Key skills
Backend developmentMicroservices architectureKotlinC#Trade-off analysisData storageCommunication skillsSelf-motivatedMentoringTeam collaborationCgRPCLeadershipCommunication
About this role
EarnIn is a pioneering company in earned wage access, dedicated to providing financial flexibility to individuals living paycheck to paycheck. They are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Early Bets team, where the role involves designing and developing services, mentoring other engineers, and contributing to technical direction.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the design & implementation of new features and/or re-architect existing systems - break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code
- Make a meaningful impact on the lives of our community members
- Design & deliver robust microservice integrations via REST/gRPC APIs using various communication, consistency, and coordination strategies
- Collaborate 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:
- 8+ 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 Kotlin and C#
- Proficient in running multiple critical tech initiatives in parallel
- Familiarity with the clean architecture approach
- Experience with various data storage, including relational and document databases
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Being self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision