Senior Backend Software Engineer, Pomelo
Fee-free international remittances
Job no longer available
Fee-free international remittances
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
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
- The ideal candidate will also be able to operate both at a high level (strategy) and get into the details (hands-on coding, coding reviews, etc.)
- Typically 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with a complex code base
- Strong programming skills (Java preferred). Our current tech stack includes:
- Backend: Java 17, AWS, Python, Lambda
- Frontend: React, React Native, Typescript
- Startup experience with a demonstrated ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
- A track record of shipping high-quality products and leading projects at scale
- An ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
What the job involves
- As a senior engineer, you’ll be a technical expert working on and solving various backend challenges
- This role requires both architecture and coding expertise, and will act as a technical mentor for other team members
- 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. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of backend engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.)
- Design and implement technical solutions for various backend engineering projects
- Collaborate on our technical vision and help drive the implementation of complex projects
- Collaborate on ways to continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems to allow us to scale the code base, drive productivity, and develop the team
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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