Who is Credible?
We are a marketplace where users can compare personalized, prequalified rates and quotes from multiple lenders and carriers, for student loans, mortgages, personal loans, and insurance.
We’re challenging the status quo by giving power to the consumer. We believe in a world where ‘ethical’, ‘lending’, and ‘insurance’ can coexist, so we set out to build innovative platforms that actually work for customers. Our mission is to help people find the best loan or insurance policy possible.
We believe researching and buying loans or insurance shouldn’t be confusing or complex, so we’ve focused on simplicity. We’ve created the only unbiased loan and insurance buying process out there, which makes finding options straightforward and clear.
About the Role:
The new hire will be working on our application platform team. This team supports our product engineering teams by supporting central platform systems (e.g. user authentication, disclosures/consent management), building/maintaining shared code libraries used across our systems (e.g. Kafka clients, GraphQL APIs, logging), improving development/release processes, and providing support and guidance on complex projects.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain central platform services
- Build and maintain shared code libraries in Ruby and Javascript
- Maintain and evolve our microservice architecture, including Kafka and GraphQL APIs
- Design and build improvements to our development processes, including testing strategy
- Support and troubleshoot production systems
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating, analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions;
- Participating in the code reviews and design discussions with other engineers;
- Have a strong sense of end to end ownership;
- Adhere to key principles: Code and design for best performance, scalability and resiliency;
- Participate in Agile planning and standup meetings;
- Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software;
- Be a self-starter, capable of solving ambiguous and challenging technical problems with wide scope;
- Deliver trustworthy solutions for engineers allowing them to focus on experimentation, evolution, and delivery of high-quality features;
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions;
- Backend development including design, documentation, implementation, and testing;
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience;
- Understand data structure and distributed system microservice concepts
- 5-7 years of software development experience (from customer requirements -> functional spec -> design -> development/testing -> deployment and monitoring);
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
- 3+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable, production-quality services at cloud-scale with AWS platform and Kubernetes;
- Use tools and methodologies to create representations of workflows, user interfaces, data schemas, etc;
- Solid understanding of software design and development;
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs;
- Experience building AI/ML solutions to real problems;
- Ability to solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems / microservices;
- Excellent design and problem solving skills.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay ranges for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location, are listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
View more details about Credible Benefits
We combine the intelligence, expertise, and confidence of a financial advisor with the approachability and honesty of a friend. In other words, we’re the friend you always wish you had in finance.
We are optimistic, challengers, trustworthy, clever, and smart. We are open and transparent. We strive to act as advisors by being friendly, objective, and open in our communication. We use language that is intelligent yet approachable. When appropriate, we’ll drop in a bit of wit to position ourselves as a fresh, reliable voice in the financial world.
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