Lead Software Engineer

 

Main characteristics

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Company

Beyond Finance

Industry

IT & Telecoms

Job summary

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 300,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

About The Role

You'll work closely with our leadership team to help guide our technology and product decisions for our core back end services platform. We're a small group that values clear communication, transparency, and collaboration. We drive progress by small iterations and reflecting on how we can best work together.

We're a Chicago-based company looking for candidates willing to come into our downtown office 2-3 days a week. Enjoy in-person team collaboration, mentorship, and catered lunches not to mention a free fitness center and relaxation lounge! If you're not Chicago-based, we can offer relocation as well!

What You'll Do
Drive decisions for greenfield projects that will drive the business for the next 3-5 years
Design and build our internal-facing API's, asynchronous back end processing, and third-party integrations using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and AWS
Facilitate technical conversations with other engineers and help steer decisions in the right direction
Offer constructive and respectful feedback via code reviews
Assist other engineers in resolving or removing blockers they might encounter
Research and promote design patterns and practices that fit our technical challenges
Write automated unit and integration tests as well as build tools to assist in testing various aspects of our platform
Build in business and technical metrics alongside the features themselves to further us as a data-driven organization
Work with our devops team to ensure our CI/CD pipeline built with CircleCI, Jenkins, and AWS tooling fits our growing needs.
Receive a personalized development program and sponsorship from your manager
What We Look For
Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production-quality software using Ruby on Rails.
Expertise in building and consuming APIs
Strong knowledge of database design and writing SQL statements
Ability to troubleshoot production issues in unfamiliar code
Experience scoping large projects into small iterations for release
Clear and efficient communication skills
Mentorship skills and the ability to give well-crafted constructive feedback

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Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we'll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
401(k) matching program
Merit advancement opportunities
Career development & training

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.