About Caribou
At Caribou, we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on what’s most important to them. Today, less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses, as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions, and ushering them through the process quickly. On average, our drivers save $115/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term.
Caribou is led by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries. We’re proud to be backed by a great team of investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.
About the role:
Do you thrive on leading an engineering team, collaborating with product managers on roadmap prioritization, managing the software development lifecycle, and inspiring your team to meet sprint commitments? Then this may be the job for you. The Customer Acquisition team builds our borrower refi application UX and API for partner integrations, working primarily on React/TypeScript/Node.js and our Ruby on Rails monolith. Our approach focuses on continuous improvement by learning the customers' needs and reducing friction.
What you’ll do:
- Provide stewardship over the codebases you're responsible for, striving for flexibility and agility in the face of expanding and changing business requirements
- Run the SDLC for your team, efficiently and effectively delivering great software sprint by sprint
- Continuously improve the processes and practices of your engineering team, ensuring they're doing their best work
- Partner with Product Owners to provide market and business context to your teams, maintaining a collaborative environment for product design and evolution
- Mentor and coach the engineers on your team to expand their skills and advance in their careers
- Play a leadership role in defining and evolving how Engineering works at Caribou
This role can be based out of our Caribou office in Denver, CO. Alternatively, this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates with a preference for the Chicago, IL, Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA markets.*
What we look for:
- Prior work leading engineers maintaining and improving consumer UX with React and RESTful APIs in TypeScript
- Customer-focused leaders with an understanding of and passion for well-crafted software
- Driven, life-long learners committed to expanding their skills in both leadership and engineering
- Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML, to containers and caches, to databases and DNS, to runtimes and REST
- Collaborative, people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control
- Leaders with a commitment to bringing out the best in those around them as a measure of their success
How we will take care of you:
Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Competitive compensation: $170-210k
- Equity options
- 401k savings program
- Generous paid time off including: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents.
- Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance.
- Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance.
- Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses.
Our Core Values
We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values, which guide our work and how we work together.
- Give a damn. What we’re doing matters. We show up determined to deliver results, and we love it.
- Velocity. We’re intentional about where we’re going and we race towards it.
- Make the assist. We have diverse strengths. We offer and ask for help so we all win.
Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, marital status, military or protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above, and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.
*Caribou does not currently have employee operations in AL, AK, AR, CT, HI, ID, IN, IA, KY, MS, MT, NE, NM, ND, OK, RI, SD, WV, WY.
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What We Do
Caribou is an auto fintech platform dedicated to saving customers an average of over $100 a month on their car payments. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Caribou offers auto loan refinancing and auto insurance through a seamless and transparent process, leveraging partnerships with trusted lenders and insurance providers to bring customers great rates and lower monthly payments. Caribou was incubated by QED Investors, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures, CMFG Ventures, FireBolt Ventures, Gaingels, and others.
Why Work With Us
We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values, which guide our work. This helps us improve life for our customers, our communities and our team members. We:
- See people as people
- Take care of each other
- Commit to the mission
- Move quickly and bravely
- Get better every day
- Seek truth
