Earnest

Staff Software Engineer

Earnest

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $207,585 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AngularAWSChaiCloudDockerJavaScriptMicroservicesMochaNode.jsPostgresReactReact NativeReduxSQLTypeScript

About the role

  • Drive the technical strategy and execution for engineering teams.
  • Lead the development of a scalable, high-performance lending ecosystem from customer onboarding to checkout.
  • Architect and build customer-centric financial products, ensuring a frictionless and optimized user experience and orchestrating large-scale financial transactions.
  • Define and execute the technical vision and best practices for a high-performing engineering team.
  • Lead architectural decisions to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the lending platform.
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, and Business teams to align technology with strategic goals.
  • Design, build, and maintain customer-facing lending applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
  • Develop and optimize high-quality, testable code, implementing unit and integration tests with Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Sequelize.
  • Ensure performance, security, and scalability through best-in-class software engineering practices.
  • Identify and resolve defects through debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis, tracing, and FullStory session replays.
  • Oversee code deployment to Staging and Production environments.
  • Partner with Quality Engineers to address issues found in testing and improve automated testing coverage.
  • Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies. Break down product requirements into engineering deliverables in Jira.
  • Review and provide critical feedback on Product Requirements Documents, Epics, and User Stories, influencing the technical and business roadmap.
  • Recommend alternative technical solutions to optimize delivery speed, enhance customer experience, and reduce costs.
  • Maintain technical documentation.
  • Contribute to Earnest’s DevOps culture and participate in rotating on-call support for production applications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field, plus 3 years of software development experience.
  • The 3 years of experience must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: (1) building highly distributed microservices; (2) SQL databases, including PostgreSQL, and caching performance, monitoring, and scalability; (3) server-side technologies, including Node.js, Typescript, and Javascript; and (4) 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Node.jsTypeScriptReactReduxAngularSequelizePostgreSQLMochaChaiSinon
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcritical feedbacktechnical visionstrategic alignmentAgile methodologydocumentationcustomer-centric
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Software Engineering