(Senior) Software Engineer

Edquity is an anti-poverty technology company that helps colleges improve students' basic needs and financial security by increasing access to emergency resources and funding. To help students, including the 3 million who drop out every year due to a time sensitive financial crisis, Edquity provides partner colleges with a mobile app and web platform that helps students overcome financial emergencies. With Edquity, students can apply for emergency cash grants, discover emergency resources, and more.

In the wake of COVID-19, students and partners need Edquity more than ever, as Congress has provided $32 billion in emergency aid. Edquity is quickly scaling to ensure it can administer hundreds of millions of dollars to support millions of students during this crisis.

Edquity has raised over $6.5MM in funding from some of the leading impact and postsecondary success investors and has also received support from foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Job Overview:

Edquity is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about enhancing financial stability and social mobility in higher education and improving college graduation rates for low and middle-income students.

The Senior Software Engineer will utilize modern architecture and technology in a collaborative environment and should have a keen interest in System Design and Architecture to quickly identify improvements and implement them. The Senior Software Engineer should work towards a vision beyond the daily tasks with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and appreciate autonomous responsibility.

This role is full-stack; the Engineer will participate in building and maintaining backend services, optimizing query performance and cost, and use cutting edge frontend technologies to create an incredible user experience.

What you will do:

• Work with designers, product managers, QA engineers and other developers in a highly collaborative agile environment.
• Build our products out further by improving performance of our codebase and handling scaling issues to accommodate user growth, as well as writing rigorous and thorough tests to ensure code stability.
• Create new products and features to match business needs, while maintaining our current product and keeping technical debt to a minimum.
• Digest and distill technical problems and propose and execute creative technical solutions.
• Review code, identify technical priorities, and system design trade-offs
• Build for scale, availability, performance, and security across the stack.

What you should have:

• 4+ years professional Javascript experience (Node, React, etc.)
• Experience working in AWS
• Git: Professional experience with version control
• SQL: Experience building data models and writing complex SQL queries
• Experience building/maintaining web apps in production, and testing front and backend code and TDD
• A strong work ethic: ability to be self motivated and take ownership over tasks
• A strong belief in equity and a desire to reduce structural inequality
• Nice to haves:
• A passion for startups, working with small teams, and scaling them
• Experience in developing algorithms
• Experience working in microservices or breaking up a monolithic API into microservices
• Experience working with large datasets and have the ability to manipulate them to achieve business needs
• Knowledge in other programming languages (Golang, C#, etc)

Benefits:

• Fully Paid Health Insurance (Medical/Vision/Dental)
• Unlimited PTO
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Generous Parental Leave Benefits
• 401k matching
• Professional Development Stipend
• Potential for Equity
• Many others!

Edquity provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Before you apply, please check if any restrictions apply in terms of time zone or country.

This job has a geo-restriction in place: USA Only.