Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

ABOUT HAPPY MONEY 

Happy Money is a leading consumer finance company dedicated to helping people achieve their goals through responsible lending. Through its fully-digital platform, Happy Money partners with credit unions, banks and asset managers to originate high-quality credit solutions, diversify their portfolios and expand their impact and reach nationwide. 

Backed by investors like TruStage Ventures, Happy Money enables financial institutions to grow as a force for good in their communities while helping people use money as a tool for their happiness. Together with their community-focused capital partner network, Happy Money has originated over $6 billion in loans representing more than 300,000 members who have taken greater control of their financial futures. Learn more at happymoney.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Happy Money’s Engineering team is seeking to hire a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to design, build, deploy, and own consumer applications, infrastructure, and data-delivering products and services in support of Happy Money’s lending business.  You will work in an autonomous environment, and be able to take general direction and formulate specific tasks to accomplish the desired results for Happy Money Customers. You have a strong sense of product ownership and a customer mindset. You will work to contribute to complex functional specs and design docs when necessary.

• Develop and build products that provide an exceptional customer experience for our members. 
• Own design, test, development and delivery of new and existing features. 
• Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, business owners, and other engineers to identify the best solutions.
• Demonstrates understanding of tradeoffs inherent in software design.
• Capable of working in isolation to design solutions to complex problems.
• Design and develop maintainable, scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient systems.
• Upholding code quality to ensure features are up to standards to deliver a quality product.
• Prioritize team needs in technical debt and tooling to relieve operational load and evolve the system to meet the changing needs of the environment.
• Bring positive energy into meetings and ensure all coworkers feel valued and included in every interaction.
• Mentor other frontend engineers across the Engineering team.
• Demonstrate a proactive mindset by defaulting to action, taking initiative to address challenges, and driving projects forward.

• 5+ years of professional experience in web development with React.
• 7+ years experience as a software engineer developing solutions for systems at scale. 
• You have production experience developing in ReactJS, CSS, GraphQL, Angular, Javascript, NodeJS, and are a polyglot with working knowledge of Python, Java, and the ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly.
• Delivering a product across the entire technology stack motivates you more than working in an individual silo of frontend or backend, but you have a stronger affinity and experience building frontend user interfaces and UI based SDKs for other developers.
• Believe strongly in testing everything you design and develop using automation. 
• Ability to scope, scale, and prioritize tasks to help team project plan and deliver on their milestones, delivering results over clear and ambiguous business and technical projects.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You are results-oriented, and know how to unblock yourself and others to achieve goals and objectives. 
• Familiarity with AWS technologies - EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
• You have production experience developing scalable/highly available consumer applications. 
• You have a BA/Master degree in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent work experience.

• Experience with financial services systems.
• Hands-on experience with ReactJS, Angular, NodeJS.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one SQL and one NoSQL variant, i.e. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Experience using tools like LaunchDarkly, Fullstory or similars for A/B testing and analytics.
• Experience in designing and deploying systems to AWS.

• Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance options 401k Plan with a matching contribution 
• Flexible PTO
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Monthly Health and Wellness Days
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Company-paid short & long term disability and life insurance
• Happy Home Allowance to contribute to your home office workspace
• Monthly tech stipend to help cover expenses for remote work
• Happy Money is a 100% fully distributed workforce

Happy Money is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Happy Money is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email peopleops@happymoney.com.