Director of Software Engineering, Earnin
$310.5-379.5k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Paycheck advance service for employees
Open for applications
Paycheck advance service for employees
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$310.5-379.5k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of development experience in software development, with at least 5+ years in a management capacity leading Growth teams
- You have built and managed multiple teams that regularly created high-quality output on top of critical infrastructure
- You are familiar with growth hacking rapid experimentation while adhering to engineering and operational excellence
- You are a creative, tenacious problem solver with a get-it-done attitude
- You can work comfortably with a cross-functional team made up of PMs, Analysts, and both mobile and back-end-focused engineers
- You tend to be the standard bearer who takes a great deal of pride in your work and can inspire others to rise to the occasion
- You can create and maintain a positive, healthy team environment in which everyone is supported, encouraged, and meaningfully challenged to do great work
- You are a software engineer who became a manager because you are great with people, and you want to expand what you can achieve while helping others grow in their careers
- You are ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work on technical challenges
What the job involves
- EarnIn is looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead our growth engineering organization
- Work with the leadership across EarnIn to deliver our mission: build a financial system that works for everyday people
- Be a strong partner to product and other engineering teams to drive improvements to business metrics around growing our user base and building new features. Examples include improving top-of-the-funnel visitor metrics, user activation rates, user acquisition metrics, cross and upsell products, and improving user experience
- Create a roadmap and drive its implementation with your teams across the company
- Dig into the code when required! You should be technical enough to help your team with issues requiring senior guidance
- Recruit other great engineers for your team and help in the recruiting efforts for other teams
- Be a mentor and coach for the engineers and managers in your team and help them advance their careers by enabling them to do the best work of their lives
- Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high-quality products
- Support the team in maintaining a robust level of stability while continuing to execute at great speeds
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives at EarnIn
Our take
Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their pay checks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.
Unlike competitors in this growing space such as Dave, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of over 300,000 business customers which offer Earnin as an employee benefit. Around 70 million paycheck advances were taken through the platform in 2022 alone, totalling $5 billion. Since then, this number has grown to an overall earnings access value of $15 billion.
Earnin is growing despite current difficulties in the wider tech landscape and is continuing to hire in all departments. It will continue to improve upon its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2018
$125m
SERIES C
Sep 2017
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- FSA
- Mental health resources
- Employee Resource Groups
- Stipend for growth opportunities
- Pet friendly office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ram Palaniappan
(CEO)Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.
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