Parafin

Staff Software Engineer, Lending Products

Parafin

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $265,000 - $330,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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

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

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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