Job description
About the Role:
Sezzle has an incredible opportunity to make an impact within a growing FinTech company. As a Senior Software Engineer focused on our mobile app, you will be responsible for solving challenges in our highest-traffic applications, with your work having a direct impact on our product and the millions of customers using it.
About Sezzle:
Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.
As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.
At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Help own and build out new features within our cross-platform TypeScript React Native app, and Golang backend APIs.
- Manage our releases, using tools like cohorting, feature flags, and app-store infrastructure to ensure a safe rollout to our millions of active users.
- Maintain a strong working relationship with product, design, and the business to ensure stakeholder needs are being evaluated and met.
- Work with the team to continuously build clean, scalable, robust, and testable code.
- Develop a deep working knowledge of your application, data domain, and KPIs.
Minimum Requirements:
- 6+ years experience solving technical problems as part of a team.
- Experience developing and delivering a mobile application to Apple and Google’s mobile app stores.
- Strong familiarity with modern Frontend Development, Javascript or Typescript, and building applications with React Native, or similar cross-platform framework.
- Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
Preferred Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledgeable in writing automated tests for applications (unit, integration, end-to-end), and implementing them in a CI environment.
- Ability to solve problems with backend-focused languages like Go, Python, Java or similar.
- Familiarity with typical microservice architecture composed of HTTP APIs.
- Experience working with native code on iOS, Android.
About You:
- A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
- A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
- An excellent communicator.
- Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
- A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
- Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.
Sezzle’s Technology Stack:
- Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
- Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
- Backend: Golang
- Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
- DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
- Version Control: Git
- CI/CD: Gitlab
- Testing: Developer-driven, focus on automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!
What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?
At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.
Compensation
The compensation range for the role is as follows:
4,600 - 7,500 USD Monthly
Equal Employment Opportunity: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.
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