Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Hummingbird, a remote-first company fighting financial crime, as a Senior Software Engineer. You'll build and scale high-volume, data-intensive web applications using technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS. This role requires 4+ years of experience in web application development, preferably with startup experience and a passion for building meaningful products. You'll collaborate with a small, experienced team, tackling challenges in a high-security environment and influencing product strategy. Hummingbird offers competitive compensation, equity, remote work flexibility, excellent benefits, and opportunities for growth.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building web applications, preferably with some startup experience
• Experience building transaction monitoring tools, or similarly high-volume, data-intensive products
• You love building web applications and want to work on something meaningful
• You sail through ambiguity and enjoy exploring product ideas that anticipate scaling challenges
• Iteration is part of the fun. You’re not married to specific ideas or solutions
• Design is important to you
• You want your impact to go beyond the lines of code you write
• Safety first. You care about quality, testing, and security, recognizing that these are essential foundations for scalable systems
• You like digging deeply into new technologies, new domains, or new ideas
• You want to build something exceptionally valuable and have real impact on the world. You're excited to get your hands dirty in pursuit of that goal

Responsibilities

• Write code to fight financial crime: First and foremost, our software engineers use their skills to serve our shared mission. You'll build easy-to-use tools that help our customers utilize data and leverage automations to identify and address suspicious activities
• Build highly scalable, performant products: You'll play an outsized role in architecting and delivering solutions that scale to seamlessly handle high data volumes and complex workflows. You'll focus on building resilient, efficient, and maintainable systems to support our user's needs
• Work with a small, passionate, and experienced team: We're a small team of mostly senior engineers and we love to do great work together. We're fully remote, but we make a strong effort to prioritize, design, and code collaboratively
• Tackle the challenges of working in a high-security, high-stakes environment: We work with some of the most sensitive data you can imagine and provide a critical service to our customers. Security, reliability, and correctness must always come first
• Influence the product roadmap and strategy: Great ideas come from everywhere. Everyone on the team has a voice in strategy discussions and is trusted to make significant decisions
• Have the opportunity to grow into leadership: Hummingbird is growing rapidly. As we do, there will be opportunities for engineers to take on new roles in product, technology, or people leadership positions

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the financial sector, especially around compliance or fraud

Benefits

• The chance to help build from the ground up. The hires we’re making now are foundational to our growth as a company, so you will have an opportunity to help shape the future of Hummingbird
• Competitive compensation including cash and equity
• Remote-first, fully distributed company with flexible working hours
• Awesome health, vision & dental benefits, and 401k
• Safe, respectful & comfortable work environment with colleagues and leadership who prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging