Senior Software Engineer, Parafin
Infrastructure
$190-215k
+ Equity Grant
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Embedded financial services for SMBs
Be an early applicant
Embedded financial services for SMBs
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-215k
+ Equity Grant
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to growth capital.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure and distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, or Java
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and their services
- Experience with technologies and concepts like Airflow, Datadog, Buildkite, Postgres, and Auth
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code practices and tools such as Terraform
- Knowledge of relational database systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced software engineer to join our Infrastructure team and help build the foundation for our rapidly growing financial technology platform
- The Infrastructure team at Parafin owns core platforms spanning across cloud infrastructure, developer experience, data infrastructure and security
- In this role, you'll design, implement, and maintain critical infrastructure systems that power our products and services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
- Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure platforms to support our growing user base and expanding product offerings
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support new classes of applications and use cases
- Develop and maintain software spanning cloud infrastructure, developer experience, data infrastructure, and security
- Work to better availability guarantees, system performance, and observability
- Build easy-to-use abstractions with Terraform to empower engineers and increase development velocity
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team
Our take
Parafin is a fintech platform helping SMBs access growth capital. It targets platforms where SMBs sell and transact and offers an embedded finance solution with which these platforms can offer loans ranging from $500 to $10M. Parafin provides the capital for these loans and assumes the risk, allowing platforms to offer competitively attractive incentives to help them draw in a larger proportion of the growing SMB market.
Parafin’s focus on SMB growth funding is canny. Most worldwide businesses fall into the SMB category, but funding access for these businesses shrunk dramatically post-pandemic when traditional banks became more conservative with their loan approvals. This exacerbates SMB cash-flow issues, which reportedly already account for more than four in five SMB failures.
This means Parafin is helping platforms fill a growing and crucial market niche. With leadership from former Robinhood employees, confident funding from major players including the founders of Robinhood, DoorDash, and Plaid, and partnerships with Amazon, Parafin looks poised to net a substantial and lucrative market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Aug 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 401k plan
- Parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Free in-office lunches
- Mental health & well-being
- Special recognition
Company values
- Empathy: Be kind and open minded
- Efficiency: be results-oriented
- Accountability: Show up and be responsible
- Intellectual Honesty: Seek truth and give feedback
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Sahill Poddar
(Co-Founder & CEO)Completed a PhD in Particle Physics at CERN, before working as a Data Scientist with LiquidM and Facebook, then finally heading up Machine Learning Engineering at Robinhood.
Ralph Furmaniak
(Co-Founder)Completed a PhD in Analytic Number Theory at Stanford, before working as a Robinhood Data Scientist, and then as Chief Scientist at Numerai.
Vineet Goel
(Co-Founder & CPO)Worked as a Carnegie Mellon Teaching Assistant, before moving into a Software Engineer role at Quantifind, and then heading up Risk and Fraud Engineering at Robinhood.
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