Who Are We?

Spring EQ was founded to help homeowners unlock the value of their home by providing visibility to it’s worth, and provide quick access to that equity.  Our foundation expanded to include direct mortgage lending in 2019 as interest rates reached historic low levels which set off an unprecedented round of refinancing and home buying opportunities for our borrowers.  By surrounding ourselves with some of the brightest, hard-working minds in the industry, we constantly improve the loan experience for our customers.

At Spring EQ, we:

• Strive to make every customer interaction a great one
• Recognize behind every loan is a person or family trusting us to handle what may be a once in a lifetime transaction
• Work hard and have fun to get the job done
• Interact on a first name basis and recognize each team member's unique value
• Encourage ways for our team members to learn, develop, diversify and grow with Spring EQ
• Promote our team members so they can share their knowledge with others   
• Innovate, innovate, innovate
• Create and embrace the latest technology  
• Simplify constantly, challenging every process we use to better accomplish our goals
• Build upon a strong company culture and foster an environment of togetherness, support, and accountability.

Spring EQ is looking for a Solutions Architect to guide architecture and development of a cutting-edge, mission critical application suite which aims to digitize customer acquisition and loan manufacturing processes of a pre-eminent home equity lender which is bringing wall street to main street. This role, working with our Chief Digital Officer and Product Managers, will be a key member of the business transformation team reporting to the Chief Digital Officer.

• Design and develop technical solution (including application architecture, solution design, deployment architecture, integration design etc.) for software projects based on product specifications
• Define best practices, design standards and coding standards to be followed by engineering team to make technical delivery consistent across projects
• Develop solutions using latest technology stacks and provide strategy/roadmap for upgrading tech stack for existing products/solutions
• Coordinate with product managers in defining project scope and possible approaches to fulfil business requirements
• Oversee software development team in developing and testing software applications
• Participate in design, code and test plan reviews and walk-throughs as needed and provide appropriate design recommendations
• Propose most effective architectural solutions to meet cost, quality, and schedule requirements
• Support engineering team to design prototypes, POCs and to validate application functionality
• Analyze critical software issues and recommend workaround solutions
• Develop and document the approach to handle non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, security, and availability
• Assist in development and review of design documents, white papers, training documents and software architectural documents
• Conduct regular team meetings and one-on-one sessions with engineering team to share new ideas and technology updates

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience
• Eight years of engineering/development experience
• 8-10 years of experience designing/developing complex, large scale, consumer facing applications
• Experience working with AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform and cloud native development
• Experience with .Net core
• Experience with ReactJS UI framework, Redis and JavaScript
• Experience leading 10–20-member engineering/development team
• Experience of automated deployment / DevOps tools and technologies
• Working knowledge of source control management tools such as Git
• Experience working with Agile teams
• Worked on/exposure to open standards/specs like REST, Open API, Async API, Open Telemetry, etc.
• Experience working with Message Brokers like JMS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/etc.
• Experience working with one of the NoSQL stores like Cassandra/MongoDB/etc.
• Experience implementing/designing Microservices based system
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes on cloud platforms
• Familiarity with distributed systems
• A player-coach who can pivot being hands-on as well as be a coach/mentor to the engineering team
• Excellent communication, relationship management and negotiation skills
• We worked hard to stay updated with the industry technology, therefore we need our employees to be able to learn new computer systems quickly
• Time is money – at Spring EQ we recognize the importance of working with a sense of urgency, we need people who can fit in to a fast-paced environment
• Spring EQ values integrity – we are looking for candidates who recognize the importance of respect, honesty and fairness, and demonstrate these things in their everyday lives

Benefits 

• 401k Company Match
• Commuter Benefits
• Company Holidays
• Dental Insurance
• Dependent Care Plan
• Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Paid Time Off Plan
• Vision Insurance

Spring EQ is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.