Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Drive the technical strategy and implementation for our engineering teams.

• Lead the creation of a scalable, high-performance lending ecosystem from customer onboarding through to checkout.

• Architect and develop customer-focused financial products, ensuring an optimized user experience while managing large-scale financial transactions.

• Define and execute the technical vision and best practices for a high-performing engineering team, leading architectural decisions to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the lending platform.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Business teams to ensure technology aligns with strategic objectives. Design, build, and maintain customer-facing lending applications utilizing Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker.

• Develop and refine high-quality, testable code, implementing unit and integration tests using Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Sequelize.

• Ensure performance, security, and scalability through top-tier software engineering practices.

• Identify and troubleshoot defects using debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis, tracing, and FullStory session replays.

• Oversee code deployment to both Staging and Production environments.

• Collaborate with Quality Engineers to address testing issues and enhance automated testing coverage.

• Lead and engage in Agile ceremonies, breaking down product requirements into engineering deliverables in Jira.

• Review and provide valuable feedback on Product Requirements Documents, Epics, and User Stories, shaping the technical and business roadmap.

• Recommend alternative technical solutions to optimize delivery speed, improve customer experience, and reduce costs.

• Maintain technical documentation.

• Contribute to Earnest’s DevOps culture and participate in a rotating on-call support for production applications.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field, along with 3 years of software development experience.

• The 3 years of experience must encompass 3 years of experience with each of the following:

• building highly distributed microservices;

• SQL databases, including PostgreSQL, and caching, performance, monitoring, and scalability;

• server-side technologies, including Node.js, Typescript, and Javascript;

• client-side technologies, including React Native and Angular.

• Must include two years of experience with: AWS or similar cloud-based infrastructure; and leading the architecture, design, development, and deployment of large-scale projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans

• Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office

• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match

• Robust tuition reimbursement program

• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world

• Competitive days of annual PTO

• Competitive parental leave