Software Engineer, Backend (Experienced)

About Us:

At Parafin, our mission is to grow small businesses.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, yet banks do not have their back. Parafin is a technology company that builds infrastructure which enables small businesses to get easy access to financial services via platforms they sell on. Parafin's first set of products offer capital-as-a-service for online platforms. Parafin currently powers the capital programs for platforms and payment processors ranging from Series B to post-IPO companies such as DoorDash, Amazon, Worldpay, Mindbody, Fullsteam, Guesty, Xplor, and Quilt.

We are a tight-knit team coming from organizations such as Stripe, Square, Plaid, Coinbase, Robinhood, Affirm, Uber, and CERN, and are excited both about helping small businesses grow and thrive, and build products that leaders at top companies have started to use every day to grow their platforms. We are backed by prominent venture capitalists such as Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, GIC, Index Ventures, Green Oaks Capital, and SV Angel and have raised more than $94M in equity and $200M in debt.

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced platform-focused software engineer to join our Merchant Platform team in San Francisco to help build a scalable platform that will help power the suite of Parafin’s financial offerings. The Merchant Platform team owns the money movement infrastructure that powers all of Parafin as well as the suite of product-agnostic tools that enable product teams to delight the customers. You will work with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders across the company to launch several new products and regularly experiment with our existing products to improve the end-user experience. You will own our core platform and help identify, prioritize, and execute on infrastructure opportunities to accelerate product development and maintain high levels of reliability. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• You will own significant pieces of our merchant platform infrastructure and help drive new initiatives.

• You will help identify, architect, and lead infrastructure investments in our core merchant platform to accelerate product development and fortify our systems.

• You will work with stakeholders across the company to improve on our internal tooling, monitoring, alerting, and overall reliability of the system.

What We’re Searching For:

• 4+ years of experience working in a backend engineering role.

• You care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft.

• You are comfortable owning and driving the development of platform initiatives from scratch.

• You take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions accordingly.

• You have a strong grasp of engineering fundamentals.

• You are excited about working on a small team and helping us set the foundations for the company.

What We Offer

• Salary Range: $180k - $250k

• Equity grant

• Medical, dental & vision insurance

• Unlimited PTO & work from home flexibility

• Commuter benefits

• Free lunches

• Paid parental leave

• 401(k)

• Employee assistance program

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact us.