Lead Software Engineer

A global leader in online financial services — not to mention a fun, challenging and unique place to work for over 800 employees in Chicago!

As a Lead Software Engineer you’ll be one of Enova’s heavy hitters, overseeing technical components of major projects. We’re going to ask you to build a bridge, and you’ll get it built, no matter what. You’ll balance technical requirements with business needs, while advocating for a high quality codebase when working with full business teams. You’re fluent in ‘technical’ language and ‘business’ language, because you’re the engineer everyone counts on to understand how it works now, how it should work, and how it will work. And through all this, you’ll make sure our younger team members develop to be amazing engineers.

You’re right for this job if you:

• are comfortable solving problems in more than one language, and know exactly why one of them is better
• have built software features that required talking to multiple services, touching legacy code, and balancing multiple conflicting requirements
• have proven project management skills, specifically the ability to estimate scope, break up problems into deliverable chunks, and pivot when requirements change
• have experience with Ruby, Perl, Python, Java, or PHP have deployed multiple web applications from the perspective of both a front-end and back-end developer
• have worked with product managers to plan and scope products over the course of several releases
• have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

We’re even more impressed if you:

• have launched software using Ruby, Rails, Linux, Angular, Ember, or PostgreSQL
• employ a working knowledge of modern web standards including HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Applications
• contribute regularly to popular open-source projects (send us GitHub links!)
• have given technical talks at conferences or meetups on subjects you are passionate about
• have utilized Domain Driven Design to build well structured and flexible architectures