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OneMain Financial · 3 months ago

Associate Director Staff Engineer - Software

OneMain Financial is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. The Associate Director Staff Engineer - Software role involves leading the delivery of decisioning platforms, ensuring high-quality implementation, and mentoring engineering teams while driving innovation in decision automation. This position requires strong technical expertise and collaboration with business stakeholders to align on priorities and drive execution.

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Responsibilities

Own delivery of decisioning platforms end-to-end, ensuring on-time, high-quality implementation of core components of Decisioning infrastructure that power credit, pricing, and risk strategies
Build and deliver reusable decisioning components for rule authoring, versioning, simulation, testing, and observability, ensuring solutions are scalable, reusable, and explainable
Lead the rollout of a cloud-native, modular decisioning platform using Drools, Java, and Spring Boot, modernizing legacy mainframe-driven logic into centralized, API-driven services
Establish and manage delivery frameworks, governance processes, and best practices for business rule lifecycle, from harvesting through production deployment
Build and enforce robust automation and testing frameworks to guarantee reliability and regression safety across decisioning services
Drive operational excellence by integrating telemetry, monitoring, and automated feedback loops into the platform, ensuring proactive detection of issues and continuous optimization of rule effectiveness
Mentor engineering teams and provide hands-on leadership to ensure execution quality, unblock delivery challenges, and maintain alignment to architectural vision
Present progress, risks, and delivery roadmaps to senior leadership, ensuring visibility, accountability, and alignment across business and technology stakeholders
Innovate with GenAI-powered decisioning capabilities, including natural language rule authoring and automated rule documentation, to accelerate delivery cycles and business usability
Familiarity with observability and monitoring frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus) and building automated regression testing pipelines
Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams and collaborating closely with business stakeholders to align on priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive execution
Knowledge of GenAI applications in decision automation, particularly natural-language rule authoring and AI-assisted rule validation
Ability to balance architectural vision with delivery discipline, ensuring solutions are delivered with quality, speed, and measurable business impact

Qualification

JavaAWSSpring BootREST APIsAgile software developmentCloud computingDistributed systemsIBM ODMKubernetesDockerCommunicationsCritical thinkingMentoringCollaborationProblem solving

Required

6 – 8 Years of software engineering experience
Experience managing/maintaining distributed systems
Conversant in many technologies and languages, able to learn new technologies quickly
Proactively applies industry leading technology trends, best practices, design principles and patterns, and methods including Agile software development, iterative delivery, and cloud computing
Experience and proficiency with cloud platforms and patterns, preferably AWS
Uses critical thinking to reach conclusions and analytical thinking for problem solving in support of achieving desired outcomes
Applies enthusiasm for continuous learning to improve results and shares with others
BS degree in a computer related field
Excellent communications
Core Tech: Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Maven
Rule Engines: IBM ODM, Drools, Kogito, BPMN, JBPM
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure (preferred), Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift
Data & Format Handling: XML, JSON
Monitoring & Testing: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Automation Tools: Customized rule development & testing platforms, synthetic data generators, regression suites
Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro

Preferred

Cloud Platforms: Azure (preferred)

Benefits

Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
Up to 4% matching 401(k)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
Tuition reimbursement
Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)
Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)
Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)

Company

OneMain Financial

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OneMain Financial has been offering responsible and transparent loans for over 100 years.

H1B Sponsorship

OneMain Financial has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.9B
2025-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $600M
2024-11-04Post Ipo Debt· $900M
2018-01-04Post Ipo Secondary· $1.4B

Leadership Team

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Doug Shulman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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