Lead Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL
Remote
3-5 Years Experience
Fintech • Financial Services
​​We’re a forward-looking fintech company helping people to escape a vicious cycle of debt and reach financial freedom.
The Role


At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care,a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 300,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

 

About The Role

You’ll work closely with our leadership team to help guide our technology and product decisions for our core back end services platform. We’re a small group that values clear communication, transparency, and collaboration. We drive progress by small iterations and reflecting on how we can best work together.

What You’ll Do

  • Drive decisions for greenfield projects that will drive the business for the next 3-5 years
  • Design and build our internal-facing API’s, asynchronous back end processing, and third-party integrations using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and AWS
  • Facilitate technical conversations with other engineers and help steer decisions in the right direction
  • Offer constructive and respectful feedback via code reviews
  • Assist other engineers in resolving or removing blockers they might encounter
  • Research and promote design patterns and practices that fit our technical challenges
  • Write automated unit and integration tests as well as build tools to assist in testing various aspects of our platform
  • Build in business and technical metrics alongside the features themselves to further us as a data-driven organization
  • Work with our devops team to ensure our CI/CD pipeline built with CircleCI, Jenkins, and AWS tooling fits our growing needs.

What We Look For

  • Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production-quality software using Ruby on Rails.
  • Expertise in building and consuming APIs
  • Strong knowledge of database design and writing SQL statements
  • Ability to troubleshoot production issues in unfamiliar code
  • Experience scoping large projects into small iterations for release
  • Clear and efficient communication skills
  • Mentorship skills and the ability to give well-crafted constructive feedback



While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

  • Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
  • Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Merit advancement opportunities
  • Career development & training

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
Chicago, IL
1,400 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Grow along with our rapidly expanding organization and help us build and serve up customized, unique technological and client service solutions! We’re pushing the boundaries of what a debt consolidation company can offer.

But our mission to uplift isn’t limited to our clients — we know our people deserve to be elevated to their highest potential through growth opportunities, a healthy work-life balance, and continued support.

Why Work With Us

Our people make a real impact — on our organization as a whole, but also on the lives of thousands of Americans. Beyond Finance offers you the chance to have your voice heard, help people, and grow in a collaborative, uplifting environment.

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Beyond Finance Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We offer a choice between hybrid, remote and in-office work models so you can be where you feel you’ll be the most productive and happy! A few times a year, we gather for in-person departmental meetups, allowing us to share progress and collaborate.

Typical time on-site: Not Specified
Chicago, IL
Needham, MA
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