Software Engineer, Pomelo

Backend

Salary not provided

React

AWS

TypeScript

React Native

GraphQL

Java

Rust

Spring

Hibernate

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Fee-free international remittances

Job no longer available

Fee-free international remittances

21-100 employees

FintechB2CPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesCommunity

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

React

AWS

TypeScript

React Native

GraphQL

Java

Rust

Spring

Hibernate

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

FintechB2CPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesCommunity

Company mission

To reinvent the money transfer experience with credit to make it refreshingly free, fast, and safe.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We’re looking for someone with a good understanding of backend engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.)
The ideal candidate will have an interest in operating at a high level (strategy) and getting into the details (hands-on coding, coding reviews, etc.)
3+ years of software engineering experience
Strong command in at least one programming language. For reference, our current technology stack includes:
Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, AWS, PostgreSQL
Middle: GraphQL, Rust
Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript, Expo, Storybook
Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking:
Ability to think outside the box and propose creative solutions to complex problems
Strong analytical skills to assess issues, identify root causes, and make informed decisions
Adaptability and Flexibility:
A demonstrated ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, navigate ambiguity, adapt to new priorities and directions, continuously grow, and master your craft
A track record of shipping high-quality products

What the job involves

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
Plan, implement, and ship high-quality, maintainable code for various engineering projects, including the development of APIs, database schema design, and third-party integrations
Closely collaborate with frontend engineering and product to drive and implement complex projects
Help to incrementally improve our engineering processes, tooling, and systems, allowing 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

Top investors

Trustpilot (4.5)

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

Eric Velasquez Frenkiel

(CEO)

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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