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Staff Software Engineer leading engineering teams at Earnest to revolutionize consumer lending. Building customer-facing software with modern technologies like Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
Responsibilities:
- The Staff Software Engineer at Earnest in Oakland, CA will lead the technical direction of engineering teams to revolutionize consumer lending, automating the loan approval process and orchestrating large-scale financial transactions.
- This role involves building customer-facing software products using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker, while ensuring high code quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing with Mocha, Chai, and Sinon.
- The Staff Software Engineer will document technical designs using Confluence, employing proven software design principles and diagrams, and troubleshoot defects using debugging, log analysis via Splunk, and tools like FullStory for user session replay.
- This position also drives the architectural direction, sets technical standards, and leads agile processes, including daily standups, sprint reviews, and planning sessions.
- Collaboration with Product Managers and Engineers is essential to refine product requirements in JIRA, provide technical feedback, and recommend solutions that optimize speed, customer experience, and cost savings.
- Additionally, the role includes mentoring engineers, providing feedback through GitHub and pair programming, and offering operational support by participating in on-call rotations to respond to system alerts using tools such as Splunk, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field, plus 3 years of experience as a software developer or related occupation
- The 3 years of experience must include 2 years of experience with each of the following:
- Server-side concepts, including micro-services, databases, caching, performance, monitoring, and scalability;
- NodeJS;
- TypeScript and JavaScript;
- Front end frameworks, including React or Angular;
- AWS or other cloud-based infrastructure;
- PostgreSQL;
- Docker and container services;
- Testing frameworks, including Mocha, Chai and Sinon;
- Working with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins and Github Actions.
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
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