Software Engineer, Earnest
$155.6k
+ Restricted Stock Units and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Student loan provider
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Student loan provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$155.6k
+ Restricted Stock Units and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, plus 3 years of experience as a software developer or related occupation
- The 3 years of experience must include 3 years of experience with each of the following:
- (1) server-side concepts
- (2) Kotlin and C#
- (3) SQL Server
- (4) AWS or similar cloud-based infrastructure
- (5) Docker or other container services
- (6) writing unit and integration tests using C#, Kotlin, XUnit, and Junit
- And (7) debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis via New Relic, tracing reproduction steps, and using tools to replay user sessions
What the job involves
- The Software Engineer at Earnest LLC in Oakland, CA will build the software that is revolutionizing consumer lending, automating the loan approval process and orchestrating the transfer of billions of dollars
- Build customer software products and solutions using Kotlin, C#, and SQL Server
- Write unit and integration tests using C#, Kotlin, XUnit and Junit. Document technical designs in Confluence using proven software design principles and diagrams
- Troubleshoot, identify, and fix defects through standard techniques such as debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis via New Relic, tracing reproduction steps and using tools to replay user sessions
- Monitor deployment of code to Staging and, eventually, Production environments using Jenkins
- Work with Quality Engineer to address any issues found in testing
- Attend and participate in various agile software development process meetings such as daily standups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning and software effort sizing
- Document, decompose and size project stories in JIRA into development tasks that developers can take ownership of and code per the stated acceptance criteria
- Review and provide critical feedback on Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), Epics, and stories written by Product Managers in JIRA
- Provide coding feedback to other engineers using Github or through pair programming. Onboard new engineers to the team by sharing best practices and keeping team documentation up to date
- Provide rotating on-call support for production application software systems that comprise Earnest’s customer facing and internal lending systems
- Responsible for responding to system alerts, triaging the problem via Splunk log and dashboard analysis, New Relic system and application monitors and AWS Cloudwatch monitors to determine the severity and priority of the problem
- Responsible for either fixing the problem or escalating to other application support teams as appropriate
- Position is 100% remote
Our take
Earnest offers student loan refinancing and personal loan products. It looks at thousands of data points such as education, saving patterns, investments, and career trajectory to issue a unique credit score, which can prove a lifeline for students who may otherwise struggle to qualify for loan refinancing.
For the portion of student debtors with low credit scores, Earnest is one of a few scant options. Borrowers can choose their own loan terms to fund up to the full cost of their education, and there are no origination, application, or late fees.
Earnest has grown from distributing $8M loans in its first year of business to an impressive total $18.5 billion in student loans refinanced, and has served upwards of 200,000 people. With student loans representing such a huge sector of lending, there should be plenty of room for Earnest to continue expanding in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2017
$20m
SERIES C
Nov 2015
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127m
Company benefits
- Remote-first flexibility
- Monthly & annual remote work stipends
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- $1000 annual travel perk
- Robust 401K package
- No meeting Thursdays
- Annual company-wide offsites
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Louis Beryl
(CEO)Co-founded SolidEnergy Systems. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator. Is a Board Member of Car Dash and Roofr, and is a Mentor at First Round Fast Track.
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