Intermediate Software Engineer

About Reach Financial

Reach Financial is a financial services provider that is helping people outsmart debt for good. We deliver innovative financial products using modern technology and tools to enable our customers to take control of their debt and de-mystify their personal finances. Our platform empowers our customers to turn their financial goals into a reality. Reach Financial launched in 2015 and has helped our customers pay off over $1 billion in debt. We offer debt consolidation loans and personal loans, and together these markets represent a $1.5T opportunity. In time, we will expand beyond these products to offer solutions for a variety of our customers’ personal finance challenges.

Job Summary

As an Intermediate Software Engineer, you’ll be joining the team to help us enhance and extend our loan originations and servicing platforms, which include our application flow, borrower portal, and internal platform. You’ll take ownership of significant features and systems, while contributing to technical decisions and mentoring junior developers. You’ll work on challenging problems that directly impact our users and business, with opportunities to drive technical initiatives and grow into senior leadership roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team building a modern, full stack B2C loan origination system as an augment to, and extension of, our existing technology platform
• Independently deliver reliable, on-time solutions to well-defined problems
• Review code contributions across the team and proactively suggest ways to improve and optimize
• Contribute to testing efforts, including writing test plans, and participating in QA processes
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to translate business and UI requirements into technical implementation specifications
• Collaborate within cross-functional teams including Product Manager, Product Designers, SDET, SRE and Platform engineers, and contribute to a positive team environment
• Utilize and evolve industry software delivery lifecycle best practices and methodologies for predictable and sustainable delivery models
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing
• Participate in hiring, onboarding and team building efforts

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience in full-stack software development.
• Expertise as a full stack developer using object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Typescript/Javascript or Python)
• Expertise with React or React-based frameworks like Next or Remix
• Fluent in the language of CI/CD and version control on top of Github
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and containerization (e.g. Docker)
• Experience with software testing principles and practices