Software Engineer

NinjaHoldings; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

401(k) with matching

Paid Family Leave

Annual Wellness & WFH subsidies

Employee Referral Program

Remote-first culture with downtown <b>

Job summary

NinjaHoldings in Chicago is seeking a backend Software Engineer to build and improve our digital banking and analytics platforms. You will work with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and refactor services, integrate with external systems, and drive performance improvements.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in backend web app development with Ruby on Rails, plus SQL and data-model design experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong Ruby on Rails experience; Hotwire Turbo/Stimulus and Tailwind are a plus.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable software.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop or modify backend software with attention to service architecture.
• Analyze user needs and determine implementation approach.
• Translate requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Lead design and code reviews.
• Contribute to engineering roadmap discussions.

Skills

Backend development

Critical thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Hotwire Turbo/Stimulus

Tailwind

SQL

Job description

Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings works to give everyday Americans better access to financial services than traditional institutions typically provide. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we offer digital banking and lending products designed for consumers often overlooked, paired with incentives that support long-term financial improvement. Our Edge brand extends this expertise to other companies, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. Headquartered in Chicago with a distributed global workforce, we are a lean, growing organization committed to advancing consumer finance in the US.

Job Summary

The Software Engineer will be responsible for building new systems, enhancing and refactoring existing systems, integrating with external systems, and performance projects. This person will work with the existing team of developers, QA and Product Managers to design and implement features, have input on roadmaps and bring prior experience to ensure a world class product. You will work closely with your technical lead to shape the overall Engineering vision and roadmap.

This person has built systems from the ground up and had to deal with bad design assumptions and scaling issues. The right candidate has developed good design instincts through a mix of seeing 'what not to do' as well as being a 'student' of good design.

You'll be part of a team that works in one of the following areas.

• Customer Communication - how we communicate with our customers & potential customers. I.e. email, sms, snail mail
• Identity - managing customer and potential customer information
• Decisions - Decision systems for bidding on marketing leads and automatically making underwriting decisions.
• Portfolio Management - Systems responsible for managing the life cycle of our lending and banking products such as integrations to external payment processing systems

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop or modify software and/or software systems and also taking the service architecture into consideration
• Analyze user needs to determine how software should be built or if existing software should be modified
• Translate business requirements and specifications into usable and scalable software
• Lead design and code reviews
• Participate in discussions about the team’s future vision and strategy

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• 3+ years of professional experience as a backend software engineer for non-trivial web applications
• 3+ years of Ruby on Rails, bonus point for Hotwire Turbo/Stimulus + Tailwind experience
• Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and takes into account business goals into their technical decisions
• Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables
• Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions
• Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues
• Extensive experience with data model design for relational databases

Additional Pluses:

• Extensive experience using SQL to investigate non-trivial issues or to create complex reporting
• Strong experience on the Frontend or the infrastructure (DevOps)
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Health Benefits with generous medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• Annual Wellness & WFH subsidies
• Employee Referral Program
• Remote first culture with convenient downtown office in the heart of the city