Fundrise

Role Description We're seeking a Lead Software Engineer to manage a team within our API Engineering group. This team owns the services at the core of Fundrise’s investor application: the APIs that drive authentication, investing, account management, and more, and it drives everything underneath our flagship investor web, iOS, and Android applications. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be measured on the output, quality, and growth of your team. This is a people-management role in which you'll set technical direction, coach engineers, and help drive outputs through daily hands-on software engineering, making sound architectural calls, and solving the problems no one else can crack. Success in this role looks like a team that quickly and consistently turns product, operational, and compliance requirements into software to drive Fundrise forward. In this role, you will: - Manage and mentor a team of software engineers through effective weekly one-on-ones, deliberate delegation, and growth feedback - Own your team's delivery, breaking down work, coordinating across teams, and shipping against ambitious but achievable timelines - Hold the team to a high quality bar of production code, conducting thorough code reviews and making merge and deployment decisions - Drive design and architecture for Fundrise services and contribute to a long-term team roadmap - Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering stakeholders across the organization to quickly implement complex functionality - Champion application security as a critical part of the work in a regulated financial services environment - Own production monitoring and triage across our services and third-party integrations Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate - 3+ years leading and managing engineers: running 1:1s, driving team performance through candid feedback, and owning your team's delivery, quality, and growth - 4+ years building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services like ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB and WAF - A deep understanding of transactional database design and operations - A track record of improving existing systems in operationally complex environments Preferred Qualifications - Demonstrated experience building and maintaining secure software, including a solid understanding of common threats and principles for writing secure code - Comfortable tackling problems without obvious answers, and can rapidly absorb new languages and frameworks in order to implement the best software solutions - Experience managing high performing engineering teams - A passion for working backwards from the outcomes the business needs to the engineering decisions that will achieve them Benefits - Remote-first work environment (must live in the United States) - Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, with Fundrise contributing to both employee and dependent premiums - Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses, dependent care, and parking - 401(k) with 3% contributed by Fundrise, regardless of whether you are actively contributing yourself - Fully covered life insurance and short-term disability - Significant equity via our employee stock grant program - Gympass benefit including mental health resources - Flexible PTO - Employee Assistance Program - Paid parental leave - $190,000 - $250,000 a year

• Design and build practical enhancements to our investment screening and fraud prevention platform, including decisioning systems and integrations with third-party data providers • Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and production support • Make pragmatic tradeoffs and incorporate stakeholder feedback to deliver reliable, compliant solutions without unnecessary complexity • Maintain, monitor, and improve systems and infrastructure deployed on AWS • Partner closely with Operations, Legal, Product, and Finance to translate screening and compliance requirements into effective software solutions • Review pull requests and contribute to a culture of high-quality, maintainable, and pragmatic engineering