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Committed to DEI&B - Mogul Diversity Badge, 2022

Great Place to Work Certified, August 2022 - August 2023 USA

Overview

SmartBiz is on a mission to transform small business banking. SmartBiz is the leading technology-powered small business financing platform equipping entrepreneurs with access to the right capital at the right time. To date, we’ve connected borrowers with more than $9 billion in funding while increasing efficiency for our network of banks and trusted lending partners. More than 230,000 entrepreneurs have utilized our platform to access the funding they need to grow, with 60%+ of loans made to minority, women, or veteran-owned businesses.

Position Overview

Technology is the heart of what we do at SmartBiz and the platform provides the critical foundation for our products.

Our Platform Team is where we innovate and impact how underwriting has traditionally been done, how a bank processes a loan, reviews a credit file, and how calculations are done on risk/credit worthiness.

Where others see complexity, you see elegant and scalable services. You know how to juggle the ask of multiple consumers, working closely with product and architecture, to deliver on the needs of the business (and small businesses and banks).

How You Will Make An Impact:

Coach, Manage, and Develop the Platform team to deliver on key infrastructure for the product roadmap
Drive the technical health of the platform components
Own the architecture strategy and roadmap and ensure the teams are operating at the forefront of the best practices for SmartBiz
Act as a thought partner to leadership and colleagues across engineering and product and translate strategy into execution and delivery
Deliver highly observable services using distributed tracing, logging, and metric collection

Who You Are:

2+ years experience leading Platforms-focused engineering teams
Ability to build strong teams via hiring, balancing the needs of the team now and into the future
Excellent communication skills to partner with other engineering teams, product and the rest of the business
Strong technical experience with focus in Python microservices enabling the ability to roll up their sleeves as needed
Ability to define and continuously improve the architecture of cloud-based microservices, event-driven applications and integrations with external applications and partners
Ability to define the longer term technical strategy around scalable service platforms, APIs, SDKs, etc.

Opportunities & Benefits We Will Provide:

Help redefine small business banking
Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
100% paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their domestic partners and dependents
100% paid life and disability insurance
Flexible vacation policy
401k plan

More About SmartBiz:

60% + of the loans funded by our banks are for women-owned, minority, or veteran businesses
Great Place to Work Certified, August 2022 - September 2024 USA
Committed to DEI&B - Mogul Diversity Badge, 2022
2021 Top Small Business Lending Platform Award by LendIt Fintech
American Banker's Best Places to Work in Financial Technology in 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Rated "excellent" by TrustPilot review website
The company has raised $47 million in venture funding. Investors include Venrock, Investor Growth Capital, and First Round Capital.

SmartBiz Loans is an Equal Opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers without regard to any status protected by applicable law.

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