Staff Software Engineer, MeridianLink
AI Platform
$126-214.6k
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
$126-214.6k
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
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas
- Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale
- Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing or building systems that integrate large language models or other ML models into production software
- Demonstrated experience building shared platform services or internal developer platforms, not just application-level features
- Proficiency with cloud-managed AI services (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent) and the operational characteristics of running AI workloads in production
- Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation architectures, vector search, and embedding pipeline design
- Experience designing systems in regulated industries where data handling, audit trails, and compliance constraints shape technical decisions
Desirable
- Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated financial services environments
- Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks and techniques for measuring output quality and detecting model degradation
- Experience with prompt management, versioning, and experimentation at scale
- Prior work on developer-facing platforms with a focus on adoption and internal developer experience
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
- 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
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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