Application Platform Engineering, Avant
Summer Internship
USD $36 - USD $40/ hour
M, T, Th in-office
3 days a week in office
Personal credit FinTech
Be an early applicant
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
USD $36 - USD $40/ hour
M, T, Th in-office
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To move financial lives forward.
Role
Who you are
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong curiosity and ability to learn quickly
- Comfortable experimenting with AI tools to accelerate work
- Basic programming experience in at least one language
- Clear written communication (you’ll document a lot — and that’s a good thing)
- Enjoys turning messy ideas into structured solutions
What the job involves
- We're looking for an intern to join our Digital Servicing web team
- In this role, you’ll work directly as a member of the team to help build out a new world class financial services experience, tying together checking, credit, and loan products
- Working within the technology organization at Avant, you'll be working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, and Compliance to help build beautiful, resilient and accessible user experiences
- Build rapid prototypes using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
- Create proofs-of-concept for:
- Developer tooling
- Automation scripts
- Platform services
- Observability & reliability workflows
- Turn rough ideas and whiteboard concepts into working demos
- Produce high-quality technical documentation:
- Architecture overviews
- How-to guides
- Runbooks
- Process docs
- Improve internal developer experience through clearer standards and tooling
Our take
Many Americans with below average credit scores are caught in a bind: they're unable to improve their score, and simultaneously cannot access traditional loans. Avant's alternative is to offer credit options that are powered by machine learning and based upon a large database that helps to manage risk.
For its users, the company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It has issued over $8 billion in loans to date, and has also expanded its business through the acquisitions of ReadyForZero in 2015 and Zero Financial in 2021.
This expansion has enabled Avant to reach towards its goal of offering a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits. Although there are many FinTechs looking at ways to remove the barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans, this expansion to banking products should help Avant to stand out.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2015
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $779m
Company benefits
- Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Generous paid parental leave
- Lunch allowance (Fooda) and in-office snacks
- WFH stipends for our remote employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
- No meeting wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer fridays
- Fun in-office and virtual social events
- (And who doesn’t love the swag)
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Co-Founder, Chair & CEO)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in 2013. They have been Chair since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they spent a year as a Software Engineer at CashNetUSA and Enova Financial. They founded Debteye in 2011, before starting Avant in 2013, serving first as CTO then Chief Architect, CTO again and finally CIO.
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