Director of Engineering, Lending Club
Digital Engagement
$210-245k
+ Eligible to receive a bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Online personal loans
Posted today
Online personal loans
1001+ employees
Posted today
$210-245k
+ Eligible to receive a bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the banking system to make credit more affordable and investing more rewarding. Its technology platform enables it to deliver innovative solutions to borrowers and investors.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a seasoned software engineering leader with hands on skills building web and mobile experiences in fintech
- 10+ years of software development and software architecture experience and a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field of study; or equivalent work experience
- Deep know-how in the technical architecture, common stacks and engineering tools needed to deliver amazing web and mobile experiences in banking or fintech
- Ideally, experience in delivering and/or leading teams working in React Native or Swift/Kotlin native mobile app development; React for web; and Java, Scala, or Python for backend
- Deep experience building, mentoring, and leading software engineering teams, with a strong focus on people development and coaching team members
- Significant leadership experience delivering consumer-facing web and mobile engineering solutions, with understanding of current industry technology stacks and common approaches, best practices, workflows, and troubleshooting
- Hands on skills that are effective in a crisis, a demonstrated ability to quickly lead team through issues resolution, root cause analysis and successfully prioritize corrective action
- Possess a deep understanding of UX and UI driving customer experiences, including common blind spots, ideally in fintech spaces
- Experience directing with hybrid or remote teams across multiple time zones
- A seasoned hand at working with product and design teams in translating their desires into working technology, with past experience in tricky projects
- A good communicator, capable of excellent collaboration with cross-functional partners
- Strong focus on people development and coaching team members
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned Director of Engineering, Digital Engagement to lead our efforts in making engaging, rewarding fintech experiences for our customers
- LendingClub is offering new tools to improve the financial lives of our members across our product lines, and this role will lead software development to deliver the foundational elements of this experience
- The role will need to be passionate about improving people’s lives through technology, empathizing with customer needs to lead a team of deliver an amazing customer experience, driving better financial outcomes for millions of our members
- Drive the long-term technical strategy for our Digital Engagement experiences, helping our customers manage their debt and achieve better results
- Effective people leader, able to attract, hire, and continuously grow top engineering talent
- Create a highly collaborative cross functional environment, ensuring technical implementation aligns with business, product, design and other stakeholders, ensuring our designs are both effective and align with risk and information security standards
- Brainstorm with our teams, bringing the “art of the possible” to the forefront of what technology can do for our members
- Clearly and continuously articulate “What’s Important”, to ensure we focus on the key, critical priorities we need to deliver
- Provide technical expertise in web and mobile end-to-end engineering throughout all development phases, from conception through to publishing to the app stores
- Help define and drive platform implementations to support our projects
- Work closely with product management to deliver cost and time estimates to manage stakeholder expectations, while not sacrificing quality in the process
- Continuously assess our SDLC, and if necessary, adapt in service to delivering repeatable, sustainable and scalable engineering results. Influence across the organization to leverage best practices
- Ensure data is at the forefront of our designs, available to support customer needs, and mapping user journeys to the analytics KPIs we need to understand how our products are being effective
- Drive results through proactively collaborating across organizational boundaries
Our take
Lending Club is a digital bank offering personal loans, auto loan refinancing, and debt consolidation to help individuals manage their finances. It provides flexible loan terms and competitive rates for a variety of needs, as well as high-yield saving and cash-back checking accounts, designed to help customers grow their money.
Focusing on digital solutions, Lending Club removes traditional brick-and-mortar branches, passing the savings on to customers through low fees and better rates. Connecting borrowers with investors in a marketplace model and offering fast loan approvals and competitive interest rates. And it's working, as the platform boasts over 5M members.
To bolster this success, the company acquired Tally Technologies' intellectual property (IP) in a strategic move to enhance its credit management services. By integrating Tally's technologies, Lending Club is set to strengthen its offerings and further improve customer engagement for a future of growth in the digital banking space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2014
$65m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2013
$57m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $332m
Company benefits
- Untracked vacation for salaried employees, which means take it when you need it, and generous paid time off for hourly team members
- A hybrid work model that balances in-office and work from home
- Leading health and safety protocols related to COVID, including complimentary at-home testing kits from Cue Health for those coming to the office
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave for new parents, plus a fully paid, phased return-to-work policy for qualified leaves
- Mothers Rooms and hospital-grade pumps in every LC office
- Generous and varied mental health benefits
- Wellness program with cash incentives — earn up to $75 per month for being active
- Paid volunteer time and donation matching
- Onsite gym, locker room, bike room, and fitness classes (depending on location)
- Café with our own in-house barista
- Stocked pantries with healthy snacks and drinks
- Technology-forward and collaborative office spaces
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Scott Sanborn
(CEO)Previously held leadership positions as the Chief Revenue Officer for publicly traded eHealth Insurance, President of RedEnvelope, Inc., and SVP at the Home Shopping Network. Joined LendingClub in 2010 and has worked as Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and President before becoming the CEO in 2016.
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