Stilt is building an online bank for those typically underserved by the existing credit bureau reporting process, customers who are new to the United States banking system, and those with “thin” or no files. Stilt is a Y-Combinator backed company based in San Francisco, founded by an immigrant team with expertise in finance, technology, and machine learning.

They are working hard to make financial services simple for underserved applicants by building an institution that uses cross-country data, better credit risk scoring, and operational efficiency. Stilt has now served immigrants from 100+ countries.

As a Backend Software Engineer at Stilt you get to design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems in the Stilt production environment. You will work with operations, legal, accounting, and product team to deliver features to improve the efficiency of the team and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What you'll be doing at Stilt

• Build a new API for our lending platform, or iterate on existing APIs

• Build APIs to extend new product offering to the Stilt’s customer 

• Build new tools for our operation teams, or iterate on existing tools

• Integrate third-party APIs for security/payments/wire

• Consolidate data from multiple platforms and create a platform for marketing and accounting team to use

• Implement tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce the DevOps work

Things that make you a good fit

• Enjoy building scalable APIs 

• Take pride in completing a project, and shipping it for the end-user

• Have a growth mindset, and constantly learning and improving engineering as well as interpersonal skills

• Keep yourself accountable for work, by keeping track of key metrics for yourself

• Thrive in a multidisciplinary team and like solving difficult problems

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