Partner Engineer, Scaled Support
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Us:
At Parafin were on a mission to grow small businesses.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy but traditional banks often dont have their backs. We build tech that makes it simple for small businesses to access the financial tools they need through the platforms they already sell on.
We partner with companies like DoorDash Amazon Worldpay and Mindbody to offer fast and flexible funding spend management and savings tools to their small business users via a simple integration. Parafin takes on all the complexity of capital markets underwriting servicing compliance and customer service for our partners.
Were a tight-knit team of innovators hailing from Stripe Square Plaid Coinbase Robinhood CERN and more all united by a passion for building tools that help small businesses succeed. Parafin is backed by prominent venture capitalists including GIC Notable Capital Redpoint Ventures Ribbit Capital and Thrive Capital. Parafin is a Series C company and we have raised more than $194M in equity and $340M in debt facilities.
Join us in creating a future where every small business has the financial tools they need.
Were expanding our Partner Engineering team and looking for a Partner Engineer to own the technical experience of our partners after they go live. This is the person who keeps our live integrations healthy resolves the hardest post-launch technical issues andmost importantlybuilds the tooling telemetry and playbooks that let us support a fast-growing base of partners without scaling headcount one-for-one.
Its a partly partner-facing role that blends hands-on debugging with system-building. Youll work shoulder-to-shoulder with partners technical teams and with our own Product and Platform engineers moving us from reactive one-off firefighting toward a scalable self-serve best-in-class support model. Youll also be a direct line into Parafins product direction: the recurring issues and partner feedback you surface will shape what we build next.
This role reports to the Partner Engineering Manager. Were hiring across a range of levelsfrom strong mid-level engineers to senior engineers who have built and scaled support functions before.
Join us and help drive Parafins growth.
Own the health of our live integrations
Serve as the ongoing technical point of contact for our partners engineering teams once theyre live.
Proactively monitor integration health feature adoption and stability post-launchcatching issues before partners do.
Instrument telemetry logs and dashboards to observe partner integrations at scale (webhook delivery disbursement and repayment flows offer eligibility reconciliation).
Debug and resolve the hardest technical problems
Own escalations end-to-end: reproduce root-cause and drive resolution of integration issues working across Parafins codebase (React Scala Python) and partner systems.
Read logs write queries and reproduce issues via API calls to isolate whether a problem lives in our platform the partners implementation or the data in between.
Partner with Product and Platform engineering to ship durable fixes not just workarounds.
Build a sustainable scaled support function
Design the tooling automation and runbooks that turn repeatable integration patterns into self-serve resolutionso we can support the next 10 partners without 10x the effort.
Own our technical documentation standards and be the flag-bearer for our public-facing developer docs.
Identify recurring issue themes and eliminate their root causes through better tooling docs or product changes.
Close the loop with Product and Platform
Translate real-world partner needs into prioritized feedback and improvements to our platform APIs and partner-facing assets.
Advocate for partners internally while diplomatically steering requests toward scalable supportable solutions.
3 years in a client-facing technical rolepost-sales / solutions engineering technical partner support developer support engineering or technical account management. Senior candidates who have stood up or scaled a technical support function are especially encouraged to apply.
An engineering background with fluency in one or more languages (e.g. Python JavaScript/TypeScript Java Scala). Youre comfortable exploring and navigating a production codebaseours is primarily React Scala and Python.
Strong hands-on debugging instincts: you can read logs write SQL inspect data pipelines and reproduce issues with API calls to isolate the root cause.
Proficiency with integration technologiesREST APIs webhooks SDKs data pipelines and embeddable UI components.
Excellent communication skills: you can explain complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders up to and including executives.
Strong partner-focused problem-solving. You have a track record of relentlessly raising the bar for partner experience.
A bias toward leverage: you instinctively turn one-off fixes into documentation tooling and repeatable process.
Ability to thrive in an ambiguous fast-paced environment adapting quickly as requirements and priorities evolve.
Genuine passion for helping small businesses grow and succeed.
Experience in fintech payments lending or another money-movement domainfamiliarity with concepts like ledgering and reconciliation is a plus.
Familiarity with SQL and with monitoring/observability tooling (dashboards logging alerting).
Knowledge of industry best practices for integration design and technical scoping.
Experience building or improving developer-facing documentation and self-serve support.
Base salary range: $180k - $220k
Equity grant
Medical dental & vision insurance
Unlimited PTO
Commuter benefits
Free lunches
Paid parental leave
401(k)
Employee assistance program
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please contact us.
Required Experience:
IC