About the position
As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. We're on a mission to reinvent the financial system and make it work for people. We are looking for passionate and resourceful engineers to join our backend teams. You will have the opportunity to make an impact with your technical contributions and how people think about money. Our current team is composed mainly of experienced senior engineers who are excellent mentors. Many have worked in elite tech giants such as Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Uber, Dropbox, etc. As a Senior Staff Engineer at EarnIn, you will work cross-functionally with various teams. You will be able to contribute to the design and development of our services and new and legacy products. Come make a difference with us and have fun doing it!
Responsibilities
- Drive the design & implementation of new features - break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code.
- Make a meaningful impact in the lives of our community members.
- Design & deliver robust microservice integrations via REST/gRPC APIs using various communication, consistency, and coordination strategies.
- Collaborate with and mentor other senior engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews.
- Contribute to defining technical direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
- Estimate and manage team project timelines and risks.
- Care passionately about producing high-quality designs and code.
- Participate in hiring and onboarding for new team members.
- Lead cross-team engineering initiatives.
Requirements
- 12+ years of development experience in backend or full-stack software development, including IC Leadership experience.
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience.
- Expertise in trade-off analysis for distributed architectures.
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language and the ability to understand more than one - we currently work in C# and Kotlin.
- Familiarity with clean architecture approach.
- Experience with various data storages, including relational and document databases.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Being self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits
