Senior Software Engineer

Canopy is a fast growth early stage startup looking for a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company. You’ll get to work with other engineers to build delightful features that span various parts of the system, as well as our business, sales, and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems. You’re comfortable dealing with lots of moving pieces, have exquisite attention to detail, and are motivated in learning new technologies and systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and contribute to large-scale systems to unlock innovative lending products.
• Propose and lead technical projects that align with Canopy’s broader initiatives.
• Intimately work alongside product and operations to craft the best lending experiences possible.
• Contribute to engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Be responsible to our partners and their customers for the accuracy and effectiveness of the infrastructure, products, and tooling we provide.

Requirements

• Enjoy and have experience improving product experiences and building backend systems.
• Think about systems and services from a customer perspective and write high quality code. We work mostly in Node.js (TypeScript) and SQL and are big fans of the AWS ecosystem. However, languages can be learned; we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working with production systems.
• Prefer working collaboratively with a diverse group of people with different expertise.
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code; and do so in a way that embodies our core values.
• Be able to work autonomously and take ownership of projects from start to finish.
• Nice to have: Prior experience in Lending, Payments, or other related fintech field

Benefits

• A culture of growth – Get in now and grow with us!
• Equity as part of our competitive comp packages
• Flexible Vacation
• Paid Parental Leave Policy
• 401(k) matching
• Monthly stipends for employee wellness and food
• Excellent health, vision, and dental package
• Home office set-up package
• Yearly team offsite somewhere fun