Staff Software Engineer, Parafin
Partner Platform
$265-330k
+ Equity grant
Embedded financial services for SMBs
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Embedded financial services for SMBs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$265-330k
+ Equity grant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratise access to growth capital.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, combines strong technical fundamentals with pragmatic judgment, and can lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend or platform systems
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science (or related field)
- You care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft
- You have experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects and can make sound tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and time to value
- You are comfortable owning and driving the development of both product and platform initiatives from scratch
- You take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions accordingly
- You have a strong grasp of engineering fundamentals
- You have experience building and operating asynchronous systems or data pipelines in production environments
- You are excited about working on a small team and helping us set the foundations for the company
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced user-focused backend software engineer to join our Partner Platform team in San Francisco
- In this Staff role, you will shape the technical direction of partner-facing experiences and deliver high-leverage systems that improve how partners build with Parafin
- The Partner Platform team owns the foundational systems that power partner integrations at Parafin. We build and operate partner data ingestion pipelines, DAG-based processing systems, public APIs, durable webhook delivery infrastructure, sandbox environments, and partner-specific integrations
- We collaborate across engineering and data teams to ensure partner data reliably powers underwriting, risk evaluation, and reporting workflows. Our roadmap includes major platform modernization efforts, including evolving our data architecture and strengthening the reliability and scalability of our asynchronous, event-driven systems
- Lead the technical design and evolution of key components of our partner platform infrastructure, including partner data ingestion and sharing systems, public APIs, and durable webhook delivery systems
- Drive end-to-end initiatives that improve the partner journey, from developer tooling and dashboards to the underlying platform systems that power ingestion, APIs, and real-time partner updates
- Set direction through technical vision, RFCs, and architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders across engineering, data, and product on priorities and tradeoffs
- Design and operate asynchronous, event-driven systems to reliably process partner data and deliver real-time updates to partner systems
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code review, and improving team processes, reliability practices, and on-call health
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
77% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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