Senior Backend Software Engineer, Prosper Marketplace
$167-200k
+ Bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online P2P lending marketplace
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Online P2P lending marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$167-200k
+ Bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance financial wellbeing by providing affordable financial solutions to consumers across the credit spectrum.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a passion for building robust, scalable, and easy-to-use services and frameworks for other developers
- You thrive on solving complex architectural challenges and find satisfaction in enabling the success of your engineering partners
- Above all, you want to be part of a culture of innovation and creativity as we build the core of our financial technology!
- BS in EE/CS with 8+ years of experience or MS in EE/CS or other applicable disciplines with 6+ years of experience
- Proven experience working on a platform, foundations, or core services team is strongly preferred
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, object-oriented design, and distributed systems architecture
- Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem, with specific experience designing, building, and distributing shared libraries or frameworks
- Deep experience designing and building RESTful APIs and event-driven systems to be consumed by multiple engineering teams
- Hands-on expertise with both relational and non-relational databases (e.g., Firestore, Redis, MemoryStore)
- Experience developing and operating services in a modern cloud environment (GCP or AWS) that utilizes CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code
- Expertise in Authentication and Authorization solutions (e.g., OAuth2, OIDC, JWT)
- Familiarity with how backend APIs are consumed by various clients (e.g., front-end web, mobile, other services)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a motivated and experienced platform engineer to join our interdisciplinary team
- Design, build, and maintain the core shared libraries and frameworks used by all backend services at Prosper
- Develop and own foundational, cloud-native microservices that provide common business capabilities to the entire organization, such as our central Security, Document, and Communication services
- Act as a key partner and consultant to product engineering teams, guiding them on best practices for architecture, reliability, and the effective use of our platform services
- Partner closely with the SRE team to ensure our core services and libraries integrate seamlessly with the company’s CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and observability platforms
- Proactively identify and address systemic gaps in our architecture, processes, and tooling to reduce complexity and improve operational excellence for all developers
- Drive the migration of legacy systems to modern, cloud-native patterns on GCP
- Contribute to shape our company’s engineering culture by setting standards, writing clear documentation, and championing best practices
- Technologies we use: Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, REST APIs, NodeJs, Microservices, Python, GraphQL, React, Javascript, GCP
Our take
Prosper is a peer-to-peer lending platform, that connects investors with borrowers directly. When it launched in 2005 it was the first of its kind and paved the way for the now crowded peer-to-peer lending market, which includes competitors like Peerform, Upstart, Funding Circle and LendingClub.
The company provides an attractive option by cutting out the middleman and making applications faster, meaning that socially and financially rewarding investments can be made. Prosper is one of the largest and most recognized in this industry, having facilitated billions in loans to over two million borrowers.
In more recent years, Prosper has forged ties with banks to allow it to launch its home equity credit line, indicating a new direction for the company. It continues to develop its offering and remains a force in the market, with no reason it won't continue to succeed.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Sep 2017
$50m
SERIES G
Jan 2013
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $153.8m
Company benefits
- Take-what-you-need (paid) vacation for salaried employees
- 20 days of PTO and 7 paid holidays/year for hourly employees
- Stock options
- 401K retirement savings plan with generous matching
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance plans, with options specific to your own health coverage needs
- Prosper Fit - A monthly stipend to use for gym memberships, personal training sessions, yoga and exercise classes, or club sports/fitness fees
- Pre-tax commuter/parking assistance
- Snacks and beverage selections in our kitchen
- Monthly meet-and-greet happy hours
- Perkspot discount programs
- One Medical
- SF Location - Rooftop deck with ping-pong and foosball table
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Kimball
(Chairman & CEO)Having studied for an MBA at Brigham Young University, David worked in Management at Ford Motor Company for over 10 years, prior to spending another decade at USAA. He left his role as CFO and COO to join Prosper Marketplace in March 2016 as CEO and Chairman.
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