Guild Mortgage Company, closing loans and opening doors since 1960. As a mortgage banking firm we are dedicated to serving the home owner/buyer. Our goal is to provide affordable home financing for our customers, utilizing the best terms available while providing a level of professionalism and service unsurpassed in the lending industry.
Position Summary
The Lead Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the technical delivery, quality, and operational health of applications and services within an assigned business or product area. This role combines hands-on full-stack software engineering, application architecture, technical leadership, and deep technical expertise to deliver scalable, secure, reliable solutions primarily within the Microsoft .NET and Azure ecosystem.
The role partners closely with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Security, infrastructure teams, and other engineering resources to translate business needs and architectural direction into effective technical solutions and executable delivery plans. The Lead Software Engineer provides technical ownership across design, development, integration, release readiness, production support, and ongoing system improvement while identifying dependencies, risks, and technical tradeoffs early.
The Lead Software Engineer typically provides technical leadership for engineers working within the assigned area and may delegate implementation or workstream leadership to qualified Senior Software Engineers. Depending on organizational needs, the role may also supervise a small number of engineers; however, its primary focus remains technical leadership, application delivery, and subject matter expertise rather than broader personnel or organizational management
Compensation
This role is an exempt position with a targeted salary range of 124,139.00-181,553.06
Compensation at Guild is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to local and federal minimum wage requirements, education, level of experience, and applicant’s geographical location.
Essential Functions
Application Delivery & Technical Leadership
- Lead technical delivery of software capabilities within an assigned business or product area from solution design through production implementation and support.
- Serve as a primary technical subject-matter expert for assigned applications, services, integrations, and related business processes.
- Translate business requirements and architectural direction into scalable, maintainable technical solutions and executable engineering plans.
- Coordinate engineering activities, technical dependencies, estimates, risks, and implementation sequencing within the assigned area.
- Partner with Product and business stakeholders to understand objectives, clarify technical implications, and support realistic delivery expectations.
- Identify and communicate delivery risks, technical constraints, integration impacts, and tradeoffs to engineering and delivery leadership.
Application Architecture & Engineering
- Design and implement end-to-end enterprise application solutions using C#, .NET, modern front-end technologies, and Microsoft Azure, including user interfaces, application services, APIs, integrations, data access, application security, cloud workload configuration, deployment automation, and observability.
- Provide application architecture leadership across APIs, distributed services, integrations, event-driven solutions, data access, and cloud-native application patterns.
- Ensure solutions meet appropriate standards for scalability, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and operational support.
- Remain hands-on through design, development, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-ofconcepts, and complex implementation work as appropriate.
- Guide engineers in software design, coding practices, testing strategies, integration patterns, and technical problem solving.
- Partner with Architecture to align application designs and technical decisions with broader architectural direction and standards.
DevOps, Cloud & Operational Excellence
- Partner with DevOps, Security, IAM, Networking, and infrastructure teams on CI/CD, cloud environments, deployment architecture, networking, identity, security controls, configuration, and production readiness where implementation requires enterprise standards, shared services, approvals, or specialized access.
- Apply strong working knowledge of Azure application hosting, integration, data, identity, networking, security, and observability capabilities.
- Support infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment, environment management, and repeatable release practices.
- Ensure applications include appropriate automated testing, logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
- Lead or support resolution of complex production issues and drive corrective actions that improve reliability and reduce recurrence.
- Identify and reduce technical debt, recurring defects, performance concerns, and operational risks within the assigned area.
Engineering Leadership
- Mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers and provide technical guidance across implementation and delivery activities.
- Lead technical reviews, design discussions, code reviews, and engineering problem solving sessions.
- Delegate appropriate technical leadership and implementation responsibilities to other senior engineers while maintaining accountability for overall technical delivery within the assigned area.
- Promote strong engineering practices, technical knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- May participate in hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, and professional development activities.
- May supervise a limited number of engineers as organizational needs require.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on full-stack software development experience with C#, .NET, modern .NET application frameworks, and modern front-end technologies such as React and TypeScript.
- Demonstrated experience technically leading delivery of complex enterprise applications or services.
- Strong application architecture and system design skills, including APIs, distributed systems, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures.
- Production experience developing and operating applications within Microsoft Azure.
- Strong understanding of cloud application architecture, including compute, data, messaging, identity, networking, security, and observability considerations.
- Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, third-party integrations, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, software design patterns, automated testing, and maintainable application architecture.
- Experience with source control, CI/CD, automated build and deployment practices, and platforms such as Git and GitLab.
- Hands-on experience implementing cloud workload infrastructure and application configuration using infrastructure-as-code, containers, environment configuration, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices within established enterprise standards and guardrails.
- Experience implementing application logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of secure software development practices and application security considerations.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical decisions, and coordinate implementation across multiple contributors.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservices, Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture, and cloudnative application patterns.
- Experience with Azure-native integration, messaging, container, and managed application services.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or Bicep.
