Top Fintech Software Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Leads BECU’s API platform strategy, engineering and delivery teams, technology roadmaps, governance, budgeting, vendor partnerships, and agile execution. Oversees scalable, secure APIs using C#/.NET on Azure, GraphQL, and REST; advances API lifecycle standards, CI/CD, quality, security, observability, and cloud-native practices. Builds high-performing teams through coaching, supports modernization initiatives, aligns technology with business goals, and promotes responsible AI-enabled engineering tools.

Build and operate scalable backend services and Kafka/Flink stream-processing pipelines for telemetry from hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. Develop APIs, process geofencing and asset-location data, collaborate with embedded and IoT teams, improve reliability and code quality, manage AWS infrastructure, and mentor engineers.

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Leads the engineering organization building a scalable insurance platform. Owns technical vision, architecture, distributed services, API strategy, delivery, testing, observability, incident response, and security. Manages hiring, team structure, performance, and career development while partnering with Product, Design, Data Science, Compliance, Risk, and Operations. Drives zero-to-one product delivery, cross-functional alignment, responsible AI-assisted engineering, and communication of technical roadmaps to senior leadership.

Build scalable backend services and platform applications supporting fund disbursement and data flows. Define software architecture and roadmaps, improve developer tooling and delivery practices, validate security and reliability, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, product engineering, and product management teams.

Leads the Payments Platform engineering organization, owning strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, and operational health for global payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations. Manages Engineering Managers and senior technical talent, guides scalable and reliable distributed-system architecture, and partners with Product, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, and regional engineering leaders to support growth and regulatory requirements.

Develop scalable, resilient full-stack software for Redfin’s high-traffic rental search experiences. Build consumer-facing ReactJS interfaces, Java services, data ingestion pipelines, and supporting infrastructure on AWS. Apply AI to improve development efficiency, balance infrastructure and business trade-offs, collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, lead features, and participate in on-call support for production reliability.

Lead complex card payments acquiring projects from design through production, building and operating highly reliable systems. Apply deep ISO 8583 and card-network expertise to routing, authorization, capture, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and processing costs. Write production code, develop certification tooling, debug payment messages, establish reusable standards, mentor engineers, use AI coding agents responsibly, and participate in on-call support for critical financial systems.

Lead technically complex card payments projects from design through production while writing and operating highly reliable financial systems. Analyze ISO 8583 messages, network mandates, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, and processing costs. Build production code, testing and certification tooling, shared frameworks, and operational capabilities. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, participate in design reviews and incident response, and establish safe patterns for AI-assisted engineering on critical payment systems.

Leads major cross-department software initiatives from scoping through delivery, establishes technical roadmaps, evaluates technologies through proofs of concept, and guides strategic decisions. Oversees quality assurance, compliance, documentation, standards, and secure software delivery. Mentors teams, manages stakeholders and vendors, supports process improvement, and drives measurable productivity gains. Requires strong software engineering expertise, Java/Spring or Python coding, AWS, Databricks or Snowflake, and experience applying AI in software design.