About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

About you

You are a self-driven, conscientious, fiscally responsible, self-aware, passionate and compassionate software engineer. You are comfortable with ambiguity, eternally curious, and love problem solving. You operate as an owner and work with a growth mindset. You are extremely productive on your own, and act as a multiplier collaborating with others. You are tireless in questioning the status quo and pursue the best answers to the hardest problems to the benefit of the business. Your focus is strong and capable of context switching and pivoting with the business. In the vacuum of leadership, you assume it. You aren’t just a developer; you are a game changer.

The Sr. Director, Software Engineer oversees the implementation of our internal applications. In addition, this individual oversees the QA and Release Management Departments and provides guidance and problem-solving for our Product Development methodologies. This individual also is a key contributor on internal technology related projects by acting as a technical resource.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Leadership:

• Provide an environment where the product development team can be successful. Define Product Development methodology strategy and direction that facilitates CUDC strategic needs.

Product Management:

• Manage the company’s internal products. Work with the various product owners and help support their API product needs by providing guidance. Maintain and enhance the company’s internal applications to improve efficiencies and accuracy of our internal processes.

QA & Release Management:

• Manage the Quality Assurance and Release Management departments to help CUDC release high quality software. Work with Development, QA, Engineering, & Product to establish guidelines and processes for releasing software to our UAT and Production environments.

Technology Integration:

• Support and help provide guidance for CUDC technology-based projects. Act as a project manager and technology resource on the projects and help the respective departments. Focus the team on implementing and integrating in a way that is efficient and beneficial to the departments and CDUC.

Product Development Methodology:

• Provide tools and process to achieve on time delivery of quality software. Work with the product development teams to identify and define improvements in the process.

The Ideal Candidate:

Education:

• B.A or B.S degree in IT or seven years commensurate experience

Experience:

• Minimum of five years experience as a Lead Software Developer
• A minimum of two years managing a group of people in an IT environment
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Working knowledge of SDLC
• Experience using software application platforms (C#, .Net)
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Strong problem solving skills

Specialized Skills:

• Can effectively lead technical initiatives, collaboratively design/requirements meetings while gathering the necessary information for software development.
• Ownership and accountability mindset, strong decision making along with communication and analytical skills that helps to partner with Product Owners and cross functional teams. ·
• Leadership in project execution and delivery. Must be an excellent team player with the ability to handle stressful situations.
• The individual has deep expertise in their chosen technology stack and have a broader knowledge of various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Brings a wealth of experience and a nuanced understanding of the specific domain, enabling insightful decisions and innovative problem-solving.
• Ability to break up larger projects into individual pieces, assess complexity of each piece, and balance the work amongst team members.
• Ability to work in fast paced / flexible environment that practices SAFe / Agile based SDLC.
• Sets high standards for behavior and performance, models the values and principles of the organization, and inspires others through action.
• Practices Test Driven Design leveraging unit tests, mocks, and data factories.
• Experience with event driven design and microservice architecture best practices.
• Posses strong sense of interpersonal awareness, has a bias for action, builds trust, is technically deep, and has good judgement.

Why you should apply:

• Flexible Working Environment
• Paid Time Off
• 401k (8% match)
• College Tuition Benefits/ Tuition Reimbursement
• Good Benefits options
• Company Culture! Cultural and Holiday celebrations, Theme days like Star Wars Day & Bring your Kids to Work Day, Monthly Townhalls and Quarterly Company Meetings that ensure awareness, inclusion, and transparency.

The starting salary range for this full-time position in Irvine, CA is $195600 - $244500 per year. This base pay will take into consideration internal equity, candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge and experience among other factors. Origence maintains a highly competitive compensation program. Under company guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual bonus to provide an incentive to achieve targeted goals. Bonuses are awarded at company’s discretion on an individual basis.

Origence is an equal opportunity employer. All recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be based upon an individuals’ qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, military service, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.