IT Engineer, Pomelo

6 Month Contract

Salary not provided
AWS
Okta
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

4+ days a week in office

Pomelo

Fee-free international remittances

Be an early applicant

Pomelo

Fee-free international remittances

21-100 employees

FintechB2CPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesCommunity

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
AWS
Okta
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

4+ days a week in office

21-100 employees

FintechB2CPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesCommunity

Company mission

To reinvent the money transfer experience with credit to make it refreshingly free, fast, and safe.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience: 5+ years of IT engineering experience, with a strong track record of managing and securing IT infrastructure in dynamic environments
  • Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Technical Skills:
  • Proficiency with Okta for identity management
  • Expertise in managing Apple devices with Kandji
  • Strong knowledge of network security and experience in this area
  • Experience in IT vendor management and contract negotiations
  • Familiarity with cloud services, especially AWS
  • Solid technical support skills across hardware, software, and networks
  • Policy & Compliance: Experience in drafting and enforcing IT policies, particularly when working with external partners and vendors
  • Problem Solving: A practical approach to IT challenges with a focus on efficiency and security
  • Mindset: A passion for continuous learning and staying updated on IT trends and technologies
  • Communication: Clear and effective communication skills to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

  • Startup Experience: If you’ve thrived in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment, you’ll feel right at home
  • Cloud Expertise: Familiarity with cloud services and infrastructure, especially AWS
  • Communication Skills: Ability to translate complex technical details into clear, understandable language for everyone

What the job involves

  • This is a 6-month contract (opportunity for extension) to join Pomelo's Infrastructure team, where you’ll be the key player in managing and enhancing our IT infrastructure, ensuring everything runs smoothly and securely
  • From safeguarding our systems to optimizing user experiences, your expertise will be the driving force behind our seamless operations and top-notch security
  • Identity Management: Take charge of Okta to manage user roles and permissions, ensuring everyone has the access they need
  • Device Management: Oversee Apple devices using Kandji, keeping everything secure and compliant
  • Onboarding & Offboarding: Set up new hires with all the tech essentials and handle access removal when they move on
  • Vendor & Contract Management: Manage IT vendors, contracts, and service agreements, making sure we have the best hardware, software, and services
  • Policy Drafting: Create and update IT policies to keep us aligned with regulations and best practices
  • Network Security: Build and maintain secure networks, enforcing IT security protocols, and managing audits with ease
  • Tech Support: Provide friendly and effective tech support, resolving hardware, software, and network issues, and setting up workstations and devices
  • Project Assistance: Support IT needs for projects and upgrades, document processes, and ensure smooth transitions
  • Documentation & Reporting: Keep our IT documentation up to date, prepare performance reports, and suggest improvements

Our take

Pomelo is the newest in a growing cadre of fintech startups of the same name. This Pomelo is looking to make international payments cheaper and more useful to the citizens sending billions home in remittances from the US each year.

With Pomelo users can instantly transfer cash to up to 4 international cards in the form of credit, and control and monitor spending on them. Alongside rapid international payment, this helps those typically excluded from financial systems to begin to build up a credit score - and options are available for those with neither a credit score nor a credit history to begin with.

This gives Pomelo an undeniably attractive edge over the numerous competitors in the space. None of Pomelo’s popular rivals like Xoom, Remitly, and WorldRemit offer this credit-building option, even though many remittance senders are underbanked. Plus, whilst competitors are engaged in a costly race-to-the-bottom on transfer fees, Pomelo charges precisely none: it makes money from interchanges, not transfers.

Pomelo has only just emerged from stealth, but its strong differentiation and potentially massive market appeal could see it become a real disruptor.

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Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Apr 2024

$35m

SERIES A

Aug 2022

$20m

SEED

Total funding: $55m

Company benefits

  • 100% of your healthcare is covered by the company and 50% of all dependents
  • 15 days PTO plus national holidays in first year, and 20 days PTO plus national holidays in year two
  • $1,500 travel perk that covers plane tickets anywhere and $300 health perk
  • $500 to improve your home office, separate from things like a computer and a smart whiteboard, which the company covers
  • Semi-annual company meetups, covered by the company. This gives our remote workforce the opportunity to spend time and build in-person relationships with their colleagues

Company values

  • Earn the trust of our customers: As a startup, our customers come first, and as a fintech startup, their trust in us is paramount. We don’t take the opportunity to serve them for granted
  • Be relentless: Startups are hard and filled with adversity. We persevere through challenges, focus on impact, and strive to always be shipping, learning, and improving
  • Integrity in every language: We strive to always do what’s right, both for ourselves and for our customers around the globe
  • Show your work: Successful teams run on trust, and proactive transparency builds trust. We love holding ourselves accountable by openly sharing our progress, and we love empowering engineers by openly sharing business context. We also document extensively, to help us work remotely more effectively
  • Leadership at every level: We want every engineer to own whole problems and feel empowered to go wherever those problems take them. We also aim to lift others up and make others better

Company HQ

Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

A Stanford graduate who worked in Product at Marin Software, and then as a Partner Engineer at Facebook. Subsequently founded and served as CEO at database platform SingleStore.

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