## About the role
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.
## 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.
## Contact information
This notice is subject to Earnest LLC's employee referral program.
Interested candidates can online at www.earnest.com/careers 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.