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Lead Software Engineer

💰 $140,000 - $180,000 📅 07/18/2023

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Job Description

### **Who We Are**

DebtBook is an industry-leading fintech software platform that revolutionizes
the way local governments, higher education, healthcare organizations and
their finance teams work. Our powerful, cloud-based software helps these
organizations manage all aspects of their debt, leases, and subscriptions,
streamline financial reporting, and share information simply with others.

### **About this Role**

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help us continue to build our
platform. We have multiple engineering teams that are broken out based on
product area, and we staff our teams with full-stack engineers. Each team is
expected to frequently and incrementally deliver improvements to our
application. We aim to release code at least once a week, and have all teams
ship code at least weekly. In addition to writing code, Lead Software
engineers are expected to contribute to managing the projects they are working
on, help solve process and architectural problems, help onboard new engineers,
and mentor early career engineers.

### **Key Responsibilities**

* Partner with a Product Manager and Engineering manager to lead large projects. Lead Engineers focus on technical leadership and hands-on coding.
* Help interview, onboard, and mentor engineers. We take a hands-on approach to onboarding and mentoring and jump into pair programming to help unblock our teammates.
* Lead technical designs on your team, and assist other leads by reviewing their technical designs. Review merge requests; help move work forward when it's good enough, and give feedback where work falls short.
* Expected to ramp up and be an expert on the general FE, BE, and the Schema patterns of our application within 3-6 months. Able to train, unblock, or lead any engineers on the team.
* Break down and structure work so code is shipped frequently, not in large chunks.

### **Qualifications and Experience**

* 6+ years professional Software Engineering experience
* Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and SQL
* Experience leading large projects
* Experienced in SQL schema design

### **Technologies We Use**

* We have a majestic monolith built with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and React
* Our app is hosted in AWS and we have CI/CD pipelines and deployments in GitLab

### **Interview Process**

* 30 min - Introduction Call
* 1 hr - Management Interview with an Engineering Manager
* 90 min - Pair with an engineering for code review, pair programming, and schema design
* 2 hr - Group Interview w/ Engineering Team and Product Team

* 45 min - Engineering interview with 2 engineers from the team
* 30 min - Interview with the team Product Manager
* 45 min - Interview with the team Engineering Manager

### **Why DebtBook**

At DebtBook, we dream big, move fast, make an impact, and bring joy to
everything we do. Our core values drive our success as an organization, and we
are looking for talented teammates who share our passion for challenging the
status quo, innovating in all we do, and wanting to make a difference. We are
growing fast, but our people aren’t just a number -- everybody has the
opportunity to shape our culture and the future of the company.

### **Benefits & Perks**

Proud to be named one of the “Best Places to Work” by Charlotte’s Business
Journal, DebtBook is a fast-growing company where we dream big, move fast,
make an impact, and bring joy to everything we do. Our core values drive our
success as an organization, and we are looking for talented teammates who
share our passion for challenging the status quo, innovating in all we do, and
wanting to make a difference.

When it comes to benefits and perks, we are committed to supporting our
employees’ well-being to make their lives better, both in and out of the
office. We offer:

* Competitive salaries plus equity (stock options) for all employees
* Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with 4% employer match
* Flexible work schedules and generous leave policies (including unlimited PTO)
* Professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement
* Family and wellness perks
* Stipends for remote workers to set up their ideal work space

Compensation

* Annual salary range is: $142,500-$175,000 based on experience
* This role is eligible for an up to 10% annual bonus

_DebtBook is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and prohibit
discrimination and unlawful harassment in the workplace. All applicants will
receive consideration for employment based upon their qualifications without
regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender
identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, marital status,
genetic information, political affiliation, National Guard or veteran status,
disability, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.
We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities to contact our team for
assistance during the application and hiring process. We are committed to
expanding accessibility and making reasonable accommodations in accordance
with applicable law._

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DebtBook focuses on SaaS, B2B, Governments, Finance, and Accounting. Their
company has offices in Charlotte and Remote. They have a mid-size team that's
between 51-200 employees. To date, DebtBook has raised $3.701M of funding;
their latest round was closed on November 2021.

You can view their website at <https://www.debtbook.com/> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/debtbookhq) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/debtbook).