Staff Software Engineer

Earnest

5h•Remote

About The Position

Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together. Earnest LLC – Oakland, CA Title: Staff Software Engineer Duties: 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. Position is 100% remote.

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; and
Working with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins and Github Actions.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical direction of engineering teams to revolutionize consumer lending.
Automate the loan approval process and orchestrate large-scale financial transactions.
Build customer-facing software products using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
Ensure high code quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing with Mocha, Chai, and Sinon.
Document technical designs using Confluence, employing proven software design principles and diagrams.
Troubleshoot defects using debugging, log analysis via Splunk, and tools like FullStory for user session replay.
Drive the architectural direction, set technical standards, and lead agile processes, including daily standups, sprint reviews, and planning sessions.
Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to refine product requirements in JIRA, provide technical feedback, and recommend solutions that optimize speed, customer experience, and cost savings.
Mentor engineers, providing feedback through GitHub and pair programming.
Offer operational support by participating in on-call rotations to respond to system alerts using tools such as Splunk, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch.