ZenBusiness

Principal Engineer

Remote
GraphQL Node.js PostgreSQL HTML React CSS Python Django GCP Kubernetes API JavaScript
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Description
Who We Are
We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. 

We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their businesses.  

If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.

The Role
ZenBusiness is seeking an experienced Financial Services Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you will have the opportunity to mentor and assist other engineers while also expanding your experience in various digital financial services and architectures, such as e-commerce, mobile wallets, and online banking. Our design team works closely with security and regulatory requirements to create simple solutions that help our customers reach their goals easily. Your expertise will be sought after across the organization as we make our services available at a direct-to-consumer internet scale. The scope of this role spans the Fintech division where we currently offer banking, accounting, and merchant products, plus partner offerings. 

To broaden our customer offerings in fintech, we require a principal engineer who excels in architecture and technology to guarantee a seamless customer experience. This includes providing the entrepreneur(s) of the business with an intuitive fintech experience that differs from traditional banking systems.

Responsibilities

    • Bring your expertise in designing and architecting financial products for subscription to influence, mentor, and support the technology team.
    • Produce innovative approaches to allow newly formed organizations to generate revenue.
    • Convert difficult processes into smooth transitions.
    • Create high-quality, predictable, observable code and deliver it to production.
    • Own the delivery of new products by working iteratively with the design, engineers, and product owners to define and deliver new functionality.
    • Use data to measure the success of our financial products and improve their quality.
    • Work in an agile environment and have true ownership of the features you work on, from understanding and qualifying requirements to delivering results.
    • Improve developer productivity by improving customer success tools and self-sufficiency.
    • Architect a seamless multi-system user-facing platform to support user interface migrations and feature upgrades.
    • Technology evolution experience including changing third-party providers, modifications to the technology stack, mobile application updates through the relevant app stores, etc. 
    • Create a platform that could potentially serve other application developers with an API-first design methodology.
    • Experience delivering products for native mobile apps as well as responsive mobile web applications.
    • Apply security best practices to protect and defend sensitive information.
    • Work with customer success and our partners to remain in compliance.

Qualifications

    • 8–10 years of relevant software experience.
    • A passion for the customer experience and a drive to continuously improve it.
    • Expertise with backend and experience shipping web-based, SaaS products, as well as supporting the development of native mobile applications.
    •  Experience with DevOps, API development, and modern service-oriented architecture.
    • Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate your decisions, whiteboard new solutions, present ideas concisely, and defend your ideas.
    • Excitement to work with designers to create an amazing user experience.
    • Intellectually curious and comfortable learning new things and diving in where needed.

Tech Stack

    • JavaScript (ES 6+)
    • HTML 5
    • CSS 3 / Styled-Components
    • React 16.8+ / Redux / Apollo GraphQL
    • Node.js 12+ / Express / Fastify
    • Python & Django
    • PostgreSQL
    • Google Cloud Platform & Kubernetes
Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. That’s why we invest in our employees by providing them with competitive salaries and benefits, equity, and the opportunity to tackle interesting challenges that have a positive impact. 

Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons, and more! 

Benefits. PTO, Company Paid Medical and Vision Coverage for Employees and Dependents, Dental, Disability, and Life Benefits, 401K + matching, 10 Paid Holidays, Parental Leave, Military Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Pet Insurance, Stock Options, Paid Parking* + more! 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.

Please check out our careers page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.

*applicable to in-office employees
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