Staff Engineer

Job Description

Hi, we are CreditBook!CreditBook is building technology that seeks to improve financial outcomes for entrepreneurs. We are excited to be at the forefront of enabling technology-enabled access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses across Pakistan.The end problem that we are solving for is that in emerging markets, a lack of access to technology at the micro and small-business level means that these businesses lack digitization for their operations and are unable to efficiently track finance flows. As a result, they are typically unable to access financing to grow their business or improve cash flows. Were passionate about solving this problem at scale for entrepreneurs.In the first 12-18 months, CreditBook has secured $11m+ USD in venture financing and has scaled its technology to tens of thousands of micro-businesses across Pakistan. Our success has been backed by leading investors from around the world, including Tiger Global, Firstminute Capital, Quiet Capital, and Better Tomorrow Ventures.Today, CreditBook provides fast, accessible lending services in MENAP. CreditBook offers a product suite that enables businesses to seamlessly integrate with its platform through APIs and SDKs ? simplifying compliance, risk management, financial operations, and the supply of capital. Since mid-2023, the companys revenues have grown by 4x to $650k.We are keen to partner with curious individuals, passionate about solving for this problem with us. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply today!How you?ll make an impactAs a Staff Engineer, you?ll play a pivotal role in driving fintech engineering solutions in collaboration with other Staff, Senior and Associate Engineers. You?ll manage engineers to oversee the design, development and implementation of features and systems guided by the product roadmap.

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and inspire a team of engineers, holding them to high standards of excellence while providing hands-on support and knowledge-sharing.
• Hiring: Partner with the People team to facilitate hiring of further engineers as the team grows, maintaining a high talent bar to sustain a strong culture at CreditBook.
• Own people management responsibilities: Setting clear goals, providing appreciative and constructive feedback, scaling culture, running performance check-ins and managing growth for your team.
• Drive code improvements: Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and code quality.
• Drive optimizations: Conduct performance tuning and optimization exercises to ensure the application can handle increasing user loads and maintain high responsiveness.
• Systems: Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and efficient backend systems and frontend user experiences.
• Collaboration with other engineering teams, product managers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements, translate them into technical solutions and ensure seamless integration of systems with other components of the platform.
• Staying hands-on:
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code as per the set coding standards.
  • Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, API specifications, and user guides to facilitate seamless collaboration within and outside the team.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks, providing timely support to maintain system uptime and user satisfaction.
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement visually appealing and user-friendly frontend interfaces that align with the overall product vision.

What we?d love to see

• Expertise equivalent to at least 6-8 years of relevant experience. Experience in fintech would offer a strong edge.
• Strong people skills, indicating clear potential to lead a team.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or other relevant field.
• Proficient in utilizing the Node.js ecosystem to develop scalable and efficient backend systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in building frontend applications using React/Next.js.
• Sound understanding of source control tools, such as Git, to manage and track code changes effectively.
• Well-versed in working with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Redis to handle data storage and retrieval efficiently.
• Experience in successfully developing and launching software products in a professional environment.
• Structured thinking and communication.
• A mission-driven, high ownership and intellectually-curious approach to be able to drive fronts autonomously.

What we offer (Benefits & Compensation)

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health Insurance benefits
• Remote-first culture -- work when you want, how you want (on-site or remote or both)!
• Unlimited total paid leaves
• Engaging culture with company-wide weekly updates about business metrics and customer stories
• Yearly training sponsorship budget for teammates
• A feedback-heavy culture consisting of quarterly feedback cycles and regular 1:1 check-ins with ones manager
• Internal and external masterclasses from individuals at renowned global organizations
• Free lunch at the office on Tuesdays!
• Exposure to a multicultural team, spread across three continents

Just So You KnowCreditBook is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strictly prohibits discrimination of any kind. We believe that great ideas come through broad exposure, diversity and healthy debate. We are committed to building the best team possible and all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual potential and qualifications, without regard to race, color, age, religion, socioeconomic status, orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability.We feel excited about learning from one another and getting unique, thoughtful, bold opinions -- were excited for yours!If you?re still nodding your head in agreement and this seems like a good fit, apply away? we?re looking for you!

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