Pomelo is on a mission to improve the lives of immigrants and their loved ones abroad by extending the U.S. credit system internationally. We are proud to be the first fintech company to combine international money transfer and credit, making money transfers refreshingly free, fast, and secure.
As an early-stage start-up, we are building a product that rethinks what money transfer can do for people, existing at the intersection of family, personal finance, consumer credit, and global remittances.
We’re a team of ~30 and are growing our San Francisco headquarters. Our investors include Keith Rabois of Founders Fund (CEO at Opendoor, former COO of Square), Kevin Hartz (Co-founder/CEO of Xoom), The Chainsmokers, The Weeknd, and more.
The Role
As a senior engineer, you’ll be a technical expert working on and solving various backend challenges. This role requires both architecture and coding expertise, and will act as a technical mentor for other team members.
Our Backend Team has a range of projects they work on, and is responsible for solving core platform problems. This involves areas including money, transactions, fraud, and risk. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of backend engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.). The ideal candidate will also be able to operate both at a high level (strategy) and get into the details (hands-on coding, coding reviews, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Design and implement technical solutions for various backend engineering projects
- Collaborate on our technical vision and help drive the implementation of complex projects
- Collaborate on ways to continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems to allow us to scale the code base, drive productivity, and develop the team
- Drive effective collaboration between backend engineering and other engineering teams, product, and cross-functional colleagues
- Connect overall needs of the business with short and long-term technical requirements
Required Qualifications
- Typically 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with a complex code base
- Strong programming skills in at least one backend coding language (Java, Rust, Python, or similar). Our current tech stack includes:
- Backend: Java 17, AWS, Python, Lambda
- Frontend: React, React Native, Typescript
Pomelo takes a market-based approach to compensation, offering equity and a base salary as part of the compensation package. The estimated base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $190,000 per year. Exact compensation may differ from this range and depends on the candidate’s experience, domain expertise, and interview performance.
Benefits And Perks
- A meaningful mission and an opportunity for direct social impact. We’re putting real money back in the hands of the people who need it most and helping immigrants and their families realize the American dream.
- An amazing team and culture. You’ll have peers from both top tech companies (e.g. Google, Twitter, Microsoft) and other successful startups (e.g. Affirm, Remitly, MemSQL). We empower each other to do great work and continue growing.
- Opportunity for major impact, learning, and growth.
- Platinum-level health insurance (medical, dental, vision) — with 100% covered by the company for you and 50% for dependents.
- PTO: 3 weeks in your first year, 4 weeks thereafter, plus national holidays
- $1,500 annual travel stipend
- $300 annual wellness stipend
- $500 home office setup stipend
- Twice-a-year company retreats. Previous trips include skiing in Park City and getting sun and surf in Cabo, Mexico.