Senior Principal/Distinguished Software Engineer
Avant is dedicated to building premier digital banking solutions for the middle class through a combination of technology, analytics and superior customer service. Since 2012, Avant has connected over 1.5 million customers to over $7.5 billion in loans and 800,000 credit cards. A high growth financial technology company, Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com for more information.
***This position can be remote anywhere in the United States***
We're looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our fast growing team! In this role, you’ll build out a world class financial services experience, tying together checking, credit, and loan products. Working within the technology organization at Avant, you'll be working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, and Compliance to help bring new features to life!
What We're Looking for at Avant:
- An Architect- You’re comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long-term business goals.
- An Influencer- You communicate well across the organization to help define technical strategies and design tactics to execute them. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision.
- Clean, Performant Code- You’re hands-on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You are passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies.
- Agile Best Practices-You like working in an agile development environment and enjoy pairing, test-driven development, leading demos with working code and slicing work in a way that focuses on the highest value.
- A Mentor- You have a passion for passing on your hard-earned experience. You disseminate knowledge and strive to level up those around you.
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- You have 12+ years of Software Engineering experience and have experience in leadership roles across the full technology stack.
- You have demonstrated organizational impact in your career by championing engineering principles like SOLID, TDD, OO design, etc.
- You have a passion for pulling others up the ladder in their technology career and sharing best practices with more junior engineers.
- Ability to collaborate well with the broader organization to include product, QA, senior leadership, compliance and other key stakeholders to your work.
- Experience building robust, highly available, and scalable web services.
- Expertise in designing and transforming architecture into a microservices driven environment
- Experience with building and deploying services in the cloud (we’re on AWS).
- Experience building consumer-facing products and a passion for using technology to improve the lives of our customers.
- Ability to debug production issues across multiple web services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Hands-on mobile development experience will be very beneficial in this role.
- Fintech industry experience is a plus!
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Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, 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.
Avant is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability or genetic information or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance.