Senior Software Engineer

The Guarantors is a cutting edge fintech company setting the standard in rent coverage with unrivaled insurance products, with a deep understanding of owner, operator, and renter needs. We believe renters deserve better access to the home of their dreams and operators deserve greater protection and growth opportunities. That’s why we’re leveraging our expertise in real estate and using AI-based technology to help operators qualify renters faster while mitigating the risk of rental income loss.

With $2B+ in rent and deposits guaranteed, we have been named one of Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies, one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employees, and one of Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500.

Join a high-impact, full-stack engineering team at The Guarantors as a Senior Software Engineer
. You’ll partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and stakeholders to design, build, and maintain scalable applications that support both internal operations and our customer experience.

We foster a team culture grounded in ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence. Our engineers are empowered to shape their team’s technical direction and development processes.

Location
NYC

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to build features end-to-end—across backend, frontend, and APIs
• Lead technical design discussions and help evaluate tradeoffs
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
• Work closely with product and design to transform business needs into practical engineering solutions
• Enable and build upon mission critical systems within our business.

• Professional experience working within software engineering teams
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of relevant production work experience in back-end web development, preferably using Go or Typescript
• 3+ years of relevant production work experience in front-end web development, preferably using React
• Track record of success in terms of ability to execute projects
• A willingness to champion team needs and get involved with strategic decisions.
• Deep understanding of API concepts and designs
• Advanced understanding of SQL
• Familiarity with multiple RDS technologies and their benefits
• Familiarity with modern web infrastructure components (e.g. caching, serverless, API gateways, etc) and how to manage them.
• Understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, and experience creating and evaluating technical design documents

• Experience working with full stack engineering teams that support a vertical slice of the product
• Familiarity with best practices of SRE (e.g. SLOs, KPIs, postmortems, incident management, toil reduction, etc.)
• Familiarity with Machine Learning (ML) frameworks and concepts
• Familiarity with Python
• Experience working with AWS
• Opportunities to make an impact within a fast growing company
• Health savings account with employer contribution
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Company sponsored short and long term disability
• Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, commuter)

The base salary range is $140,000 - $160,000 annually

Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location and current market data and may vary from the range above.

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The Guarantors is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all.