Head Of Software Development Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Braviant Holdings is a leading provider of tech-enabled consumer credit products, and they are seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own their full-stack application development function. The role involves serving as the primary software architect and engineering manager for a team, overseeing the consumer lending platform's full lifecycle, and leading the transition to an AI-native development model.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as Braviant’s primary software architect — owning system design, technology choices, and engineering standards across all application layers.
• Assess the current architecture (30+ microservices, Java/Spring Boot back end, Angular front end, AWS) and develop a pragmatic rationalization roadmap to reduce complexity and improve deployability.
• Stay close to the codebase: lead architecture reviews, conduct meaningful code reviews, and prototype solutions to de-risk key technical decisions.
• Own high-availability design for loan origination, payment processing, and transaction workflows, targeting 99.9%+ uptime SLAs.
• Define and evolve CI/CD pipeline strategy, release practices, and engineering quality standards.
• Lead the transition to an AI-native development model — embedding AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, agentic coding frameworks) into how the team designs, builds, tests, and ships software every day.
• Partner with the Head of AI & Automation to identify where AI-generated code, automated testing, and LLM-powered tooling can meaningfully accelerate delivery and reduce QA burden.
• Champion engineering practices that make AI tooling safe and auditable in a regulated consumer lending environment.
• Own end-to-end software development for consumer-facing and internal applications — from requirements through deployment and support.
• Manage the full stack: Angular front end, Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, SQS, CloudWatch, CodeBuild), and database layers.
• Own the QA function within the engineering team; define the right balance of automated testing, manual QA, and release gates.
• Champion security-by-design and compliance standards appropriate to a consumer lending environment (PCI, state lending regulations, CFPB-related requirements).
• Lead, develop, and retain a team of 6–8 full-stack engineers and QA professionals; set performance standards, provide mentorship, and build a culture of craftsmanship and accountability.
• Hire and grow the Addison-based engineering team — you will be the anchor for that office’s technical culture.
• Manage the engineering budget, including capex/opex planning, vendor relationships, and tooling decisions.
• Partner with business stakeholders and executive leadership to translate product and operational priorities into engineering plans; represent engineering at the leadership level.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in a senior engineering leadership role (Director, Head of Engineering, or equivalent).
• Deep full-stack background: strong Java/Spring Boot on the back end, experience with Angular or equivalent modern front-end frameworks, and solid command of relational databases and API design (REST, microservices, MVC).
• Proven software architect — you have designed production systems, made technology bets that paid off, and course-corrected ones that didn’t.
• Experience rationalizing or simplifying over-engineered architectures: you can diagnose why a system became complex, build stakeholder alignment around a simplification plan, and execute it without breaking production.
• AWS cloud infrastructure ownership: EC2, S3, SQS, CloudWatch, CodeBuild, and related services — configuration, architecture, and operations.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership at production scale; strong branching, review, and release practices using GitHub, Bitbucket, or equivalent.
• Experience with high-availability, distributed systems in a real-time transaction processing environment.
• Engineering budget ownership: capex/opex planning, vendor management, and resource allocation.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain engineering talent in a competitive market.
• Comfortable in a lean, startup-style environment with heavy workloads, competing priorities, and ambiguity — this is not a role for someone who needs a large support structure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s a plus.
Preferred:
• Hands-on experience building with AI-native development tools or frameworks (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, agentic coding pipelines, LLM-assisted test generation).
• Experience in consumer lending, fintech, payments, or another regulated financial services technology environment.
• Familiarity with MCP integrations, agentic AI architectures, or building internal developer productivity platforms.
• Formal software architecture or cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect).
Company:
A leading provider of tech-enabled credit products and services for underbanked consumers Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.