Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
Perpay
About the Role:
We’re searching for an experienced and passionate software engineer to join Perpay and contribute to our culture of technical excellence. You will lead large-scale projects from start-to-finish, working across multiple teams (analytics, commerce, product, design, operations) while providing guidance to junior-level engineers. As we’re a growing engineering team, you’ll also have the opportunity to make an impact on our tech and our team. Given our people-first approach, your elevated level of contribution will strengthen our culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning.
As a leader of Perpay’s engineering team, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders ranging from entry-level contributors to senior-level executives. This opportunity is both unique and pivotal, as it offers the chance to provide leadership to a rapidly growing team. This position will report directly to the CTO.
Our tech stack: Javascript, React, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and more
Our greatest strength is our people and we’d love for you to be one of them!
Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation of large scale features for our customers and our internal finance, operations, and risk teams
- Develop technical requirements alongside our Product team
- Solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems with distributed architectures and scaling systems
- Make data and metrics-driven decisions
- Execute on the full lifecycle of new features with fellow engineers
- Continue to improve how we build, test, and deliver software
- Collaborate with our stakeholders to design and implement new credit products, as well as new features for our existing platform
What You'll Bring:
- 5+ years of experience building applications at scale in at least one popular programming language (Python, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
- 2+ years of experience with some form of web framework (Django, Rails, etc.)
- Experience with a modern front-end framework, such as React, Vue, or Angular
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams
- Experience working on consumer-facing products and demonstrating empathy for end-users
- Significant experience with operating large scale services with AWS,Docker, and/or Kubernetes
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain highly technical subject matter to a nontechnical audience
- Proven history of cross-functional collaboration on mission-critical projects
- A strong curiosity in industry trends
- The ability to design, analyze, and debug distributed systems and services
- A strong focus on writing and deploying clear, readable, testable code
Hey, we know not everybody checks all the boxes, so if you’re interested, please apply because you could be just what we’re looking for!
Retirement & Stock Options Benefits
- 401k with company contribution
- Company Equity
Accessibility
- Accessible Building
- Accessible Work Environment
Perks & Discounts
- Casual Dress
- Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Lunch Provided
- Offsite Company Events
- Snacks Provided
Health & Wellness
- Dental Insurance
- FSA
- Gym Reimbursement/Discounts
- Health Insurance
- Vision Insurance
Parental Benefits
- Family Medical Leave
- Parental Leave
PTO/Flexibility
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Paid Holidays
- Unlimited PTO
Other
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
What’s unique about the Perpay brand?
Perpay’s mission is to provide consumers with an easy way to make purchases, pay over time and build credit. It is dedicated to building simple, transparent and inclusive financial products that improve the lives of its customers.
Perpay is working to solve broad issues of financial access and inclusion that affect a large number of people through the pathways of microlending, consumer finance and e-commerce. Its focus is purely on its customers.
What is the team dynamic within the office?
As a high-growth company, Perpay fosters collaboration whenever possible. It does so by keeping its organizational structure cross-disciplinary and outcome-oriented. Anyone can have a conversation or introduce an idea at any time — there are no silos.
Perpay also works to foster an entrepreneurial spirit at the individual level. First and foremost, it’s a product-focused company, and believes everyone on the team is a product contributor. Perpay is building tools that make an impact on so many people, and believes the best way to do that is to get input from every one of its team members — whether they’ve been on the team for three weeks or three years. Everyone’s perspective is important.
What qualities does Perpay look for in technical candidates?
While most of its systems and microservices are written in Python, the company prefers talented polyglots that have an insatiable will to learn and create. At Perpay, they’re not afraid of trying new things and are more concerned with finding great problem solvers that will find the right tools for the job.
The Perpay team is most interested in a candidate’s mentality and experience — especially if it is one of delivering solutions that are well designed, reliable and highly scalable. They work in a fast-paced startup environment where efficiency and iterative approaches are critical. This makes it extremely important to find candidates who communicate well and understand the theory, design patterns and implementation details that go into delivering a solution.
How about candidates overall?
Perpay is looking for people who are naturally curious, self-directed and interested in self-improvement. Everyone on the team is eager to learn, excited about what they're working on and is doing their own research about the industry — like reading up on consumer credit and the greater microlending environment.
One thing it values about its team is diversity of experience. Perpay has built a team with all kinds of different backgrounds: finance, engineering, operations, non-profit and even chemistry.
Additionally, because of the work it does, candidates need to have a sense of empathy. A team member can be an amazing problem solver, but in order to be a good fit they need to keep a human element to everything they do. Data can certainly help find an answer, but empathy will often lead to deeper insights.
