Platform Software Engineer
Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to create and enhance their digital credit offerings. Built by lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years—with a suite of proven product modules for credit decisioning, fraud prevention, account verifications, servicing engines and CRM solutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting & analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million US customers. Visit www.amount.com for more information.
What you do at Avant:
- Work with other engineers to develop cutting edge tools used by internal and external business users and other engineers
- Code mostly in Ruby but also be responsible for everything from AWS infrastructure to database tooling to UI development. We want strong programmers, and our interview process is unbiased and language agnostic
- Take full ownership of your projects from start to finish, requirements gathering to monitoring in production
- We have a culture that treats engineers as both teachers and students, and encourage this by spreading knowledge through code-reviews, presenting Lunch-and-Learns, and designing new architectures together as a team
What you might own at Avant:
- Business process automation tools. Our business users also write code and we enable them to do so efficiently and safely.
- SDLC automation and CLI tools for engineers
- Internal portal applications that are used by engineers, internal business users, and employees of our bank partners
- Data security tools and processes (encryption standards, data anonymization, etc.)
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- You’re a pragmatic generalist programmer who will not only help execute, but also will provide a strong voice for technological direction of systems at Amount
- You enjoy working close to the infrastructure and love variety
- You believe in following best practices and doing things the “right” way
- You’re entrepreneurial, self-driven, and takes pride in improving our users’ experiences
- You have strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and coding/testing best practices
- You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts and enjoys working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
- You like communicating directly with business units from all over the company to ensure you understand and can best handle the pain points and the wide range of stakeholders needs
Why Amount is a fit for you:
At Amount, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.