Principal Software Engineer for Big Data

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors. Our mission is to transform the banking system to make credit more affordable and investing more rewarding and help people achieve their financial goals. We operate at a lower cost than traditional banks and pass the savings on to borrowers in the form of lower rates and to investors in the form of attractive risk adjusted returns.

Lending Club reinvented the way consumers borrow, now we are reinventing the way we do data, and we are looking for strong Senior and Principal Engineers to help us make it happen! Our Big Data Solutions group is responsible for the strategic architecture, engineering and deployment of our Big Data ecosystem; including a large initiative to move our entire Big Data platform to AWS while enhancing it with new real-time, analytical and machine learning capabilities to power every aspect of our business. If you have the drive to take your software engineering career to the next level, while gaining practical, hands-on experience with some of the most cutting-edge technologies in the computer engineering and data space, and you meet most of the qualifications below – We want to hear from you!

* Expert with object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns * High bar for operational excellence; ability to quickly lead team through issues resolution, root cause analysis and successfully prioritize corrective action. * Passion for architecting and leading implementation of resilient, distributed software platforms and large-scale data infrastructures * Desire to learn about, evaluate and appropriately drive team adoption of new technologies and best practices * Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of continuous learning; take an active role improving the overall potential of the group * Successful track record of engineering Big Data solutions with technologies like Hadoop, Hive & Spark * Expertise delivering solutions on AWS or other large scale cloud platforms * 3+ years Java development experience * Team player with drive to grow others around them as much as themselves * Experience around real-time data ingestion and/or machine-learning a plus