Común's mission is to help Hispanic immigrants turn their hard work into upwards mobility — starting with financial services that enable the transition from cash to the digital economy. The company is experiencing rapid growth and needs to extend its systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of non-technical company functions.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years of experience using Python and Postgres
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with DevOps (Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes)
- Experience with pub/sub models (Kafka)
Responsibilities
- extending our systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of our non-technical company functions.
- maintain our core offering — a deposit account and debit card powered through our Banking as a Service partner, while designing our architecture to bundle additional financial services into a personalized product experience.
- build new financial offerings that advance the company mission.
- Work with back end peers to establish new processes, software patterns, and tools that expedite our development process.
- Maintain a testing and observability stack that keeps our system stable and proactively alerts us of internal or third party users.
- Work with leadership to plan our engineering execution across different time horizons.
Other
- Opinionated on software engineering best practices, at a code and developer productivity level.
- Product-minded and passionate about delivering delightful experiences to customers.
- Experienced building backend systems that grow in complexity over time.
- A critical thinker capable of making tradeoffs in a fast paced environment.
- A great communicator and collaborator, capable of creating and running cross-functional processes.
