Staff Software Engineer
Remote
Canada, United States
$212,500 - $259,200/yearly
Staff
Top Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Dental & vision 95% subsidized
Unlimited paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups
- Deep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack
- A visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment
- Exceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production, define critical technical strategy that powers innovation at scale across our products and platform, and elevate our engineering organization's capability through mentorship and setting best practices
- OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK: We leverage Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS to bring our products to life
- YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS A RANGE OF PROJECTS
- Architecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile)
- Pioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers
- Shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform
- Defining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability
- IN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU'LL:
- Land your "new hire" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature
- Thoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy
- Quickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, understanding their strategic implications for engineering
- Build rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values
- IN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU'LL:
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity
- Actively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations)
- Forge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects
- Deepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement
- Develop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level
- IN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU'LL:
- Lead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals
- Influence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership
- Establish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform
- Become a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies
- Significantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen
Benefits
- SF / NY salaries across the US
- Free flight anywhere in the world on every anniversary
- Complementary wellness benefits, including Headspace and Ginger subscriptions
- $75/month contribution by Nova towards commuter benefits
- $50/month contribution by Nova Credit towards your cell phone bill
- Dental and vision are 95% subsidized for Nova Credit employees, and 50% for dependents
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- $1500/year professional development budget
- Catered lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
- Health insurance
About Nova Credit
Financial Services
51-200
Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data. The company is a CRA that leverages its unique set of data sources, bank-grade infrastructure and compliance framework, and proprietary credit expertise to help lenders fill the gaps that exist in traditional credit analytics. Nova Credit serves as the bridge between data and credit excellence, providing a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to give lenders across various industries a competitive edge in the open finance era. Its cross-border credit product, Credit Passport®, cash flow underwriting product, Cash Atlas™, and income verification product, Income Navigator, are used by leading organizations like American Express, Verizon, HSBC, SoFi, Scotiabank, and Yardi.
We're hiring! https://jobs.lever.co/neednova
Staff Software Engineer
Remote
Canada, United States
$212,500 - $259,200/yearly
Staff
Top Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Dental & vision 95% subsidized
Unlimited paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups
- Deep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack
- A visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment
- Exceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production, define critical technical strategy that powers innovation at scale across our products and platform, and elevate our engineering organization's capability through mentorship and setting best practices
- OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK: We leverage Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS to bring our products to life
- YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS A RANGE OF PROJECTS
- Architecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile)
- Pioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers
- Shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform
- Defining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability
- IN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU'LL:
- Land your "new hire" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature
- Thoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy
- Quickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, understanding their strategic implications for engineering
- Build rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values
- IN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU'LL:
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity
- Actively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations)
- Forge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects
- Deepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement
- Develop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level
- IN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU'LL:
- Lead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals
- Influence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership
- Establish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform
- Become a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies
- Significantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen
Benefits
- SF / NY salaries across the US
- Free flight anywhere in the world on every anniversary
- Complementary wellness benefits, including Headspace and Ginger subscriptions
- $75/month contribution by Nova towards commuter benefits
- $50/month contribution by Nova Credit towards your cell phone bill
- Dental and vision are 95% subsidized for Nova Credit employees, and 50% for dependents
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- $1500/year professional development budget
- Catered lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
- Health insurance
About Nova Credit
Financial Services
51-200
Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data. The company is a CRA that leverages its unique set of data sources, bank-grade infrastructure and compliance framework, and proprietary credit expertise to help lenders fill the gaps that exist in traditional credit analytics. Nova Credit serves as the bridge between data and credit excellence, providing a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to give lenders across various industries a competitive edge in the open finance era. Its cross-border credit product, Credit Passport®, cash flow underwriting product, Cash Atlas™, and income verification product, Income Navigator, are used by leading organizations like American Express, Verizon, HSBC, SoFi, Scotiabank, and Yardi.
We're hiring! https://jobs.lever.co/neednova