Staff Software Engineer

Earnest

Staff Software Engineer driving technical strategy and execution at Earnest. Leading development of scalable financial products and customer-centric applications.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $207,585 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSChaiCloudDockerJavaScriptMochaNode.jsPostgresReactReact NativeReduxSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive the technical strategy and execution for our 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

What you’ll need

Bachelors 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:
building highly distributed micro services;
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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsTypeScriptReactReduxAngularSequelizePostgreSQLDockerMochaChai

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcritical feedbacktechnical visionstrategic alignmentAgile methodologydocumentationcustomer-centric

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Software Engineering