Senior Software Engineer, Compliance

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, we’re a remote-first company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Compliance team. This Engineer will bring experience working extensively on projects within the compliance space, specifically, ensuring regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. The right candidate would be someone who is the subject matter expert for the team. They will have familiarity with full stack development but also have expertise in data engineering and data pipelines. They will be building software ranging from consumer communications to audit reports. The primary responsibility is to contribute to, build and maintain compliance (and other) code, to meet the needs of the organization. This role is remote or hybrid in either of our offices (Irving, Texas or NYC). 

Responsibilities: 

• Plan, design and architect high-quality software systems that are maintainable and scalable
• Write clean code to develop high-functioning systems
• Validate functionality of applications and implement automated tests to catch regressions
• Review code and fix bugs
• Collaborate with teammates and internal teams to improve products
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, sample code, and technical docs for other compliance engineers
• Mentor junior members of the team to follow engineering best practices
• Respond to outages with a timely and efficient resolution in support of a production system

Requirements:

• BS+ in Computer Science or a related field strongly preferred
• 7+ years experience in software engineering
• 5+ years in a financial organization (or other regulated industry) working with compliance systems
• 4+ years of Python, React and/or javascript frameworks & SQL experience
• Experience with the AWS ecosystem
• Experience working with consumer financial laws and regulations including but not limited to ECOA, TCPA, FCRA, TILA, UDAAP, FDCPA, EFTA
• Experience designing and implementing microservices and working in a NoSQL stack
• Experience in working with consumer communications and suppression systems for voice, SMS, and email strategies
• Solutions oriented attitude with a willingness to take ownership
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Trained and mentored junior members of the team to become autonomous contributors

Benefits:

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year 
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc

Disclaimer:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

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