Backend Team Lead, Lendbuzz
$160-180k
Car financing platform
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Car financing platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help you build your credit and get your dream car with our excellent services.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Python, PostgreSQL and system design, with a proven ability to architect efficient back-end systems and mentor engineers.
- This role requires a passion for delivering high-quality, user-centric products and a commitment to driving operational excellence through collaborative, scalable software solutions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 6+ years of backend development experience with at least 2 years in a senior or lead position
- Expertise in one of the programming languages (Python, Java or Go)
- Strong understanding of database like PostgreSQL and building RESTful APIs
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams
- Strong architectural and systems thinking, especially in distributed systems
- Experience with Linux, cloud platforms (AWS), and containerization (Docker)
What the job involves
- Looking for a skilled Team Lead to join our engineering team, with a focus on leading backend development while collaborating closely with frontend engineers.
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers, with a primary focus on driving backend system design, architecture, database development, API optimization, and overall backend performance
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems and APIs, ensuring they align with product requirements
- Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and frontend teams to define technical requirements and deliver high-quality, integrated solutions
- Drive operational excellence by overseeing code quality, conducting code reviews, ensuring robust quality assurance processes, and actively monitoring production systems
- Foster a culture of mentorship and continuous learning by guiding junior engineers, reviewing their work, and helping them grow technically and professionally
- Champion the use of best practices in backend development, including database design, API development, and distributed system architecture
- Manage and prioritize tasks within an Agile team, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with project goals and milestones
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of backend and frontend systems, optimizing the overall user experience
- Take an active role in driving innovation, improving system performance, and scaling backend infrastructure to meet growing business needs
Our take
On a mission to help individuals currently underserved by the traditional credit system, Lendbuzz is an automobile finance platform that uses machine learning and AI to help consumers with little to no credit history access financing when buying a car.
Research found that nearly two thirds of consumers want to improve their credit scores, likely because it’s deemed the only way to access loans and credit cards. Whilst banks and traditional lenders assess credit based on FICO scores, Lendbuzz finds new signals and other relevant data to assess a person’s credit worthiness.
$100 million in lending capital from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is fuelling more warehouse capacity for Lendbuzz's loan origination growth. It has secured its substantial investment thanks to a prolonged period of high performance, having established a year-on-year loan originations growth of more than 100% per annum.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2023
$45m
LATE VC
Aug 2022
$43.7m
LATE VC
Total funding: $366.1m
Company benefits
- Dental and Health Insurance
- Company Outings
- 401(k)
- Fitness Center
- Unlimited PTO
- Stocked Kitchen
- Company Issued Hardware
- Cool Swag
Company values
- Diversity is a competitive advantage - We celebrate our differences, and are better when we have a variety of experiences, viewpoints, and backgrounds.
- Compassion is a strength - We care about our customers and look to build long-term relationships with them.
- Simplicity is a key feature - We work hard to make our forms and processes as painless and intuitive as possible.
- Honesty and transparency are non negotiable - We incorporate these traits in all of our interactions.
- Financial opportunity belongs to everyone - We work every day to improve lives by extending this opportunity.
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Amitay Kalmar
(CEO)Previously served as Vice President of Technology Investment Banking for Deutsche Bank, and Project Manager for IDF.
Dan Raviv
(CTO)Previously worked in Research for both Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hewlett-Packard.
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