The harnessing of data and technology to manage our business most effectively and efficiently; and • The development and engagement of our team members. To be part of the Axos team is to live our values as your own, to work with a strong sense of individual purpose and to embody a commitment to the shared success of our business. As a meritocracy, we believe that success is earned. We reward individuals on the basis of their achievements. As a self-governing organization, we derive strength from the internal resourcefulness of each individual. We emphasize independence, goal-setting and personal accountability.
