Staff Software Engineer

Title: Staff Software Engineer

Duties: 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 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 Earnests DevOps culture and participate in
rotating on-call support for production applications.

Position is 100% remote. Salary: $207585 peryear.

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: (1) building highly distributed microservices; (2) SQL
databases including PostgreSQL and caching performance monitoring and scalability; (3) server-
side technologies including Typescript and Javascript; and (4) 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.

This notice is subject to Earnest LLCs employee referral program.

Interested candidates can apply online at or send a resume to
and reference job code 058.

Required Experience:

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