Senior Software Engineer

Job Brief:

The business is looking for a Software Engineer to join our geographically dispersed team as an early hire in our fast growing startup. If you are excited about building scalable, highly available systems then this is the right role for you. We are primarily based in Richmond, VA and San Francisco, CA, however we are open to considering remote candidates that would be open to travel to our offices on occasions.

So, what does a typical day look like for a Software Engineer here?
You will be solving some pretty interesting problems, without bureaucratic obstacles.
Work cross functionally with our Product, Design, Credit, Growth and Data Science teams to understand customer needs and how to design and build the most appropriate features or systems that impact the lives of millions of consumers. They're all great people to work with. Trust me!
You'd also spend some time in the design and development across our web stack and the opportunity to work on or close to our Web, Cloud Platform, Data and Machine Learning teams.
Be an agent of technological change learning and evaluating new technologies and making decisions on their adoption
Time permitting, a little online socializing with your peers.

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What qualities do we look for?
You have a few to multiple years of professional experience building software. Bonus points if you have excelled at a small, high growth startup or been working in the fintech space or an equivalent highly regulated industry.
You have an intuitive understanding of web frameworks, APIs, cloud infrastructure, information security, and databases, and have worked with multiple programming languages.
You have a passion for making an impact through technology while building consumer products that make a difference to the lives of traditionally under served customers.
You are both curious by nature and an impressively quick learner.
You are unfazed by unfamiliar codebases and enjoy figuring complex things out on your own.
You can wear multiple hats and work across the stack, both collaboratively and independently.
You get Super Bonus points for:
Solid experience with Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, or equivalent.
Proven experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent is a big plus.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and event streaming solutions.
Familiarity with Web Frameworks like React/JS or equivalent is a nice to have.
Previous exposure to transaction processing systems payments, billing, commerce, order management etc.
Solid experience with data models and sensitive data handling is highly desirable.
Deep knowledge of performance tuning, measurement and experimentation systems

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