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Searching for a mission-delusional engineer to join and learn from a high velocity, high impact team focused on building wealth and financial well-being for frontline workers.
- If you love to… *
- Build a product that’s “mission-delusional”, as we like to call it
- Learn continuously and take initiative.
- Problem-solve, discovering existing solutions to new problems.
- Iterate based on feedback from real people.
- Explore new technologies and methodologies to serve our Savers.
- Collaborate, workshop with teammates.
- Celebrate small and big wins.
Then, we can guarantee you’ll have an opportunity at Sunny Day Fund to:
- Challenge yourself each day as you design and build together the future of savings.
- Earn the experience you’ll lean on as you build a successful career and company.
- Grow alongside passionate, talented colleagues
Our journey as a startup isn’t easy or fixed, but at the end of each day, you’ll feel proud knowing that you’re building innovative products that meaningfully impact the lives of American workers and empower them with the right tools to improve their financial well-being.
That’s what we love to do at Sunny Day Fund!
The Ideal Candidate
- Ready with the right experience, expertise, and personal drive to be a core engineer at a rapidly growing fintech with a big vision
- Be able to solution features and capabilities within the platform, with good code quality and velocity.
- Be prepared to take on responsibilities such as implementing integrations with third-party systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, designing and developing APIs, and contributing to system improvements.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code - and participate in code reviews
- Actively participate and lead in daily team activities, providing your valuable insights
- Design and develop APIs, both for internal and external use, to streamline inter-system access while upholding the highest standards of security
- Collaborate proactively with cross-functional teams, including Product, QA, and Customer Success, tracking progress on team boards
- Conduct quality code reviews of fellow engineers’ requests, learning what others are doing while enabling the team to accomplish the goal at hand
- Conduct unit, system, and security testing, identifying risks and proposing mitigation strategies in collaboration with team members
- Engage with end users and customers to gather feedback and iterate on product enhancements
- Uphold code integrity and data security standards, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information
- Requirements *
Must Have
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 3-5 years of experience as a software engineer
- 5+ years of experience in application architecture, design, and development, particularly with Node.js frameworks (NestJS, Express JS, etc.).
- 3+ years of experience in developing client-facing front-end applications using a modern web framework, Angular preferred.
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres
- Familiarity and experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and Build Systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AWS DevSecOps processes, knowledge of OWASP Top 10, and experience with SOC2 Compliance.
- Experience designing and building event-driven services using Amazon Web Services.
- Experience with a headless CMS, specifically Strapi. Experience working at a start-up.
- Domain Knowledge:
- HR tech, along with experience in HCM data models and integrations with payroll and HCM systems (ADP, UKG, Workday).
- Fintech, experience with core banking and fintech concepts such as Banking as a Service (BaaS), integrations and payments.
Qualitative Characteristics
- Mission-driven
- Contributes to a culture of belonging
- Constant student that’s also willing to be a teacher to others on the team
- System thinker that understands the value of “the little things”
- Capable of communicating the stakeholder value of a feature beyond its pure functionality
Location: Remote Working from:
- US – Virginia State, ideally Richmond, VA or Northern Virginia
Sunny Day Fund Overview
Sunny Day Fund™ is a venture-backed company on a mission to enable better financial well-being for ALL 152M American workers, starting with employer-rewarded emergency savings. And we invite you to join our mission.
Our Values
- Respect –Mutual respect powers mutual success
- Collaboration – Brighter Together
- Urgency – Our Impact Can’t Wait
- Resilience – Tenacity to Bend, Not Break
- Kaizen - “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough
- Data-Driven – The Journey to Happiness Can Be Measured
- Transparency – Let's Be Clear
Compensation
- $80k-$100k (USD) Base Salary
- Competitive equity (Restricted Stock Awards, which are better than options!)
- Company milestone-driven bonuses
Benefits
- Remote working
- Sunny Day Fund - our own workplace emergency and personal savings program with up to $2,000 of cash rewards - no restrictions or penalties to withdraw!
- Health, dental, and vision insurance reimbursement (QSEHRA) - fully covers Silver plans and 80%+ of Gold plans
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k)
- Schedules flexible outside of outcomes and standups
- Team events and outings
Note: Due to the sensitive nature of our data, we are looking for full-time US-based employees to join our team. We are not seeking contractors or recruiters.