Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Settle's dynamic Product Engineering team as an early Software Engineer and contribute to building impactful systems, products, and features. With a strong product-market fit, organic growth, and clear long-term roadmap, you'll be part of driving Settle's success.

Requirements

• 6+ years of industry experience, preferably in the B2B fintech and/or startup sector
• A strong understanding of scaling infrastructure, designing technical architecture, and building APIs
• Technical requirements: Proficiency in CS fundamentals, a willingness to learn Ruby on Rails (our primary backend language), and mastery of OOP principles. Familiarity with an ORM framework, such as Django or Hibernate, is also preferred
• Experience designing scalable systems that not only meet growing customer demand but also support internal applications and seamless third-party integrations
• Experience building microservices with a thoughtful and strategic approach, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and resilience
• Web-app architecture design. You have curiosity or understanding of how everything fits together from web services up through display and love designing reliable and extensible systems
• Adaptability. We’re a startup, and project needs can change quickly. You love to jump into a new problem, learn what’s needed, and solve it
• Customer-centric mentality. You care about the user, strive to understand their needs, and build tools to solve their problems
• Leadership. With rapid growth, we need and expect everyone to be a leader. You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown while holding yourself and others to a high bar. Additionally, you enjoy mentoring and fostering the development of fellow engineers
• Startup mentality. Demonstrated ability to be resourceful and thrive in dynamic, rapidly evolving environments

Responsibilities

• Build scalable and reliable third-party integrations by developing APIs and systems that connect smoothly and securely
• Architect extensible data models, services, and APIs to power customer-facing features and ensure a seamless user experience
• Optimize existing systems and infrastructure to support growing users, features, partners, and engineers
• Ensure seamless communication and effective collaboration with Product and Design teams in developing customer/user-facing functionality for our app
• Mentor and support the development of team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the engineering team
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to build reliable testing, integration, and deployment frameworks
• Independently drive projects to completion while effectively communicating progress and challenges to technical and non-technical colleagues

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible and remote work culture
• Competitive compensation and equity
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Lunch & commute reimbursement when working in the NYC office located near Union Square
• $500 home office set up reimbursement
• $2500 annual growth and development stipend
• $50 monthly food delivery gift card
• 401k
• Brex company card
• HSA/FSA
• WeWork membership
• ERG groups e.g. LGBTQIA+, Women @ Settle, and more!
• Employee Referral Program
• Team building events