Staff Software Engineer

As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.

We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

As a Staff Engineer at EarnIn, all systems you work on are business-critical to our success.  We manage systems that provide real-time and scheduled money transfers, facilitating the ability to track outcomes, reconcile discrepancies, and respond to returns, chargebacks, and other events. We seek experienced, collaborative, and resourceful Staff-level engineers to join our backend teams.  As a Staff Engineer, you will work cross-functionally with various teams and contribute to the design and development of our backend services. 

This position will ideally be hybrid from our Mexico City office as part of our expanding site, though a remote arrangement is possible. EarnIn offers excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our headquarters in Mountain View. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

• →Drive the design and implementation of new features. Break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code.
• →Make a meaningful impact on the lives of our community members.
• →Design & deliver robust microservice integrations via REST/gRPC APIs using various communication, consistency, and coordination strategies.
• →Collaborate and mentor other senior engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews.
• →Contribute to defining technical direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
• →Estimate and manage team project timelines and risks
• →Care passionately about producing high-quality designs and code
• →Participate in hiring and onboarding for new team members.
• →Lead cross-team engineering initiatives.

• 7+ years of development experience, delivering value through software in a collaborative environment. 
• Expertise in trade-off analysis for distributed architectures.
• Proficient in at least one modern programming language and the ability to understand more than one - we currently work in C# and Kotlin.
• Familiarity with the clean architecture approach.
• Experience with various data storage systems, including relational and document databases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Being self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience