This position is being advertised on behalf of a partner organization. Employment terms, benefits, and conditions may vary and are subject to the policies of the hiring company. Details on the specific requirements and conditions for this role will be provided during the recruitment process.

This is a remote role open to candidates located anywhere in the United States.

The company

Fora Financial builds technology that helps small business owners access capital and manage their businesses with confidence. Our platform supports entrepreneurs through critical stages of growth, from funding to long-term financial management. The systems we build directly affect real businesses, real money movement, and long-term customer trust.

The Engineering team at Fora Financial builds and operates the core systems that power our lending platform. Engineers partner closely with product, operations, finance, collections, and legal teams to deliver reliable, auditable, and scalable solutions in a highly regulated environment.

We're looking for a Technical Lead for the Servicing domain team, where you will guide execution and technical direction for a team building systems that manage loans after approval. This is a people-first leadership role that combines hands-on technical ownership, architectural decision-making, and mentorship, with a strong focus on reliability, correctness, and delivery.

The team and your role

The Servicing domain owns the systems and workflows that manage the post-approval loan lifecycle, including:

• Loan lifecycle management from funding through payoff, delinquency, collections, and charge-off
• Payments and money movement, including ACH pulls, returns, retries, schedules, and payment application
• Financial ledgers and reconciliation, covering balances, transaction history, and audit trails
• Contracts and legal workflows, including contract generation, e-signatures, amendments, and enforcement
• Collections and post-charge-off recoveries
• Internal servicing tools and customer-facing portals used by Operations, Finance, Legal, and Support

This role sits at the heart of Fora’s platform. You will lead systems where accuracy, reliability, and auditability are critical, and where engineering decisions directly affect customer trust and financial outcomes.

You will partner closely with an Engineering Manager to balance delivery, technical excellence, and team growth.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day execution of the Servicing engineering team, facilitating standups, clarifying priorities, and ensuring work is well scoped and sequenced
• Determine, delegate, and sequence work across the team, balancing business priorities, technical dependencies, delivery risk, and individual development
• Act as the technical owner for critical backend systems, with responsibility for reliability and correctness
• Drive architecture and system design decisions for complex, stateful, data-sensitive systems
• Review code and technical designs regularly, guiding engineers toward scalable, maintainable solutions
• Partner closely with product managers and business stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Collections, Legal, and Underwriting
• Translate business, operational, and regulatory requirements into clear and actionable technical designs
• Establish and evolve standards for observability, auditability, and incident response
• Lead investigations into complex production issues and drive improvements that reduce long-term risk

Tech stack snapshot

• Backend: .NET (C#), .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, but open to other languages as well (Java, Go, Rust, Ruby...)
• Frontend: Angular (TypeScript), React
• Data: SQL Server, Entity Framework, Snowflake
• Cloud and infrastructure: Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Gateway
• Dev tooling: Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Git
• Architecture: REST APIs, microservices
• AI-powered development tools: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT

We welcome candidates with strong backend experience in similar technologies who are excited to work in a .NET environment.

What you bring:

• End-to-end ownership and accountability for complex backend systems
• Proven technical execution leadership through delegation, sequencing, and code review
• Strong systems thinking in stateful, data-sensitive domains
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product and business partners
• A people-first approach to coaching and mentorship that raises the technical bar across the team
• A growth mindset, with curiosity about better tools, practices, and ways of working