Senior Software Engineer, Pomelo
Backend
4 days a week in office
Fee-free international remittances
Be an early applicant
Fee-free international remittances
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the money transfer experience with credit to make it refreshingly free, fast, and safe.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who loves backend engineering, balances quality (craft, reliability) with speed (business impact, rapid iteration), and thrives in a collaborative environment
- If you enjoy big-picture strategy while rolling up your sleeves to solve detailed problems, this role is for you!
- Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience working on complex systems
- Technical Skills: Strong expertise in Java or another backend language
- Mindset: A passion for learning, growth, and contributing to a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ownership: A proven track record of delivering high-quality, impactful projects
- Collaboration: An ability to translate business and product ideas into practical engineering solutions while working closely with diverse teams
What the job involves
- We’re a team of ~45 and are growing our San Francisco headquarters
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be a key technical leader, tackling exciting backend challenges while mentoring and supporting your teammates
- This role blends architecture and hands-on coding expertise, with opportunities to collaborate across teams and contribute to a shared vision
- Our Backend Team has a range of projects they work on, and is responsible for solving core platform problems. This involves areas including money, transactions, fraud, and risk
- Design and build robust technical solutions for backend engineering projects
- Contribute to our technical vision and help drive the implementation of complex initiatives
- Work with the team to enhance engineering processes, tools, and systems, ensuring we scale effectively and continuously improve
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including product and other engineering teams, to deliver seamless solutions
- Align technical requirements with both immediate business needs and long-term goals
Our take
Pomelo is the newest in a growing cadre of fintech startups of the same name. This Pomelo is looking to make international payments cheaper and more useful to the citizens sending billions home in remittances from the US each year.
With Pomelo users can instantly transfer cash to up to 4 international cards in the form of credit, and control and monitor spending on them. Alongside rapid international payment, this helps those typically excluded from financial systems to begin to build up a credit score - and options are available for those with neither a credit score nor a credit history to begin with.
This gives Pomelo an undeniably attractive edge over the numerous competitors in the space. None of Pomelo’s popular rivals like Xoom, Remitly, and WorldRemit offer this credit-building option, even though many remittance senders are underbanked. Plus, whilst competitors are engaged in a costly race-to-the-bottom on transfer fees, Pomelo charges precisely none: it makes money from interchanges, not transfers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2024
$35m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$20m
SEED
Total funding: $55m
Company benefits
- 100% of your healthcare is covered by the company and 50% of all dependents
- 15 days PTO plus national holidays in first year, and 20 days PTO plus national holidays in year two
- $1,500 travel perk that covers plane tickets anywhere and $300 health perk
- $500 to improve your home office, separate from things like a computer and a smart whiteboard, which the company covers
- Semi-annual company meetups, covered by the company. This gives our remote workforce the opportunity to spend time and build in-person relationships with their colleagues
Company values
- Earn the trust of our customers: As a startup, our customers come first, and as a fintech startup, their trust in us is paramount. We don’t take the opportunity to serve them for granted
- Be relentless: Startups are hard and filled with adversity. We persevere through challenges, focus on impact, and strive to always be shipping, learning, and improving
- Integrity in every language: We strive to always do what’s right, both for ourselves and for our customers around the globe
- Show your work: Successful teams run on trust, and proactive transparency builds trust. We love holding ourselves accountable by openly sharing our progress, and we love empowering engineers by openly sharing business context. We also document extensively, to help us work remotely more effectively
- Leadership at every level: We want every engineer to own whole problems and feel empowered to go wherever those problems take them. We also aim to lift others up and make others better
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
A Stanford graduate who worked in Product at Marin Software, and then as a Partner Engineer at Facebook. Subsequently founded and served as CEO at database platform SingleStore.
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