Your financial future shouldn't depend on your race, background, or zip code. Yet 45 million Americans remain "credit invisible," while countless others face denials, evictions, and predatory interest rates regularly. Esusu is changing that.
As a financial technology and data platform, we're revolutionizing financial health, identity services, and inclusive decision-making for individuals and businesses alike.
Our impact speaks volumes:
- $50 billion in credit activity facilitated
- 5 million+ rental units in our network
- Trusted partnerships with leading real estate companies, government entities, fintechs, banks, and employers
The Engineering Team
We are building a team of owners and changemakers. It is not enough to have the intention to do good –Esusu engineers translate intent into action and outcomes. We believe that lone heroes cannot accomplish our ambitious goals. Lasting change requires work by determined and collaborative individuals with a customer-first mindset. Our engineers aim to delight our customers and drive our business and team forward by leveraging their technical skills, empathetic curiosity, and teamwork.
Our back-end is microservice-based, hosted in AWS, and mainly written in Go. Our front end is based on React and written in Typescript. Our mobile apps are built using Flutter. Our data infrastructure is based on MongoDB, PostgreSQL, S3, Sagemaker, Snowflake, Talend, and mainly written in Python.
We are continuously innovating and always open to new solutions. Because Esusu is a financial services company, we are obsessive about every aspect of compliance and security. We embrace a DevOps environment where the team is responsible for the full spectrum of development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, including working with product and business operations teams to create customer-focused solutions. Even though we are 100% remote, Esusu’s culture is intensely collaborative.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to play a pivotal role in the future growth of our company. This role will involve back-end system design and coding, with a heavy dose of data engineering and big data– not just ETL/ELT and streaming but also validation, cleaning, de-duplicating, matching, testing, and quality. You will be responsible for delivering polished solutions in collaboration with an agile team of mission-driven and talented front-end and back-end engineers.
You will be working on our core data collection systems for enterprise customers, benefiting millions of people. These products will be key in driving our company's future growth, and your role will be crucial in their development. This will require you to break down problems to their essential components and come up with simple, elegant solutions—always planning for scalability and consistently adopting a customer and product-oriented perspective.
This role will report to the company’s Client Products Engineering Director.
Core Competencies
- Superb programming, software, and data development skills – You can independently devise and implement solutions to problems with minimal explanation needed.
- Strong communication skills – You can efficiently translate between technical and non-technical audiences and have strong writing skills.
- High standards – Your work is of the highest quality, and you continue to raise the bar within your immediate team and our organization.
- Balance velocity with long-term goals – You balance thinking big with delivering the right thing in an agile and speedy manner. You are curious, flexible, and nimble in your approach and implementation.
- Heart of a teacher – You are a capable mentor and able to inspire and empower others on your team.
- Getting work done and driving excellence – You strive for excellence and prioritize delivering high-quality outcomes and projects.
- Adaptability – You thrive in an environment that changes quickly and is constantly presenting new challenges.
Minimum Qualifications
- Very strong back-end and distributed system engineering work experience
- Strong data engineering experience
- Strong experience building scalable microservice and distributed systems
- Strong experience with the full gamut of tools used at Esusu:
- Backend: Go, Python
- Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform
- Data: PostgreSQL, S3, Dagster, Redis, Snowflake, MongoDB
- Experience writing, maintaining and monitoring web services on containerized and serverless cloud environments such as AWS Lambda and containers (e.g. Docker)
- Experience with SQL and no-SQL databases, and data warehouses and/or data lakes
- Mastery of core development practices: Agile, TDD, CI/CD, and DevSecOps
- Mastery of standard security and compliance protocols and practices
Above and Beyond
- Experience in the FinTech or PropTech areas.
- Experience with front-end systems and frameworks (Typescript, React)
- Experience in a startup environment.
- Experience in SOC2 or similar certified organizations.
Competitive Benefits That Support You
At Esusu, we invest in our people with benefits designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally:
- 💵Competitive Salary - for Series B startup - $170,000 - $190,000 annually
- 📈Equity - a significant RSU grant which vest over four years with a 1 year cliff.
- ✅Remote first work environment - Where we trust you to get your work done.
- 🌴Generous PTO – Enjoy a generous time off policy and 14 company wide paid holidays.
- 🩺Premium Health Coverage – Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 💳Partial-Employer Funded Health Savings Account - Available for High Deductible Plans.
- 🍼Paid Parental Leave – 12 weeks of 100% pay to support growing families.
- 💰Retirement Plans – Secure your future with our competitive 401(k) offerings, including a 4% company match (for US only).
- 🎓Tuition Reimbursement – For qualified programs to complement work experience.
- 📚Professional Development Stipend – To support your continued growth and learning.
- 🤝In person and virtual team get togethers - To connect with your fellow Esusu colleagues.
- 📈Free Credit Building Benefit - Build your credit score for free as an Esusu employee.
This job is eligible only for the following states: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, New York, Illinois and Washington.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
© Esusu Inc. All rights reserved, Esusu is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.
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