SyntheticFi
Low cost securities-backed lending for independent financial advisors
Founding Software Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a full-stack engineer. An ideal candidate must be able to handle ambiguity in our early stage startup journey. You will have a lot of influence on our product direction and company culture.
You will work closely with the co-founders (primarily Tony, previously a senior software engineer at Stripe) and build the foundation of our product. Over time, we expect you will grow to become a tech lead of our engineering team.
What we are looking for
- You are able to build and ship features end-to-end from start to finish. That includes planning, development, testing, deployment, and gathering user feedback.
- You communicate well in English and work effectively in a remote team setting.
- You are proficient in our tech stack: NodeJS, Next.JS, TypeScript, Python, React, PostgreSQL.
- You have experience working with our DevOps environment / tool chain: Git, Linux on AWS, Vercel, Sentry.
- You have experience integrating with 3rd party APIs with English documentation.
- You follow industry standard best practices, and you write clean code that can generally be easily understood without much documentation.
The following may make you a star candidate
- You contribute to Open Source or have your own open source projects on GitHub.
- You have worked for over 3 years in a fast-paced tech company or startup environment.
- You have experience working in the FinTech industry.
About SyntheticFi
SyntheticFi is a YCombinator funded startup based in San Francisco, with team members all over the world. We offer low cost securities-backed lending for independent financial advisors.
There is around $1 trillion in securities-backed loans in the United States, and the industry around these loans is dominated by legacy banks. SyntheticFi is disrupting this industry with box spreads, an innovative financing tool that recently became available to retail investors.
We are growing rapidly, reaching over $150 million in Regulatory AUM with a few months of launch. Hundreds of financial advisors are actively recommending our products to their clients.
