CareerPlan

Staff Engineer (Credit & Underwriting)

MadridFull-time2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead technical strategy and architecture for mission-critical systems within a global financial platform, guiding teams on high-leverage technical decisions and trade-offs.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Engineering Leadership)

Builds

Large-scale, business-critical systems for a global financial platform

Domain

FinTech / Financial Services

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System design, distributed systems, modern programming languages, technical leadership, mentoring, architectural decision-making, CI/CD, observability, risk management

Preferred skills

Experience in fintech, AI-assisted development tools, cross-team collaboration

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across critical domains; Set architectural direction and drive long-term technology strategy; Partner with Product and Design leadership to translate business outcomes into technical solutions; Operate across the full system lifecycle from discovery to production; Raise the technical bar by defining engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers; Identify systemic risks and drive initiatives to improve velocity and resilience; Champion engineering excellence in testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities