Principal Software Engineer, Earnin

$310.5-379.5k

+ Equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

2 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

Earnin

Paycheck advance service for employees

Open for applications

Earnin

Paycheck advance service for employees

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsFinancial Services

Open for applications

$310.5-379.5k

+ Equity

Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

2 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BPersonal financePaymentsFinancial Services

Company mission

Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people.

Role

Who you are

  • 12+ years of development experience in a fast-paced environment, with demonstrated experience building and scaling architecture teams and programs
  • Bachelor's, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience
  • Led or made significant contributions to large feature releases with organizational impact
  • Well-versed in modern software development and architecture practices for full-stack web development, microservices and data engineering
  • Designed and implemented systems and frameworks that have succeeded over a long term
  • Recognized in the organization as an expert in multiple domains and have made many high-quality contributions to projects
  • Mentors multiple Senior or Staff level Engineers to ensure that you are not a single point of failure
  • Sets the architectural direction for the company - planned and executed against a roadmap
  • Participates in recruiting for the organization by sourcing, interviewing, and closing offers for managers

What the job involves

  • We're on a mission to reinvent the financial system and make it work for people
  • We are looking for passionate and resourceful engineers to join our backend teams
  • You will have the opportunity to make an impact with your technical contributions and how people think about money
  • Our current team is largely composed of experienced, senior engineers who are excellent mentors
  • Many of them have worked in elite tech giants such as Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Uber, Dropbox, etc
  • As a Director of Engineering, Software Architecture, you will work cross functionally with various teams and will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and development of our backend services
  • Work with the leadership across EarnIn to deliver on our mission: building a financial system that works for everyday people
  • Be a strong partner to product and other engineering teams to drive improvements to business metrics and build new features
  • Create an architecture improvement roadmap and drive its implementation with your team across the company
  • Lead large scale system redesigns initiatives to shape the future of EarnIn’s platform
  • Establish processes to foster adoption of best practices across the organization
  • Recruit other great engineers for your team and help in the recruiting efforts for other teams
  • Be a mentor and coach junior to staff level engineers by enabling them to do their best work
  • Provide technical leadership to developers both in your team and across the engineering organization
  • Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high quality products
  • Contribute to engineering wide initiatives at EarnIn

Our take

Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their pay checks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.

Unlike competitors in this growing space such as Dave, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of over 300,000 business customers which offer Earnin as an employee benefit. Around 70 million paycheck advances were taken through the platform in 2022 alone, totalling $5 billion. Since then, this number has grown to an overall earnings access value of $15 billion.

Earnin is growing despite current difficulties in the wider tech landscape and is continuing to hire in all departments. It will continue to improve upon its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.

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Top investors

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42% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Dec 2018

$125m

SERIES C

Sep 2017

$39m

SERIES B

Total funding: $190.1m

Company benefits

  • 401k
  • FSA
  • Mental health resources
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Stipend for growth opportunities
  • Pet friendly office
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Ownership
  • Speed
  • Impact
  • Outstanding people
  • Curious truth-seeking
  • Multi-level thinking

Company HQ

Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.

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