p>• Architect, build, and maintain a robust application management and loan repayment platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability across front-end and back-end systems • Leverage full-stack engineering skills to contribute alongside team and build a polished & accessible end-user experience that tens of thousands of students and program administrators love, and develop best of breed API on reliable infrastructure for our partners to leverage • Set best practices for code quality, system design, and security while mentoring engineers and conducting code reviews • Oversee 2-3 engineers' day-to-day operations with the support of the Director of Engineering • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to define and prioritize work, break down large initiatives into achievable milestones, and balance technical debt with new feature development • Spec out stories with the engineering team and product leadership, and lead the team in continually reflecting on how to better deliver value and operate as a team • Foster a strong engineering culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement • Participate in future on-call rotations and ensure by building self-healing and resilient systems and leveraging infrastructure as code and monitoring tools that our systems are highly available. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent bootcamp or upskilling program experience • Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar) and ownership of deployment strategies, release management, and production monitoring • Experience working closely with Product teams to define technical requirements and Compliance teams to ensure regulatory adherence in financial services or similarly regulated environments • Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs, align stakeholders, and make informed decisions under ambiguity • 4+ years working in a SaaS startup regularly building and owning the complete E2E technology stack for Web Application (Frontend + Backend + Cloud + CI/CD) • Deep experience with a combination of the following technologies: • Javascript & TypeScript (React, NextJS, Recoil (other state management libraries)) • Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.) • HTML • CSS • Databases: SQL (we use PostgreSQL) • Cloud: AWS or Google Cloud experience • Design: We use Figma; understanding of responsive design • DevOps: Experience with CI/CD and modern cloud and container tooling.