\nBest Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track, so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.\n\n\nWe offer a flexible work experience, top-tier benefits, and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:\n\n\nPut People First – We foster an inclusive, flexible, and fun workplace.\nCreate Clarity – Open communication drives trust and results.\nGet Things Done – We focus, prioritize, and deliver with excellence.\nDeliver with Heart – We lead with kindness, humility, and strong teamwork.\nListen to Our Customers – Their needs drive our innovation.\n\n\nWe are looking for collaborative, innovative team players who like to solve problems. If you're inspired by inspiring others and want to make a real difference, Best Egg is the place for you.\n\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.\n\n\nThe Lead Software Engineer II is responsible for developing robust, scalable backend services that power the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining server-side application logic using Python in a cloud-native AWS environment.\nThe Best Egg native app enables customers to view and service their loans, providing secure and easy access to account information, payment management, and other self-service features. It is a critical part of our digital experience and customer engagement strategy. Best Egg Financial Health is a judgment-free, financial safe space where customers gain practical insights into how their financial decisions impact their ability to access money.\nYou'll be working closely with a highly skilled and growing team to transform how customers interact with credit by enabling data-driven tools such as financial forecasting, budgeting recommendations, loan servicing, and analytics services that support an intelligent and intuitive user experience.\n\n\n\nDuties & Responsibilities\n* Develop and maintain backend systems using Python in an AWS cloud-native environment.\n* Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and services that support mobile and web applications.\n* Develop and support backend services used by the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms.\n* Integrate with data pipelines and analytics services to power real-time financial tools.\n* Ensure systems are monitored, secure, and reliable using observability and logging best practices.\n* Collaborate cross-functionally with front-end developers, mobile engineers, DevOps, data scientists, and product managers.\n* Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and team ceremonies within Agile/Scrum processes.\n* Write clear technical documentation and contribute to design discussions and sprint planning.\n\n\n\nMinimum Requirements\n* We’re looking for a backend engineer with a strong Python background and a few years of experience building reliable, cloud-based systems. The right person is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving problems, and can clearly communicate ideas with both technical and non-technical teammates.\n* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience\n* 3–5 years of backend development experience using Python\n* Strong experience with cloud-native development in AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)\n* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)\n* Experience building and consuming REST APIs\n* Experience supporting mobile app backends is a strong plus\n* Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows\n* Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes) is a plus\n* Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable code\n* Ability to create design docs, mockups, and lead whiteboard discussions\n* Track record solving problems and delivering high-quality solutions\n\nLeadership:\n* The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical leadership, takes ownership of their work, and thrives in cross-functional collaboration. We are seeking an individual who is organized, self-motivated, and committed to mentoring others.\n* Demonstrated technical leadership, including coaching and mentoring team members\n* Ability to take ownership of significant features or services from design through deployment\n* Comfortable interacting with colleagues across engineering, product, design and test engineering\n* High self-efficacy, well-organized, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively\n* Passionate about reducing manual and repetitive work when designing and building backend tools and infrastructure\n\nCulture:\n* The ideal candidate aligns with Best Egg’s core values and culture.  At Best Egg, we’re proud to support millions of people navigating their financial lives. We hold ourselves to high standards—in our work, our collaboration, and how we treat one another. Our team leads with accountability and a shared commitment to our values, customers, and communities.\n* People-first mindset with a focus on inclusion, collaboration, and clear communication\n* Driven to prioritize what matters and deliver results with urgency and excellence\n* Team-oriented, and always listening to improve the customer experience\n* Advocate and practitioner of Agile methodologies\n* Strong communication skills, both written and verbal\n* Values knowledge sharing and continuous improvement\n\n\n\n\n\n$90,000 - $120,000 a yearIn addition to semi-monthly salary payments, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance. Yearly incentive bonus target is 20%.\n\nEmployee Benefits\nBest Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):\n·       Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching\n program\n·       Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-- \n term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company \n holidays \n·       Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options\n·       Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health \n Reimbursement Accounts\n·       Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee\n assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs\n·       Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,\n fitness center reimbursements, and many more!\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n\nIn compliance with the CCPA, Best Egg is fully committed to handling the personal information and data of employees and job applications responsibly with respect and due care. Review our CCPA Employee Policy  here  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, API, Mobile, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $122,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote / Flexible

