Development Lead, MeridianLink
VCP
Compensation: $0 – $200K
Digital lending platform for every financial institution
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Digital lending platform for every financial institution
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Compensation: $0 – $200K
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate and simplify workflows while helping community financial institutions grow, scale and serve their consumers and communities.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience in C#/.Net and modern UI frameworks (React.js)
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
- Experience with AI development tools and methodologies
- Strong backend, frontend, and cloud engineering experience
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Success in this role is measured through technical contribution, collaboration, engineering quality, operational reliability, and the ability to positively influence team effectiveness and software delivery outcomes
What the job involves
- The Development Team Lead is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for guiding a cross-functional engineering team while remaining actively involved in software delivery
- This role focuses on engineering execution, technical mentorship, delivery consistency, and modernization initiatives
- Lead technical execution for an agile engineering team
- Remain actively involved in architecture and hands-on coding
- Mentor engineers and improve delivery practices
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership and coordination for an agile engineering team
- Partner with Product and QA on roadmap execution
- Improve operational reliability and engineering standards
- We value engineers who enjoy building, improving, and simplifying systems. This role provides the opportunity to work across product, platform, and engineering initiatives that directly influence customer experience and business outcomes
Our take
MeridianLink provides modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies. Specifically, it powers digital lending and account opening for the former and data verifications for the latter.
The company has been trusted for over 20 years and has remained adaptable and open to change with the industry, such as its recent addition of engagement features that offer new ways to help financial services drive growth, reach target audiences and adjust campaigns to meet business and customer needs. It has therefore maintained a number of impressive customers, from BankPlus and American United to FirstBank and TwinStar.
Building on this track record, MeridianLink was recently acquired by Centerbridge Partners, marking an important step forward. Going private in this $2B deal gives the company flexibility to accelerate innovation, expand its platform, and leverage AI and data more effectively. With Centerbridge's support, MeridianLink is in a good position to strengthen its competitive edge and continue helping financial institutions grow in a rapidly evolving market.
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Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Ongoing development: Continuous learning is essential to growth, and we’re committed to helping our employees thrive. You’ll have the opportunity to take part in job-specific training, monthly soft-skill sessions, and leadership classes designed to support your development at every stage.
- Access to executives: Have a good idea? Share it with peers, managers, or executives. Our leadership is approachable and actively involved in supporting your work.
- Health lifestyle: Healthy staff makes us happy. We support our team members with resources and programs that promote financial, physical, and mental health—encouraging balance, self-care, and a lifestyle that helps you feel your best every day.
- Celebrations: All work and no play makes for a dull day. We celebrate holidays, birthdays, work anniversaries, and other milestones with fun activities that bring us together. We also provide channels for employees to recognize and celebrate each other’s achievements, making appreciation a regular part of our culture.
- Community partnering: Take a day off with pay to volunteer where it matters most to you or join the company in various community service projects throughout the year.
Company HQ
Irvine Technology Center, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Larry Katz
(CEO)Larry joined MeridianLink in 2023 as CFO and became CEO in 2025. Prior to this, they were the CFO at StubHub and Genesys as well as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. for 15 years.
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