Lead Software Engineer at Fundrise
$190,000–$250,000
Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-management engineering role leading a team responsible for the backend APIs powering authentication, investing, and account management across Fundrise's web and mobile investor applications. The position combines hands-on Java/Spring development with team leadership — code reviews, one-on-ones, architectural decisions, and cross-functional delivery. It suits an experienced engineer-manager comfortable owning production systems in a regulated financial environment.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $190,000–$250,000
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 670–2,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This role is titled 'Lead Software Engineer' with no explicit seniority level word in the title, hence the title states no level. However, the role is a people-management position (direct reports, 1:1s, team delivery ownership), which maps to 11-3021 Computer and Information Systems Managers. The alt SOC 15-1252 is noted because the JD emphasizes daily hands-on coding and the title is 'Lead Software Engineer' — the management vs. IC split is genuinely ambiguous.
The JD requires 3+ years of people-management experience (running 1:1s, owning team delivery) as a hard gate under Minimum Qualifications; this is a role-level requirement captured in the overall years minimum (8+ years overall) rather than a named technology skill.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience' — the 'or equivalent' clause means no formal degree is hard-gated, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The specific AWS services (ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, WAF) are all listed together under the same Minimum Qualifications bullet as examples of the required AWS experience; they are treated as hard gates.
Application security experience appears only under Preferred Qualifications and is therefore marked as preferred.
The posting states a strong preference for candidates in the Washington, D.C. metro area, but the caller has instructed that this be treated as a fully-remote, national-pool role; no metro is set.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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