Engineering Manager, Avant
Personal credit FinTech
Open for applications
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every customer with innovative solutions designed to help them reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS computer science or related field
- Proven experience as a software engineering manager or team lead within an Agile environment
- Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies, techniques, and frameworks, like Scrum or Kanban
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to motivate and guide a team
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of microservice architecture and API driven development
- Eight or more years experience in back-end development using languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or .NET
- Five or more years in database management and maintenance with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with version control tools (e.g., Git), automated testing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to think outside the box for innovative solutions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Understand the value of teamwork and know that no problem is too hard or too big with the right team
- Experience with performance management and team building
- Familiar with DORA metrics
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and one or more frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
- This position may require you to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- If required, you'll be asked to provide proof that you’re fully vaccinated upon your start date or before working in or visiting our Chicago office
- You’re considered fully vaccinated two weeks after you receive the second dose of a two-dose vaccine series (e.g., Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson/Janssen)
What the job involves
- Avant is seeking a driven Engineering Manager to help us build the future of consumer lending
- We provide personal loans and credit cards to millions of customers across the US, empowering them to take control of their financial futures. If you're passionate about leading a team and leveraging technology to drive innovation while making a real impact on people's lives, this is the perfect opportunity for you
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including analysis, design and architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment
- Create and Review Request For Comments (RFC) documents
- Maintain and improve the performance and maintainability of existing software
- Design and update the database, as well as develop system architecture
- Plan and refine your team’s roadmap and backlog items with the Product Manager and leadership team
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
- Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables through close collaboration with product teams and stakeholders
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of software engineers in a fast-paced Agile environment
- Maintain high morale and manage the well-being of team members
- Drive onboarding and professional development of new team members
- Drive cross team collaboration, support and unblock your team effectively
- Leverage your experience and knowledge to increase your team's productivity through mentorship and coaching
- Communicate and enforce Avant software engineering standards and best practices
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by driving postmortem, retro and experiment effectively
- Efficiently use our tech stack to develop scalable and robust software solutions
- Stay updated on new technology trends and best practices in full-stack development
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 based on machine learning and a large database to manage their risk. The business has issued over $8 billion in loans to date.
The company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It paired up with Zero Financial in 2021, expanding its business to the digital banking space. It plans to offer a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits.
Many fintechs are looking at ways to remove the traditional barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans. Avant is not alone in this space, but by expanding its offering to banking products as well, it has increased its customer appeal and its reach. The company has recently received a large investment from Ares Management Alternative Credit Funds, enabling it to expand its credit portfolio and further develop its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Authenticity. We show up to work as our whole selves and make sure others can too
- Collaboration. We can only succeed when we do so as a team
- Problem-Solving. The harder the problem, the more satisfying the solution
- Customer. We are all owners of the customer experience
- Initiative. Plan. Adapt. Get Sh!t Done
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Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Executive Chairman)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank for a year, before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in January 2013. They have been Chairman since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(CTO)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 since 2019 as CTO.
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