Senior Staff Software Engineer - Repayments

February 21

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• Drive the evolution of our Repayments platform with a focus on extensibility, robustness and performance • Draft, review and refine technical specification documents. Participate in architectural reviews and closely collaborate with other tech leads in the Direct-To-Consumer department • Help create the engineering strategy for the Repayments Nexus group based on the broader engineering strategy and informed by the Repayments product strategy. Define the technical roadmap for the Repayments Nexus group • Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions • Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures. Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data • Take an active role in mentoring engineers, and the processes that support team growth and efficiency

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer • Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software • A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc • Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively • Business impact focus, pragmatic approach to delivering projects on time and safely • Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Risk, Analytics etc • Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus • Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers

Benefits

• Type of employment: Contract of Employment • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle • Generous time off policies • Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge • Learning & Development programs • Parental leave • Robust health benefits • Employee Resource & Community Groups • Creative tax benefits • Competitive sign-on bonus of up to 10% of base salary