Backend Engineer - Platform

Posted 4 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA
1-3 Years Experience
Financial Services
The Role
As a Backend Engineer at Rightfoot, you will design, build, test, and deploy new features for a passwordless financial data platform. Responsibilities include collaborating with team members, contributing to core functionalities, and continuously learning new technologies while engaging in a startup-minded environment.
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About Us

Rightfoot's vision is to connect the world’s financial data in one click.

We believe that consumers and small businesses should have the right to permission their financial data in just one click to access fair financial services. And that they should not be required to share their sensitive bank usernames and passwords in order to do so.

Rightfoot is building the first customer-permissioned financial data platform that does not require end customers to share their bank usernames and passwords.  The power of our product is that it both decreases friction in the user experience and increases financial access. Today, lenders leverage Rightfoot to slash failed payments and subsequent bank fees to their end customers, seamlessly monitor customer accounts, screen for fraud, and more. 

Rightfoot raised a $15M Series A to build the new standard for frictionless consumer-permissioned data, and is backed by top fintech VCs like Bain Capital Ventures and BoxGroup, as well as executives and founders of companies like Venmo, Block, Marqeta, Eventbrite, and more. Rightfoot was named a CB Insights’ Fintech 100, Will Reed Top 100, and Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Star.

Hey! Whaddaya think you’re doing?

As an Engineer at Rightfoot you will be working with our existing engineers to design, build, test and deploy new features of our passwordless financial data platform.

What can you expect from an Engineer role at Rightfoot:

  • You will be using your amazing communication skills, collaborating with others, engaging your problem solving skills to help build the core functionality of our new platform
  • You will engage with your startup mindset, not only identifying problems but suggesting solutions across the board
  • You will be mentored and upskilled by highly experienced engineers, some of whom also bake us cookies from time to time.
  • You will act like an owner of Rightfoot and be able to make bold decisions in areas of ambiguity with minimal guidance from the team when necessary (but really, we’ve got your back!) 
  • You will constantly ship new things, you will make mistakes, you will learn and do it all over again.
  • You will be continuously learning new technology, tools or techniques  and advocating for and against them as necessary
  • You will f@#%ing break through walls!

What about you huh?

We’re looking for you to have some but not necessarily all of these skills. If you’re mostly a match, though, and you’re willing to learn the rest, we’d love to hear from you.

  • You have 2+ years building backend services for SaaS products or similar
  • You have 2+ years of working with a strongly typed, object oriented language (we use Java)
  • You have worked in a Series-A startup or earlier.
  • You are a quick learner with the thirst for more knowledge

Bonus Points if you've got:

  • Experience with Spring framework
  • Experience with Kafka or similar distributed event store and stream-processing platform.
  • Knowledge of creating and consuming RESTful APIs
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Fintech industry experience

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Location

Rightfoot is based in San Francisco, CA in what we like to think is a fun part of town (Van Ness & Jackson St). You'll be expected to come into the office to collaborate with the team 4 days/ week, and we work from home on Fridays. 

Our Benefits

  • Have an outsized impact solving real world financial problems
  • Equity and competitive salary
  • Paid medical, dental, vision insurance (90% paid by Rightfoot for employees, 51% for dependents)
  • Unlimited books that help you grow at the company 
  • Unlimited "Whoopsie Cocktails" for making the biggest mistakes
  • 12 weeks paid family leave
  • Student debt company contributions
  • 401k plan
  • Unlimited vacation days (and we require/ encourage you to take it)
  • A funny, quirky, scrappy, and kind team

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
21 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Hundreds of developers use Rightfoot's APIs to seamlessly power payments to student debt, credit card debt, and more. We integrate directly with loan servicers whose backends were built in the 1970s on COBOL.

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