\nApplication Deadline: Monday, November 20th at 5:00 PM EST \n\nEach day you will work with a cross-functional team of brilliant professionals combining business, design, product, user experience and engineering expertise, working relentlessly to push the boundaries of what’s possible and paving the road for the future of news and entertainment media.\n\nThe Audience Technology group is looking for an experienced, talented and knowledgeable Senior Software Engineer to join the Data/Content Services team responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our data and analytics products and services. These services are used to highlight key trends and insights across podcasts, web, mobile apps and social media.  These datasets are used to extract insights from complex media usage in order to inform stakeholders both at NPR and at Member Stations across the country. \n\nAs a senior software engineer on our team, you will be met with exciting challenges to iterate on existing systems and build new datasets, dashboards and pipelines for analyzing trends in audience engagement.\n\nIn addition, the team is responsible for core backend APIs and other services that are responsible for podcast distribution, as well as content delivery for the NPR.org homepage,  topic stories, and local and national newscasts.  Our stakeholders range from local member stations around the country to key business stakeholders inside of NPR. Come join us and make an impact for the NPR mission!\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with DMU. \n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Support the NPR Content Services and Analytics team in data analytics, dashboarding, and pipelining. \n\n* Write clean, efficient and reusable code based on product requirements\n\n* Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution\n\n* Aid in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipeline implementations\n\n* Knowledge share, write technical designs & participate in code reviews\n\n* Mentor and coach mid-level engineers on code quality and best practices\n\n* Consult with lead and senior engineers while designing comprehensive solutions \n\n* Provide input on system design and architecture within the feature areas and services owned by the team\n\n* Work closely with other software engineers, partner teams, infrastructure engineers, product designers, QA engineers, engineering managers and product managers\n\n* Improve team/development processes\n\n* Join agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint retros, sprint reviews and more\n\n* Join our on-call rotation\n\n* Other duties as assigned\n\n\n\n\nThe above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Fluency in Python, LookML and other data based languages\n\n* Working knowledge of BigQuery or similar (Redshift, Azure, Snowflake, etc.)\n\n* Prior experience working with business intelligence tools like Looker or similar (Tableau, Power BI, Mode, etc.)\n\n* Familiarity with SQL/DML and RDBMS technologies \n\n* Fluency in JavaScript / TypeScript\n\n* Experience in developing and working with RESTful APIs that utilize cloud infrastructure such as AWS\n\n* Ability to develop software that is scalable and performant under high loads.\n\n* Strong Object-Oriented programming skills \n\n* Familiarity with deploying and monitoring production systems\n\n* Experience writing unit and other automated tests using tools like Postman and Jest.\n\n* Knowledge of web development best practices, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, deployment, rollback, testing, monitoring\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Familiarity with R for advanced data analysis\n\n* Experience using APIs to retrieve analytics data\n\n* Excellent problem solving, analysis and data interpretation skills with a keen sense for data inconsistencies.\n\n* Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)\n\n* Familiarity with Salesforce platform\n\n* Advanced experience with Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform, including Lambda, SNS, EC2, ASGs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, RDS and CodeDeploy\n\n* Advanced experience with Google Cloud Platform including BigQuery Omni, Cloud Functions, Dataplex and  Composer.\n\n* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Jenkins, CodeFresh, TravisCI or equivalent)\n\n* Experience using observability and log aggregation platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch)\n\n* Familiarity with different caching layers of caching (browser, DNS, web server, application, etc) and caching technologies/services (Redis, Elasticache, CDNs, AWS CloudFront)\n\n* A passion for NPR’s content and/or familiarity with our digital products\n\n\n\n\nWORK LOCATION\n\nRemote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.\n\nJOB TYPE\n\nThis is a full time, exempt position.\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\nSalary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $126,541 - $134,248 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.\n\nBenefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. \n\nDoes this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Salesforce, JavaScript, Cloud, NoSQL, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States