Staff Software Engineer

Earnest is a company that empowers professionals to make confident financial decisions. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and execution for engineering teams, develop scalable lending ecosystems, and ensure a frictionless user experience for their financial products.

Responsibilities:

• The Staff Software Engineer (Multiple Positions Open) at Earnest LLC in Oakland, CA will drive the technical strategy and execution for our engineering teams
• Lead the development of a scalable, high-performance lending ecosystem from customer onboarding to checkout
• Architect and build customer-centric financial products, ensuring a frictionless and optimized user experience and orchestrating large-scale financial transactions
• Define and execute the technical vision and best practices for a high-performing engineering team. Lead architectural decisions to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the lending platform
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Business teams to align technology with strategic goals. Design, build, and maintain customer-facing lending applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker
• Develop and optimize high-quality, testable code, implementing unit and integration tests with Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Sequelize
• Ensure performance, security, and scalability through best-in-class software engineering practices
• Identify and resolve defects through debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis, tracing, and FullStory session replays
• Oversee code deployment to Staging and Production environments
• Partner with Quality Engineers to address issues found in testing and improve automated testing coverage
• Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies. Break down product requirements into engineering deliverables in Jira
• Review and provide critical feedback on Product Requirements Documents, Epics, and User Stories, influencing the technical and business roadmap
• Recommend alternative technical solutions to optimize delivery speed, enhance customer experience, and reduce costs
• Maintain technical documentation
• Contribute to Earnest’s DevOps culture and participate in rotating on-call support for production applications

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field, plus 3 years of software development experience
• The 3 years of experience must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: building highly distributed micro services; SQL databases, including PostgreSQL, and caching, performance, monitoring, and scalability; server-side technologies, including Node.js, Typescript, and Javascript; client-side technologies, including React Native and Angular
• Must include two years of experience with: AWS or similar cloud-based infrastructure; and leading the architecture, design, development, and deployment of large-scale projects