NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our EDGE brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like‑minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.Job SummaryAs a Staff Engineer you'll create the technical strategy for key systems in the platform taking into account our growth in business and our growth in the Engineering department. You'll ensure our platform scales and is easily extensible given our long term business roadmap. You'll lead through analysis, design, and collaboration. Equally important, you are a doer. Someone who remains technical because you stay hands on writing code, building tools, or setting up infrastructure when necessary.You may work in the following Platform Domains; each domain is composed of multiple systems:Customer Communication - how we communicate with our customers & potential customers. I.e. email, sms, snail mailIdentity - managing customer and potential customer informationDecisions - 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:Provide architectural leadership across a number of interdependent engineering teams, systems, business departments.Connect multiple independent systems to provide discoverable, visible, and clean customer data across marketing, operations, analytics, and product teamsPartner with business stakeholders to improve the tech stack for all the business needs, including but not limited to: data governance, reporting, and site performance analyticsLevel up your teammates' technical design and Ruby on Rails skillsetContribute to architecture design and code reviews for all key application functional componentsProvide critical thinking, technical innovation and attention to detail when serving as a trusted advisor and mentor to your teamSupport QA, verification and validation activities to ensure system quality, functionality and performanceCode new featuresCode bug fixes alongside your team when neededIdeal Candidate Will Have:10+ years of experience in software development with a focus on designing systems architecture, which includes hands on experience writing code or building infrastructure.8+ years of experience in Ruby on RailsDemonstrated experience contributing in an Agile and TDD work environment building SaaS applications in the cloud (AWS)Experience leading projects from inception to completion and have mentored other engineersSolid understanding of building modern web apps at scaleExperience in building well‑documented API's and third‑party integrationsDeep understanding of API design and best practicesData driven, analytical, strong communicator, who understands the big picture, but understands the importance of every detailNatural problem solver who starts from the why, and uses first principles to get to a meaningful what and howAdditional Pluses:Experience in fintech and lending a big plusYou enjoy working at growth stage companies and building systems from the ground upExceptional leader with ownership mentalityBenefits:Competitive salary and benefits packageFlexible, remote workFun, fast‑paced work environmentDynamic start‑up cultureConvenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the cityEqual opportunity employerApplicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.IMPORTANT NOTICE:Please carefully review communications to ensure that they are from the official Breezy applicant tracking platform (@ninjaholdings.breezy-mail.com) or an official NinjaHoldings brand email: @ninjaholdings.com, @creditninja.com, @ninjacard.com, or @edgescore.com. If you have been contacted regarding a job opening at NinjaHoldings from any other email address, including similar email variations, this is NOT a trusted source. We recommend that you refrain from responding to suspicious emails and file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at For questions or to confirm the authenticity of a communication, please email hr @ninjaholdings.com.#J-18808-Ljbffr