Meritsoft – Software Lead

As Software Engineering Platform Lead, you own the Merit FINBOS platform, guiding architecture, delivery and team enablement. You collaborate with pre-sales, security and business units to build secure, scalable solutions for clients. You influence technical strategy and mentor engineers while driving agile processes. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-growing engineering function, with impact across product, architecture and operations. You shape the platform’s evolution to meet client needs and business goals.

• Own the Merit FINBOS platform application and its technical roadmap
• Collaborate with business units to deliver secure and scalable client solutions
• Engage with pre-sales and business leads to capture technical requirements
• Define and implement technical strategy with Engineering, Delivery and Security teams
• Select components based on sound practices and strategies
• Oversee strategy delivery and provide technical recommendations to the core team
• Own agile processes and productivity for the engineering team
• Lead and mentor technical teams

• 4–5+ years in leading software engineering teams
• Hands-on development experience in the Microsoft .NET stack
• Experience with VBscript and C++ in older tech stacks
• Strong knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server databases
• Experience with agile methodologies and delivering in multi-disciplinary, remote teams

• excellent written and verbal communication
• ability to balance multiple priorities and handle ambiguity
• leadership and mentoring
• .NET stack
• VBscript
• C++