Job Application for Senior Full Stack Engineer at SmartBiz Bank

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Great Place to Work Certified, October 2024 - October 2025 USA

Overview

Evolving from SmartBiz Loans, a leading provider of small business loans, SmartBiz Bank offers a broad range of business banking solutions to small businesses across the U.S. – solutions built specifically to serve the dynamic needs of entrepreneurs and foster the growth of the small business community. SmartBiz Bank’s commitment to transparency and personalized customer service offers an unparalleled banking experience, ensuring small businesses have the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, we are excited about serving our local and national Small Business Community.

Position Overview

Technology is the heart of what we do at SmartBiz and the Applications team builds and maintains the solutions that serve our customers, partners and internal users.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team. You will embrace the challenge of understanding our business, the existing products and code, while having an eye for how to deliver new features (or refactor existing ones) with a commitment to scalable, maintainable, and extensible architecture.

You are able to understand business needs and solution features against those needs; you are able to design your solution, working closely with the Tech Lead(s) and Architecture teams. You are able to guide junior developers in helping to deliver those features in a clean and timely manner.

How You Will Make An Impact:

Immediately increase the velocity and output of the Applications team by building and delivering features that enable many groups within our org.
Consistently contribute to high-quality releases every 2 weeks according to plan, working in Ruby, Python and React and deployed on AWS.
Eliminating technical debt and prioritizing tech refresh efforts where possible, while not compromising roadmap commitments.
Providing great quality through high test coverage and detailed documentation.
Helping other team members through design and code reviews and feedback.

What We Are Looking For:

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field
5+ years experience in a full stack development role
Expertise in Ruby
Proficiency or an interest in learning Python
A passion for clean design, quality, reliability, security, scalability
A proven history of owning issues and driving them to completion
Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and ownership
Someone who raises the bar and makes peers better, leading by example
A great team player that shows humility, listens to feedback, and is unafraid to share their point of view

Opportunities & Benefits We Will Provide:

Help redefine small business banking
Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
100% paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their domestic partners and dependents
100% paid life and disability insurance
Flexible vacation policy
401k plan

More About SmartBiz Bank:

60% + of the loans funded by our banks are for women-owned, minority, or veteran businesses
Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 - 2025
American Banker's Best Places to Work in Financial Technology in 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Rated "excellent" by TrustPilot review website
The company has raised $47 million in venture funding. Investors include Venrock, Investor Growth Capital, and First Round Capital.

SmartBiz Bank is an Equal Opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers without regard to any status protected by applicable law.

California residents can learn more about how we use your information by visiting https://sites.google.com/view/smartbizloans-employment-ccpa

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

Great Place to Work Certified, October 2024 - October 2025 USA

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