Staff Software Engineer, Lending Products

Parafin

Staff Software Engineer leading backend platforms and infrastructure for Parafin's lending products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers in a hybrid office environment.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $265,000 - $330,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the technical design and evolution of the platforms, frameworks, and shared infrastructure that power all of Parafin's lending products.
Partner with engineers on teams that own specific lending verticals to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that enable them to move quickly.
Set technical direction through engineering design docs, architecture reviews, and design discussions, aligning the team on priorities and tradeoffs.
Identify, prioritize, and own infrastructure improvements that accelerate product development and maintain high levels of system reliability.
Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code review, and improving team processes and reliability practices.
Mentor other engineers, drive improvements to team processes and code quality, and foster a culture of craft and ownership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience working in a backend engineering role, ideally in a platform or product-focused environment.
You care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft.
You have experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects and can make sound tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and time to value.
You take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions.
You have strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working across Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity grant
Medical, dental & vision insurance
Work from home flexibility
Unlimited PTO
Commuter benefits
Free lunches
Paid parental leave
401(k)
Employee assistance program

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringtechnical designarchitecture reviewscode reviewsystem reliabilityinfrastructure improvementssoftware qualitycross-functional project leadershipabstraction design

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationinitiativeproblem-solvingteam processes improvementcraftsmanshipownership