Lead Front-End Product Engineer

At Earnest, we believe in a world where paying for your education takes less time than earning your degree.  Join us on our mission to empower anyone seeking higher education to reduce the total price tag of their degree, supercharge their ability to pay down student debt, and get on the right financial track fast.

A little background on Earnest: We're a remote first FinTech company with an accomplished team who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

 

What makes an “Earnie” culture: 

Earnest’s culture is as dynamic as the products we’re building and defining every day. We’re a fast-growing company, and that means we’re constantly integrating the new perspectives of every individual.

Earnies define our culture as:

• Earn Happy Customers
• Our success comes from anticipating their needs and providing the solutions they’re looking for.
• Better is Better
• The path to great means getting better every day. We push ourselves, and each other, to remain curious and think differently. 
•  PhD in Moving Fast
• Our customers are tired of long wait times and large student loan bills so we constantly seek out ways to deliver faster.  
•  Passion for Challenges
• Perseverance and optimism are just the start to take on the inertia of a national trillion-dollar problem. 
•  Impact is a Team Sport
• We maximize our impact when we act as one team. 

Our Earnie's are fun, innovative, and willing to rollup their sleeves to help their team succeed in a fast-paced environment. If this sounds like you, and you want to join us on our mission to radically disrupt a trillion dollar fintech industry, keep reading to find out how. 

 

As a Lead Front End Product Engineer at Earnest, you’ll be building software that is revolutionizing consumer lending, automating the loan approval process, and helping our clients responsibly manage their student loan debt. You will work on customer facing products optimized to the best possible client experience and increase Earnest’s market share. 

Our focus is on building an extensible, modern platform that allows us to move faster over time. This means we’re looking for engineers with a willingness to rethink domains from first principles and an ability to collaborate well across technical and non-technical teams. This role will report to the Manager of Engineering and will work in close collaboration with a team of Product Designers and Usability experts.

• On the front-end, we use React/Redux for building new things and Angular for a few existing applications. On the server-side, we use Node.js. 
• We deploy services in Docker and Kubernetes on AWS. 
• We integrate with other internal microservices (written mostly in Node.js and Scala) and store the bulk of our data in Postgres and Amazon S3.

Earnest empowers people with the financial capital they need to live better lives.

 

We use technology, data, and design to:

• Build more affordable products.
• Deliver them to more people, and
• Engage through more human experiences

 

This person will:

• Collaborate with the Design system team to build up the Earnest Design system
• Building customer-facing software products and solutions using React/Redux, Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker
• Writing unit and integration tests using Javascript, Node.js, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Sequelize
• Documenting technical designs in Confluence using proven software design principles and diagrams (e.g. sequence diagram)
• Troubleshooting, identifying, and fixing defects through standard techniques such as debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis via Splunk, tracing reproduction steps and using tools such as FullStory to replay user sessions
• Monitor deployment of code to Staging and, eventually, Production environments using Jenkins. 
• Working with Quality Engineers to address any issues found in testing.
• Maintain and enhance internal UI component libraries as product design standards evolve
• This role will require on call support

Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of professional experience building, shipping and maintaining a framework-based JavaScript single page application (Angular, React, etc.) of reasonable complexity
• 4+ years of experience with responsive web development and mobile-first designs
• 2+ years of experience with Node.js
• 2+ years of experience in building websites, mobile products, and design systems using the atomic design approach and developing component libraries
• 2+ years of experience in leading a technical team (mentoring, code reviews, etc.)
• A passion for clean, well organized CSS
• An understanding of how the web works and ability to weigh the pros and cons of different implementations or architecture decisions
• Interest in things that make us work better as a team, such as developing shared tooling and maintaining web best practices
• Familiarity with technologies such as Docker and NGINX is preferred
• Previous experience building Design Systems in collaboration with UI/UX designers

Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits that include: 

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Work anywhere in the U.S. 
• Mac computers + work from home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world 
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Annual “my day” 
• Pet insurance!
• Competitive parental leave
• Plenty of Earnest swag, optional in person team gatherings, picnics, celebrations, and plenty of fun virtual events 

At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.  

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.

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