Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team, with a defined path to expanding ownership across the full Pros Financing & Payments engineering organization
Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, building a high-performance, accountable engineering culture
Own hiring, calibration, and career development for a team operating in an expanding domain
Define and communicate a multi-quarter engineering roadmap tied to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes
Own the architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting decisioning, submission and approval workflows, funding, and payments processing
Guide technical decisions across a distributed, event-driven services ecosystem supporting high-volume, time-sensitive financial transactions
Set and enforce engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability appropriate to a regulated lending and payments environment
Champion modern engineering practices — including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows — to raise team velocity and quality
Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align engineering delivery with contractor-facing financing and payments outcomes
Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, balancing speed, risk, and system stability
Define and track KPIs across financing/payments transaction volume, submission-to-close conversion, and fraud/delinquency risk metrics
Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation across the Financing & Payments service estate
Manage technical debt and platform scalability as transaction volume and product surface area grow
Establish the operating rigor — on-call, incident response, SLAs — required for systems that gate real money movement
Strategic Leadership & People Management
Technical Leadership
Cross-Functional Execution
Process & Platform Maturity
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles managing managers and cross-functional teams
Proven track record leading engineering for complex, regulated fintech, lending, or payments platforms
Deep experience with distributed, event-driven microservices architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems
Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems, loan origination or servicing pipelines, or payments processing infrastructure
Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
Track record of scaling an engineering organization through growth — hiring, structuring teams, and expanding scope
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable operating across Product, Risk, and Compliance
Nice to Haves
Experience in point-of-sale financing, home improvement/solar lending, or contractor-facing fintech
Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering throughput
Background scaling a platform team from a single product line into a broader organization — mirroring this role's growth path
Skills Required
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership managing managers and cross-functional teams
- Proven track record leading engineering for complex, regulated fintech, lending, or payments platforms
- Deep experience with distributed, event-driven microservices architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems
- Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems, loan origination or servicing pipelines, or payments processing infrastructure
- Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
- Track record of scaling an engineering organization through growth — hiring, structuring teams, and expanding scope
- Experience setting and enforcing engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability in regulated environments
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, collaborating across Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations
- Experience in point-of-sale financing, home improvement/solar lending, or contractor-facing fintech
- Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle
- Background scaling a platform team from a single product line into a broader organization
GoodLeap Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GoodLeap and has not been reviewed or approved by GoodLeap.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests GoodLeap provides comprehensive healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance alongside EAP and mental-health support. On balance, the core coverage breadth appears solid.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests employees receive PTO, paid holidays, and sick time within a defined time-away program. Notes also highlight vacation and leave programs as standard offerings.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests parental and family medical leave are available. Recent mentions indicate parental leave was expanded in January 2026.
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What We Do
GoodLeap is a sustainable home solutions marketplace. We provide simple, fast, and frictionless point-of-sale technology for countless mission-driven professionals serving millions of people who want to upgrade their homes and save money. Our platform offers flexible ways for consumers to pay for a wide range of sustainable products, including solar panels, battery storage, smart home devices, modern HVAC systems, energy efficient windows, upgraded roofing, water-saving turf, and more. We are committed to caring for the planet, building lasting relationships with our valued partners and customers, and delivering cutting-edge technology that enables more people to embrace a sustainable lifestyle.
