Senior Software Engineer

*PLEASE NOTE: This position requires the candidate to be located in or near Charlotte, NC. In-office presence is required three days a week.*

THE POSITION

Are you passionate about crafting exceptional online experiences? Do you thrive on solving complex challenges and delighting customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! We're expanding our engineering team to meet the demands of our growing business, and we're seeking a talented individual to join us in building and managing our public-facing websites and internet products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions that drive our business forward. You'll have the opportunity to work on both existing and new projects, leveraging your expertise to create maintainable and scalable applications.

We're looking for someone who excels at breaking down complex problems and designing elegant solutions. You'll be comfortable diving into our existing codebase, making necessary changes while managing risk effectively while moving our engineering stack forward.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop new features and enhance existing functionality in our software stacks.
• Help drive architecture and technical design decisions that lead to robust, scalable functional modules.
• Write clean, efficient, well-documented code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex challenges.
• Ownership mindset in issue resolution.
• Advocate for best practices in SDLC, code reviews, standards, and release management.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and development environments.
• Integrate external services to extend platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior team members, supporting their technical skills and career growth.
• Collaborate effectively with offshore engineers to ensure high-quality software practices.
• Stay updated on emerging software development trends and technologies.
• Foster strong communication and collaboration within the team.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving, analytical skills and context switching.
• Effective communication skills with management, developers, and stakeholders.
• A specialist at delivering requirements multiple times during a sprint cycle.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including ReactJS), and jQuery.
• Leadership experience in engineering teams with both onshore and offshore presence.
• Strong skills in React JavaScript and PHP Laravel frameworks.
• Understanding of Microservices and Micro frontend architecture.
• Experience with backend technologies: PHP (version 8.1+), ASP.NET, and C# .NET.
• Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as React, VueJS, and Angular.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services.
• Familiarity with Docker and Git.
• Proficiency in project management tools: GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, and Confluence.
• Expertise in API integration.
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and SOLID principles.
• Experience in writing unit and functional tests.
• Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience.
• Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience in a leadership role.

BONUS SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Experience in the financial field.
• Experience with high-load systems.
• Knowledge of queue principles.
• Experience with search engines and optimizing core web vitals for search rankings.
• Knowledge of .Net and C# and no hesitation of working in this environment.
• You are knowledgeable of PHP in WordPress as a platform, including custom post types, taxonomies, and use of WordPress beyond typical "blog" use cases.
• Collaborate and problem solve with an eye on continuous improvement.
• Competency in databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Mongo, Document DB and Redis.

COMPANY

• We’re a publicly traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid, and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity, and the knack for just getting stuff done.

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.