Avant is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build the future of consumer lending by providing personal loans and credit cards to millions of customers across the US, empowering them to take control of their financial futures.
Requirements
- Strong experience with microservices and event-driven architecture design and best practices.
- Extensive experience with Kafka (producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and stream processing).
- Deep knowledge of asynchronous processing and message queuing patterns.
- Solid experience with back-end development using languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or .NET.
- Strong understanding of database systems, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong background in designing and implementing distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop scalable and robust solutions for Avant’s credit card and loan servicing products and services.
- Partner with Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to build the architectural vision and roadmap to improve system architecture and scale our systems.
- Work with Product Management and other stakeholders to design features that improve our customer experience and internal operations.
- Collaborate with engineering peers at all levels to maintain and enhance Avant's digital servicing platform and continuously improve system performance and maintainability.
- Build and improve observability and monitoring to enhance operational efficiency of our platform.
- Build and improve system CI/CD pipeline and test automation systems to reduce cycle time and increase feature delivery velocity.
Other
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a passion for performance optimization.
- Strong experience with observability and monitoring and incident management processes.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience working in collaborative, fast-paced environments.
