Company Description
Acclaimed as one of the COOLEST companies in San Diego by the San Diego Venture Group, LoanHero is an innovative, venture-backed, financial technology company with an experienced team, headquartered right here in San Diego. LoanHero’s disruptive lending platform solves a multi-billion dollar problem. Our mission is to provide the best financing option for the consumer, merchant, and lender at the point of sale. Our strategy allows LoanHero to offer the most competitive loan products available for all levels of credit, allowing us to be Heroes to the customers we serve. In just a short time, LoanHero’s concept has gained significant traction among investors and large nontraditional lenders as well as among merchants who have validated our business strategy. The company is poised to be the newest innovation merging marketplace lending and consumer finance.
LoanHero is looking for a Sr. Software Developer to join our platform software team and be a part of our rapid growth in the exciting FinTech industry.
Job Description
The Sr. Software engineer owns the complete back end software of our technology platform. You will be responsible for all stages of the software development life cycle in an agile team and deliver innovative solutions to business by collaborating directly with business and product team leaders. You will be a subject matter expert on Ruby and Rails based back end framework and the Restful platform APIs. We’re looking for a creative problem solver who understands what it takes to build a robust, scalable and secure web platform and is passionate about software, loves working in a fast-paced startup environment, is people oriented and is excited about joining our growing team.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deliver back end components for the technology platform
- Collaborate with IT and Product leadership in evolving the next generation of the platform
- Own the evolution of the Restful APIs for the platform
- Implement integrations with external data providers and lenders leveraging their APIs
- Take leadership in adoption of leading edge web technology initiatives such as SOA, business process automation, test driven development and continuous integration principles.
- Provide mentorship and technical direction to other team members
- Be a subject matter expert on Ruby and Rails and all back end aspects of the technology
- Champion a culture of quality and proactive in solving issues
- Actively work with IT leadership in implementing continuous process improvements
- Bachelors in computer science or equivalent. A Masters degree is preferred.
- 3 years of web software development
- At least 1 year of Ruby on Rails experience
- Good understanding of ORM (Rails Active Record), Restful APIs (JSON), integration techniques with 3rd party web systems
- Development experience with a relational database, preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Exposure to open source technologies and UI frameworks (such as AngularJS)
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast paced, cross-functional and agile setting
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Understanding of finance and lending industry is a plus
- Exposure to cloud development platforms such as Amazon AWS is a plus
- Demonstrable experience in solving challenging problems
- Exposure to latest trends in software engineering such as SOA, TDD, Continuous Integration, automated test frameworks is a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Desired Skills, Experience
- Bachelors in computer science or equivalent. A Masters degree is preferred.
- 3 years of web software development
- At least 1 year of Ruby on Rails experience
- Good understanding of ORM (Rails Active Record), Restful APIs (JSON), integration techniques with 3rd party web systems
- Development experience with a relational database, preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Exposure to open source technologies and UI frameworks (such as AngularJS)
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast paced, cross-functional and agile setting
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Understanding of finance and lending industry is a plus
- Exposure to cloud development platforms such as Amazon AWS is a plus
- Demonstrable experience in solving challenging problems
- Exposure to latest trends in software engineering such as SOA, TDD, Continuous Integration, automated test frameworks is a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
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