AVP Software Engineering Lead

About Us

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

Role Title

AVP Software Engineering Lead - L10 (Level 10)

Organizational Overview

This role sits within Synchrony's Front-End Engineering organization. As AI dissolves the traditional boundaries between front-end, back-end, and platform engineering, this organization is evolving beyond its front-end anchor. Engineers increasingly work fluidly across the full stack.

Role Summary/Purpose

You'll shape the future of payments by handling billions of transactions daily. You will define what Software Engineering means here—and how it can affect the entire industry, creating intuitive online applications and defining FinTech standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle.
• Coach and mentor junior talent, including pair-programming and reviewing AI-generated code with engineering judgment.
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects to create amazing apps.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) on the team—setting prompt patterns and following Synchrony's guidance for data handling in regulated financial services contexts.

Tech Stack & Skills

We are looking for professionals with strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux, CSS, Cypress, or RTL. Experience using AI coding assistants is mandatory. You should have familiarity with AI-native concepts like RAG patterns and agent orchestration.