Forward Deployed Engineer, Parafin
$190-225k
+ Equity grant
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Embedded financial services for SMBs
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Embedded financial services for SMBs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-225k
+ Equity grant
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratise access to growth capital.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality code
- Experience building end-to-end backend systems, with flexibility to work across the stack
- Excellent communication skills to work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability and desire to represent Parafin with external partners
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to execute and drive progress in ambiguous environments
Desirable
- Prior founder or entrepreneurial experience. You have had extreme ownership and drive, possess a strong ability for customer-centric problem solving, and are bought into a high-growth mindset
- Experience working directly with enterprise or strategic customers. You have collaborated with business stakeholders and built trust while managing expectations across internal and external parties
- Previously built platforms and features for public use. Examples include Public APIs & demo sandbox environments
What the job involves
- Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Parafin are product-focused software engineers who operate at the intersection of partner delivery and core platform development
- FDEs lead high-complexity, net-new integrations and partner-driven initiatives end-to-end, collaborating closely with Product, Platform, and Partner Engineering (our GTM-facing partner team)
- Although FDEs interface with strategic partners, their core output is internal: shipping scalable product and platform improvements that make partner integrations faster, safer, and easier to support over time
- Own technical delivery for complex partner launches (end-to-end). Act as the engineering lead across teams to scope, sequence, and drive new work needed to launch strategic partners and expand on existing partnerships
- Ship and contribute code to the core product. Scale new & existing features across platforms to drive partner (customer) growth and adoption
- Design new integration patterns, interfaces, and end-to-end systems
- Partner closely with Sales, GTM, Product, and engineering teams to align on scope, surface product gaps early, and reduce rework downstream
- Identify and remove friction in integrations and partner support through new features and improved tooling
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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