Senior Software Engineer, Applications - US
Wagestream, United States

Wagestream is the global leader in Earned Wage Access (EWA). We provide an income streaming solution for employers to give employees instant access to their earnings, and prevent them ever having to go into debt between pay cycles.

We were founded for a social purpose to reduce the poverty premium. We believe the monthly pay cycle is fundamentally broken and unfair to employees, and that we can fix it. We know financial services are better served through the employer, and have built a set of tools [track, stream, save, learn], that boost the financial resilience of a workforce and have a measurable and proven impact on employee retention and productivity.

We love our clients and do everything we can to support them. We already help 350,000 employees access their income when they need it, across some of the largest organisations in the UK including the NHS, Bupa, Holland amp; Barrett, Stonegate Pubs and Rentokil. In July 2020, Wagestream raised additional funding to expand into new markets in Europe and North America. Our mission is to provide fair financial services to all and our technology has started to create a whole new category; the workplace bank.

Senior Software Engineer - Applications

Wagestream moves money. We currently move tens of millions of currency per month, and at current growth rates that will measure in the billions within the next 12 months. Importantly, this is not just a few credit card payments or bills -- this is people's wages, it's their livelihood, so we take our payment responsibility very seriously.

The Core Banking team is responsible for maintaining our US, UK, EU and AU infrastructure. In general, those the global payment schemes work amazingly well, but when processing hundreds of thousands of transactions, there are always exceptions. The Core Banking team makes sure that our platform flags those exceptions and recovers from all possibly failure modes automatically.

We release multiple times per day, so you'll need to be comfortable owning features from concept, to release, to post-release measurement. The technology stack is a backend of AWS+Python+Postgres, and a frontend of vue.js, but experience with those particular technologies is not required. You should however, have a proven track-record of shipping web and mobile applications.

• Work with stakeholders to define new features for employees and employers
• Architect, test, and release new features (ideally to a subset of our total audience)
• Work with data science team to analyse effectiveness, and tweak where necessary
• "Push the button" and release your creation into the wild
• Contribute to the broader engineering team (best practices, tools, technologies)

• You are full-stack.
• You look at the full picture to understand the value and impact of what you are building by talking to customers (internal, external)
• You are data-driven and rigorously analyse and measure the performance of features to unearth opportunities to improve.
• You thrive on building what users and clients need, not just what they want, so you research, analyse, and think long-term.
• You realise that products are created by teams, not by individuals. And, what matters is what gets done, not who did it.
• You’ll get kicks out of generating great ideas which might improve the daily lives of everyone who uses our service.
• You constantly battle with the "Building The Right Product" and "Building The Product Right" argument - it keeps you honest, and in-tune with the value you produce.
• You shape what you build through active contribution in product conversations and provide a strong technical voice to solving end-user needs

Requirements

What experience would we expect you to have?

(But if you’re close that’s still a conversation we would like to have!)

• 7+ years experience in professional software engineering
• Mastery of at least one modern web/mobile framework. This could be React, Angular, Vue, or something else, but the point is you must be comfortable switching frameworks and picking the right tool for the job.
• Deep experience with the AWS stack. We are heavy users of DyanmoDB, SQS, S3, SES, Lambdas, API Gateway, etc
• We're not expecting you to be a graphic designer, but you should have an eye for aesthetics and feel comfortable designing some UI/UX yourself

• Mastery of Python, SQL, and REST APIs

Bonus points

• Prior experience with banking or payments is nice, but not required

Benefits

• Welcome you as a part of the team that is changing the way people are paid, forever.
• Embrace you within our culture of trust and autonomy
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