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About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop financial tools that empower contractors to manage and grow their businesses. This role involves designing and scaling backend services for critical operations like payments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and reliable tools, and reducing operational friction for contractors.

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and evolve scalable, high-performance APIs and backend services for contractor financial tools
Build secure and reliable capabilities that support payments and other financial workflows
Integrate with internal and external systems while keeping services maintainable and extensible
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Finance, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into resilient technical solutions
Drive the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, and post-launch support
Mentor and guide engineers across the team, setting high standards for system design, security, scalability, and code quality
Champion operational excellence through strong practices around observability, documentation, monitoring, alerting, and incident response

Requirements

8+ years of software development experience
Deep backend expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Strong system design skills, with experience building scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and APIs
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, leadership-oriented mindset
Passion for clean, maintainable code, mentoring others, and continuous improvement

Skills

Node.js
TypeScript
NestJS
AWS
System Design
Distributed Systems
API Design
Clean Code
Mentoring
Continuous Improvement
B2B SaaS
Financial Technology
Business Operations
Event-driven Architectures
Domain-Driven Design
Third-party Integrations

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff
8+ years

Salary/Compensations

$155,400 - $193,500 a year
Base pay range (CA, WA, NJ, MA, DC, NYC) per year: $170,900 - $193,500
Base pay range (all other US locations) per year: $155,400- $175,900
This role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.

About the Company

GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more.
Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand.
Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations.
Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.
GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.

Equal Opportunity

The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.