Senior Software Engineer

Software Development
USA

NinjaHoldings

October 20, 2022
full_time

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for building new systems, enhancing and refactoring existing systems, integrating with external systems, and performance projects. This person will work with the existing team of developers, QA and Product Managers to design and implement features, have input on roadmaps and bring prior experience to ensure a world class product. You will work closely with your technical lead to shape the overall Engineering vision and roadmap.

This person has built systems from the ground up and had to deal with bad design assumptions and scaling issues. The right candidate has developed good design instincts through a mix of seeing ‘what not to do’ as well as being a ‘student’ of good design.

You’ll be part of a team that works in one of the following areas.

  • Customer Communication – how we communicate with our customers & potential customers. I.e. email, sms, snail mail
  • Identity – managing customer and potential customer information
  • Decisions – Decision systems for bidding on marketing leads and automatically making underwriting decisions.
  • Portfolio Management –  Systems responsible for managing the life cycle of our lending and banking products such as integrations to external payment processing systems.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Design, develop or modify software and/or software systems and also taking the service architecture into consideration
  • Analyze user needs to determine how software should be built or if existing software should be modified
  • Translate business requirements and specifications into usable and scalable software
  • Lead design and code reviews
  • Participate in discussions about the team’s future vision and strategy
What We Are Looking For:
  • 5+ years of professional experience as a senior software engineer for non-trivial web applications
  • 5+ years of Ruby on Rails
  • 3+ years experience working with React, Redux, and Redux Saga
  • Experience working directly with UI/UX designers and understands the basics of UI/UX.
  • Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions.
  • Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables
  • Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions
  • Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
Additional Pluses, but not requirements:
  • Extensive experience using SQL to investigate non-trivial issues or to create complex reporting
  • Prior FinTech experience

Benefits:

  • Material equity grant
  • Health and Wellness stipend
  • Cell phone stipend
  • WFH equipment grant
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Casual dress policy
  • Fun, fast-paced work environment
  • Dynamic start-up culture
  • Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
  • Equal opportunity employer

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