Staff Software Engineer

Earnest LLC – Oakland, CA

Title: Staff Software Engineer

Duties:

• 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.
• Position is 100% remote. Salary: $207,585 per year.

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.

This notice is subject to Earnest LLC's employee referral program.

Interested candidates can online at www.earnest.com/careers [earnest.com] or send a resume to [email protected] and reference job code 058. Contact Chayna Eno at [email protected] if you have questions or need information about this application.