Staff Software Engineer, Earnin
$252-308k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, US)
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501-1000 employees
Posted today
$252-308k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, US)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that works for people.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience
- 7+ years of delivering value through software in a collaborative environment
- Expertise in trade-off analysis for distributed architectures
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language and the ability to understand more than one - we currently work in C# and Kotlin
- Familiarity with the clean architecture approach
- Experience with various data storage, including relational and document databases
- Comfortable and experienced with AI-native development workflows and tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar) as part of your day-to-day engineering practice
- Ability to work across the stack (e.g., backend, mobile, web) is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, result-driven environment
- Being self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision
What the job involves
- EarnIn seeks experienced, collaborative, resourceful staff-level engineers to join our product development teams
- As a Staff Engineer, you will work cross-functionally with various teams and contribute to the design and development of new products
- This role sits on our Growth engineering team, which owns EarnIn's member acquisition and onboarding experience, with a mission of making financial momentum accessible to more people by turning new members into engaged, trusting members of the EarnIn community
- Drive the design & implementation of new features - break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code
- Make a meaningful impact in the lives of our community members
- Design & deliver robust microservice integrations via REST/gRPC APIs using various communication, consistency, and coordination strategies
- Collaborate and mentor other senior engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews
- Contribute to defining technical direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success
- Estimate and manage team project timelines and risks
- Use AI tools to work effectively across our stack and accelerate design, implementation, and debugging
- Care passionately about producing high-quality designs and code
- Participate in hiring and onboarding for new team members
- Lead cross-team engineering initiatives
Our take
Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their paychecks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.
Unlike competitors in this growing space, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of business customers who offer Earnin as an employee benefit.
Earnin has managed to continue its steady growth even while the wider tech landscape suffered setbacks, which suggests a wise leadership. It also continues to improve its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2018
$125m
SERIES C
Sep 2017
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- FSA
- Mental health resources
- Employee Resource Groups
- Stipend for growth opportunities
- Pet friendly office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ram Palaniappan
(Founder & CEO)Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.
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