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The company leverages its industry-leading data infrastructure, innovative intelligence layer, & robust FCRA-compliance to boost approvals, improve offers, fight fraud, drive responsible growth, and more. Nova Credit supports over 7,000 businesses including organizations such as Chase, HSBC, SoFi, Sallie Mae, Appfolio, and Yardi, with a growing suite of products. Nova Credit is proud to be backed by an exceptional group of investors and was named in Forbes’ Fintech 50 in 2025 and Built In’s Best Places to Work, 2025.\nJoin us to help unlock economic opportunities for consumers historically excluded from traditional credit systems. We foster a dynamic, inclusive environment that values diversity, intellectual honesty, and innovation, committed to supporting your professional growth. For more on our engineering culture, check out our recent blog post! \nOUR TECHNOLOGY STACK\nWe leverage Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS to bring our products to life.\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\nWe're seeking a Staff Software Enginee r to lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production, define critical technical strategy that powers innovation at scale across our products and platform, and elevate our engineering organization's capability through mentorship and setting best practices.\nYOUR PROFILE & EXPERTISE\n10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups.\nDeep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack.\nA visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment.\nExceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.\nYOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS A RANGE OF PROJECTS\nArchitecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile).\nPioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers.\nShaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform.\nDefining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability.\nIN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU'LL:\nLand your \"new hire\" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature.\nThoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy.\nQuickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, understanding their strategic implications for engineering.\nBuild rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values.\nIN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU'LL:\nLead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity.\nActively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations).\nForge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects.\nDeepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement.\nDevelop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level.\nIN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU'LL:\nLead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals.\nInfluence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership.\nEstablish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform.\nBecome a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies.\nSignificantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen\n$212,500 - $260,200 USD per year\n$190,000 - $233,489 CAD per year\nThe above compensation ranges are dependent on individual experience, skills, education, location, and qualifications. We consider all elements of compensation to be a part of the value we provide to Novans. This may include base salary, equity grants, incentive compensation for eligible roles, professional development, flexible PTO, and tenure rewards. In the U.S., our benefits package includes comprehensive and generously subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance options, along with a company-sponsored 401 (k) plan, generous parental leave, sick time off, and paid vacation time.\nWe are an equal-opportunity employer where everyone is welcome at Nova Credit. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage all qualified candidates, including those with a criminal history, to apply. 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