Software Engineer, Pomelo
$113.6-196.7k
Fee-free international remittances
Job no longer available
Fee-free international remittances
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$113.6-196.7k
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
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Technical proficiency and production experience in Java, TypeScript, React, React Native, and/or similar
- Experience in independently building meaningful apps or services and shipping and iterating on them in production
- Genuine interest in our mission, and genuine desire to have real-world impact. We’re too small and early today to support engineers who are only interested in deep technical problems, for example
- Ability and readiness to work in an early-stage startup. You have experience working in ambiguous environments, defining or clarifying requirements yourself. You’ve taken initiative and ownership in solving problems, not just implementing solutions
- Effective communication and collaboration skills. You’re able to clearly convey technical concepts and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences, and you have past experience working with others outside of engineering
What the job involves
- We’re a small team of <10 engineers today, and we’re looking for 2-3 more engineers to join us on our journey
- Regardless of specialization, you’ll be given major problems to solve, and significant ownership in solving them
- Growth. Deeply understand our end-to-end acquisition funnel, work with our peers in product and marketing to identify opportunities for impact, and then make them happen! Success is measured directly through conversions and retention
- Recent examples here include shipping a web version of our signup flow (originally mobile-only), iterating on our credit underwriting model (to expand access to our product), and building out a significant promotional exchange rates feature (making us significantly better than the market)
- Quality and delight. Our success as a company will be determined in large part by the quality of the product we provide to our customers and how delighted we make them feel. (Word of mouth is the number one way most money transfer services spread.) What feedback are we hearing from customers and customer service? Where are we falling short, and where can we go above and beyond?
- Recent examples here include integrating with a courier service in the Philippines for fast and reliable card delivery overseas, and implementing an international security standard (3DSecure) for immediate “virtual card” support (our first magic moment)
- Infra and tools. We take pride in our craft, and we value our time, so we regularly build infrastructure and tooling that makes us more effective or saves us time
- Recent examples here include a whole internal admin app for customer support and operations (we use Retool for this today), analytics & experimentation infra to let us test, measure, and learn (we use Segment, Mixpanel, and LaunchDarkly today), and continuous deployment infra for our website (automatically shipping to production on every merge to main, with preview deployments on every PR)
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
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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