Senior Software Engineer - Growth Experience

January 1

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $189k - $214k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Earnest is a financial technology company specializing in refinancing and consolidating student loans. It offers options to help clients reduce their interest rates and tailor loan payments to fit their budgets, without any credit impact. The company focuses on client satisfaction, providing in-house support and flexible refinancing solutions. Earnest's services include refinancing student loans, Parent PLUS refinancing, and personal loans, with the aim of making higher education more affordable and manageable for students and their families. Known for transparent practices and competitive rates, Earnest has refinanced over $19. 6 billion in student loans.

Consumer Lending • Financial Technology • Mission Driven • Value driven

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

👥 B2C

📋 Description

Drive the end-to-end implementation of Growth-focused A/B tests and experiments to optimize the user journey, increase conversion rates, and enhance customer retention. • Instrument code to fire analytics events (e.g., Amplitude) and work closely with Product and Data teams to ensure proper instrumentation, enabling high-quality data for decision-making. • Build and maintain performance-focused front-end and back-end features, prioritizing SEO, accessibility, and load times on our public-facing website. • Conduct code reviews and ensure high standards of code quality and maintainability across the team. • Rapidly experiment and develop new features to enhance user engagement, support business goals, and improve product metrics. • Support the Marketing team by developing self-service features, assisting with new page layouts, and creating additional CMS blocks. • Collaborate on the continuous improvement of our experimentation framework, enhancing automation, tracking accuracy, and reporting processes. • Troubleshoot and optimize code and processes to reduce friction points in the product funnel and increase the velocity of experimentation.

🎯 Requirements

A strong background in full-stack development, ideally within Growth or Product Engineering. • Proven experience with A/B testing tools (such as Optimizely, Google Optimize, or similar) and analytics platforms (like Google Analytics, Amplitude, or Mixpanel). • Skilled in JavaScript, React, and Node.js (or comparable front- and back-end frameworks), with a focus on performance and scalability. • Experience with SQL or similar querying languages, enabling you to pull and analyze data directly. • Proficient in Typescript, enabling you to build safer and more reliable code. • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in fast-paced environments where iterative improvements and rapid testing cycles are essential. • Willingness to travel to the Oakland office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies.

🏖️ Benefits

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