Staff Software Engineer, Nova Credit
$212.5-259.2k
For Canadian applicants the range is $189,231 - $230,818 CAD per year
Cross-border credit reporting
Be an early applicant
Cross-border credit reporting
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$212.5-259.2k
For Canadian applicants the range is $189,231 - $230,818 CAD per year
101-200 employees
Company mission
To inspire and facilitate the flow of human diversity, helping the world's moving population to arrive and thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups
- Deep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack
- A visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment
- Exceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production, define critical technical strategy that powers innovation at scale across our products and platform, and elevate our engineering organization's capability through mentorship and setting best practices
- OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK: We leverage Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS to bring our products to life
- YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS A RANGE OF PROJECTS
- Architecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile)
- Pioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers
- Shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform
- Defining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability
- IN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU'LL:
- Land your "new hire" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature
- Thoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy
- Quickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, understanding their strategic implications for engineering
- Build rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values
- IN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU'LL:
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity
- Actively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations)
- Forge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects
- Deepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement
- Develop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level
- IN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU'LL:
- Lead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals
- Influence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership
- Establish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform
- Become a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies
- Significantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen
Our take
For the 15 million new immigrants who arrive in the US each year, it’s crucial to have a working credit history. Without this, they’ll be unable to rent an apartment, apply for a credit card or in some cases even get a job. The issue is that their credit history won’t have travelled with them, so lenders in their new country won’t be able to verify their eligibility. Nova Credit's founders experienced this problem first-hand, as Esipov is a first-generation Russian immigrant.
Nova Credit imports financial histories to enable immigrants to set up lives in new countries, with their ‘Credit Passport’. This is a digital framework that connects an individual’s credit history information from one country into the country where they are currently residing.
Nova Credit is currently able to import credit history from 8 countries, its most recent addition being the UK in January 2023. Since being accepted to Y Combinator in 2016, the company has since raised considerable funding from major finance players such as HSBC. Nova Credit has grown its footprint significantly, covering more than 1 billion consumer credit profiles, with further expansion in sight.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$35m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $149.5m
Company benefits
- Free flight anywhere in the world on every anniversary
- Complementary wellness benefits, including Headspace and Ginger subscriptions
- $75/month contribution by Nova towards commuter benefits
- Dental and vision are 95% subsidized for Nova Credit employees, and 50% for dependents
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- $1500/year professional development budget
- Catered lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
- Health insurance
- SF / NY salaries across the US 🇺🇸
- $50/month contribution by Nova Credit towards your cell phone bill 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Misha Esipov
(CEO)Previously Teaching Fellow at NYU Stern School of Business for 2 years and Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs for 3 years.
Nicky Goulimis
(Board Member)Previously worked for 3 years at Bain & Company, holding various positions such as Associate Consultant and Senior Associate Consultant. She served as COO until 2021.
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