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.
What You’ll Do:
Sunbit is seeking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Purchase Squad. This team is at the heart of our company's operations, responsible for developing and maintaining our core loan application system. This role will be involved in complex system architecture, providing unique challenges that demand a strong passion for architecture, outstanding coding skills, and a continuous learning mindset.
Key Responsibilities:
Contribute to the development of our core loan application system, ensuring high-quality products and services.
Solve complex architectural problems, utilizing your deep understanding of system architecture.
Collaborate with other team members, sharing your expertise and facilitating a culture of learning.
Maintain our system architecture, ensuring smooth operation and quality user experience.
Be an advocate for clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
Provide mentorship to junior team members, nurturing their growth and development.
Requirements- Proficiency in modern system architecture with large-scale and high performance.
- Strong problem-solving skills, capable of meeting technical challenges head-on.
- Proven ability to mentor junior developers, guiding them to reach their full potential.
- A passion for learning, constantly staying up to date with industry trends and technology advancements.
- Resourceful, self-motivated, and capable of working independently.
- Experience with AI tools and a strong interest in continuously exploring and applying them in everyday work are highly valued.
- B.Sc in computer science or equivalent.
- Fluent English
Preferred Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, focusing on system architecture.
- Experience with software development in Kotlin or Java.
- Prior experience in a fintech company is highly desirable.
- Experience with a microservices architecture
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with Spring framework.
- Experience with event streaming systems.
- Experience in Data mesh.
- Experience in payment processing or other financial services.
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 [email protected] to confirm. We ask that you contact [email protected] only about potential instances of fraud. [email protected] 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 [email protected] directly, and your email about your application will be deleted from our systems.
Skills Required
- Proficiency in modern system architecture for large-scale, high-performance systems
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to mentor junior developers
- Resourceful, self-motivated, capable of working independently
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Fluent English
- Experience with AI tools and interest in applying them
- 10+ years of software engineering experience focusing on system architecture
- Experience with Kotlin or Java
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Spring framework
- Experience with event streaming systems
- Experience with Data Mesh
- Experience in payment processing or financial services
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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