- Experience applying automated security scanning, performance testing, and reliability practices within CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity, testing, and code quality.
- Strong business-domain knowledge in the area supported by the assigned applications or experience developing software for similarly complex business processes.
- Experience in financial services, banking, mortgage, or another regulated industry.
- Microsoft Azure or related technical certifications.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; ability to work in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, Wiki, collaborative cloud-based programs, and third-party software applications required.
- Commitment to company values.
- Customer Service - Proactive attention to each person
- Integrity - Do and say what's right
- Respect - Treat others with dignity
- Collaboration - Listen and work together
- Learning - Seek knowledge and strive for improvement
- Excellence - Deliver the unexpected
Educational Level
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field preferred.
Experience
Minimum seven years progressive software engineering experience, including experience designing and delivering complex enterprise applications and at least three years providing senior-level technical or engineering leadership.
Supervisory Experience
Minimum three years formal supervisory experience is not required. Technical leadership, supervisory or leadership mentoring, or work-lead experience is required. Prior people experience management experience is preferred for assignments that include direct reports.
Requirements
Physical Demands
Work is primarily sedentary, mobility in an office setting.
Manual Dexterity
Ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards
Audi/Visual
Ability to accurately interpret sounds and associated meanings at a volume consistent with interpersonal conversation.
Environmental
Office environment – moderate noise, no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
Mental
This role requires effective adaptation to workplace stressors, including customer service complaints, security responsibilities, and competing priorities.
Schedules
Work is primarily performed during the business week, Monday - Friday; occasional night or weekend may be necessary.
Travel
5-10%
Guild offers a pleasant work environment, competitive compensation and excellent benefits package; including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, LTD and 401(k) with employer match.
Guild Mortgage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
REQ#: LEADS018553
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Skills Required
- Hands-on full-stack software development experience with C#, .NET, modern .NET frameworks, React, and TypeScript
- Experience technically leading delivery of complex enterprise applications or services
- Application architecture and system design experience, including APIs, distributed systems, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures
- Production experience developing and operating applications in Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of cloud application architecture, including compute, data, messaging, identity, networking, security, and observability
- Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, third-party integrations, and enterprise integration patterns
- Understanding of object-oriented design, software design patterns, automated testing, and maintainable application architecture
- Experience with source control, CI/CD, automated builds, and deployment platforms such as Git and GitLab
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, containers, environment configuration, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices
- Experience implementing application logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production troubleshooting
- Understanding of secure software development and application security
- Ability to mentor engineers, lead technical decisions, and coordinate implementation across multiple contributors
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Minimum seven years of progressive software engineering experience
- At least three years of senior-level technical or engineering leadership experience
- Technical leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or work-lead experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related technical field
- Experience with microservices, Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture, and cloud-native application patterns
- Experience with Azure-native integration, messaging, container, and managed application services
- Experience with Terraform or Bicep
- Experience with automated security scanning, performance testing, and reliability practices in CI/CD pipelines
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools
- Experience in financial services, banking, mortgage, or another regulated industry
- Microsoft Azure or related technical certifications
- Formal people-management experience for assignments with direct reports
Guild Mortgage Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Guild Mortgage and has not been reviewed or approved by Guild Mortgage.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid parental leave is described as generous, with 12 weeks for medical, non-birthing parent, and caregiving leave from day one, and 18–20 weeks for birthing parents. This indicates strong support for families across different caregiving situations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays include a collective week off around July 4 and floating holidays, with PTO that rolls over and a five‑week paid sabbatical after 4.5 years. Additional options include sick leave, volunteer time, bereavement, jury duty, and open PTO for some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage are offered alongside life and disability insurance, with options to purchase enhanced policies. Wellbeing perks such as a fitness stipend complement the core health benefits.
Guild Mortgage Insights
What We Do
Guild Mortgage has become one of the nation’s leading independent mortgage providers by following a simple rule—doing what’s right for our customers. Since 1960, we’ve grown through every economic cycle. Today, no other mortgage lender has our stability, experience and uncompromising focus on customer service. When you choose Guild, you get: - A commitment closing your loan on time - A wide array of specialized products and programs for every type of homebuyer - Loan officers you can meet face-to-face or online - A direct lender that tailors each loan to fit the needs of individual borrowers - Long-term relationships—we service the majority of loans we close Guild Mortgage Company; Equal Housing Opportunity; AZ BK #0018883; Licensed by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act; MA Mortgage Lender License #MC3274; MA Mortgage Broker License #MC3274; Licensed by the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance; Licensed by the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance; NV Mortgage Company #1141; OR ML-176; Rhode Island Licensed Lender; Rhode Island Licensed Third-Party Loan Servicer; Company NMLS ID 3274. www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/. All loans subject to underwriter approval. Terms and conditions apply, subject to change without notice. Guild Mortgage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Guild Mortgage Company 5887 Copley Drive, San Diego, CA 92111; For more licensing information, please visit www.guildmortgage.com/licensing.
