Principal Services Engineer
What you’ll be doing:In this role, you will serve as part of the senior leadership, working in an interdisciplinary manner with other departments to develop the service oriented architecture. You will drive improvements in our product strategy and translate that strategy into an executable roadmap that continues to innovate. Additionally, you will align significant technology initiatives with larger Software Engineering and company goals, and drive them end-to-end across multiple architectural tiers.
Your core priorities will be to:
- Identify gaps in architecture, technology, and process, and take action to address them.
- Anticipate the future direction of technology and leverage expertise in partnership with other Principal Engineers to evolve Enova’s software architecture and design.
- Coordinate implementation of secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available services.
- Champion decision-making across the SE team around application service engineering, working with the entire technology organization to implement, deploy, and support holistic solutions.
- Contribute to and enhance coding standards and procedures. Mentor software engineers and managers to best practices through collaborative development.
- Have a passion for continuous learning: provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommend new and emerging technologies, and drive engineering process and tool improvements.
- Work with business partners, principal engineers, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of system and determine priority of needs.
- Communicate clearly, using concise written and verbal skills, building consensus for technology directions.
- Contribute to Enova’s external brand and demonstrate industry leadership by representing Enova and Enova’s values at conferences and meetups, and by contributing to technology blogs and journals.
What you should have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years as an engineer with experience designing, implementing, and supporting systems/software for large business environments.
- 2+ years as an architect across multiple connected systems.
- Ability to influence and direct strategy across multiple teams.
- Strong familiarity with DDD and SOA principles and architecture practices.
- Experience leveraging message-oriented middleware or queueing services.
- Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project lifecycles, and ability to act autonomously.
- Experience working with Lean and Agile development concepts across multiple teams, working on disparate products and projects.
Software Engineering Overview:
The Software Engineering Team, one of the largest groups in the company, is responsible and accountable for meeting the demands of our current and future businesses. We help create the “Tech” in FinTech.
We are structured into small full-stack teams, each aligned to specific business lines or core services. We code in RoR, Go, Java, and Swift. We use Ember and other JS frameworks for front-end development. The teams are responsible for defining and delivering solutions through smart interactive development.
Although we are divided into unique teams, our culture of collaboration promotes and encourages engagement across every team and department within the company - no team is a silo. This enables us to align our core values and create strong, best practices.
About Enova:
Enova is a leading provider of online financial services that leverages its advanced technology and analytics to provide access to credit for non-prime consumers and small businesses. Our roots are in Chicago, but we have served nearly 5 million customers through our six businesses in the U.S. and abroad. We pride ourselves on hiring smart and driven people who bring new and innovative ideas to the table. Our philosophy is, "Life’s short. Work some place awesome."
Many of us consider our people to be Enova’s best perk. But to sweeten the deal, we also have a pretty awesome list of conventional (and less conventional) perks and benefits including competitive salaries, health care benefits, a 401K matching plan, a revamped parental leave program (and brand new nursing rooms for our returning mothers!) summer hours, tuition reimbursement and a sabbatical program. And of course we also have the things you’d expect at a leading tech company in Chicago, such as the snacks, game room, onsite massages/barbers/nail technicians, monthly social events, and sporting sponsorships.
Our goal at Enova is to recruit, hire, develop and maintain a diverse workforce. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons and not discriminate in employment decisions by placing the most qualified person in each job, without regard to any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.