Software Engineer, Underwriting

Posted 4 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA
160K-210K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Professional Services
Finix offers everything SaaS companies need to build a world-class payments experience.
The Role
Join Finix as a Software Engineer focused on underwriting, ensuring an unbiased merchant underwriting process. Responsibilities include creating quality code, understanding sensitive financial data, actively improving the product and culture, and leading system design. Must have 4+ years of experience in Java development and strong communication skills.
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About Us

Move money. Make money. Finix processes billions of dollars every year for leading SaaS, marketplace, and e-commerce platforms. With one developer-friendly API, Finix helps companies accept payments, manage payouts, and onboard merchants—everything you need to enable payment processing, and grow revenue.

Finix has raised over $100M from American Express Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Inspired Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Visa, and others.


About the Role:


When Finix services fail, human beings are not getting their money they need to survive. There is no room for failure or inaccuracy. 


You would be joining the team delivering the latest exciting Finix initiative: Underwriting. Underwriting is the process of determining which merchants are permitted to use the Finix platform.


The Underwriting Team's charter is to deliver an underwriting system that is an unbiased, automated merchant underwriting process, minimizes the opportunity for fraudulent merchants, and is easy for customers, the Finix support team, and the Finix customer success team to use.

You Will:

  • Create quality code and associated tests that eliminate stress in other teams and our customers
  • Ensure that the merchant underwriting process is unbiased
  • Understand and demonstrate the importance of handling sensitive financial data about fellow humans
  • An eagerness to actively improve the product and culture
  • Compassionately assist other team members to improve and be open about asking for assistance

You Are:

  • Comfortable continuously delivering code, infrastructure, and tests throughout the product development lifecycle. 
  • Able to lead proposals, design, and architect big systems through research into use cases 
  • Obsessed with finding edge cases, understanding requirements, and design implications 
  • Proactive in monitoring running systems and troubleshooting production issues
  • Committed to communicating and working cross-functionally with other teams to ensure the delivery of quality code and features

You Have:

  • Have 4+ years of experience and several life-cycles of designing and building systems using Java
  • An appreciation for code, maintainability, testability, and clarity
  • A depth of experience along with a strong sense of what is readable, maintainable code
  • Good communication skills with non-technical fellow Finixians and customers

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Finix is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.


Role: Software Engineer IV

Level: IC4

Location: San Francisco, CA

Base Salary Range: $160,000/yr to $210,000/yr + equity + benefits


Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at our headquarters in San Francisco, California. Individual pay is determined by work location, job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
156 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Finix is on a mission to create the most accessible financial services ecosystem in history. To do so, we are building the global operating system for fintech, starting with payments.

Since 2015, we’ve been busy creating a payments management solution specifically for SaaS platforms—from startups to publicly traded companies—that want to earn more revenue, reduce churn, and delight customers.

With one developer-friendly API, Finix helps companies accept payments, manage payouts, and onboard merchants—all in the same place. Finix offers everything SaaS companies need to build a world-class payments solution.

Why Work With Us

Our diverse team of fintech professionals is dedicated to building accessible payments tools that democratize financial access. From employee development to customer success, we believe in the campsite rule—“leave it better than you found it”—ensuring every client and Finixian is better after working with us.

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