Software Engineer at Goldfinch

Full time, preferably located in the Bay Area. Open to remote for the right candidate.

About Goldfinch

Founded by two ex-Coinbase employees and backed by top investors including Andreesen Horowitz, Coinbase, IDEO, and Kindred Ventures, Goldfinch is a decentralized credit platform that is using crypto to empower financial inclusion around the world.

Our vision is to build a global network that allows anyone to be a lender, not just banks. Since launching the protocol in December 2020, we've gone from zero to serving thousands of borrowers across three continents with a loan pool over $2.5M, in seven different countries. And we're just getting started. We plan to scale the loan book to $10M+ in the next few months, and launch a decentralized network soon after to massively scale the types and amount of lending that we can support.

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Goldfinch, you will be responsible — along with our world-class engineering team — for building impenetrable smart contracts and delightful web products for our customers to use. We ruthlessly cut scope and follow an agile methodology. We work to create a high trust, empathetic team environment with high standards of excellence and integrity.

Projects You Might Work On

• You would get to own greenfield components of our V2 projects, from the smart contracts to the front-ends. This might be our global currency hedging pool (which will allow borrowers in any country to borrow in their local currency), or our internal exchange, or our unique entity check system.
• You could build our investor dashboard on our front-ends, from scratch. This would be in React, and will involve fetching data from Ethereum, as well as potentially integrating with The Graph protocol.
• You could build a standalone deployment of our front-ends that could be hosted by any of our borrowers. This might involve working with AWS or GCP to make one-click deployments available to them. Remember, this is a decentralized protocol, so we aren't building for ourselves to own everything. We want to put power into our users hands, and remove ourselves as a point of failure.

With any of these projects, you'd be expected to own them end to end, while being an enthusiastic and collaborative team member with everyone else and their projects.

Who You'll Be Working With

• Current team is a mix of tech and finance veterans, with deep crypto and emerging market lending experience from some of the best companies in the world, including Coinbase, Morgan Stanley, Yelp, Branch, Medium, Stratos, and Twilio.
• Everyone on the team except for one has started their own company in the past.
• On the eng side, we are three ex-Coinbase engineers, two were Staff level, one Senior level. All have at least 7 years of experience.

Qualifications

• Excitement about crypto, and the Goldfinch. mission!
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong technical judgement, knows when to "build it right" and when "quick and dirty" is the right call
• A passion for building excellent products first (cool technology second)
• Ability to work with little guidance and find paths forward

Technical Nice to Haves

• Solidity or other blockchain development
• React

Nice to Haves

• Experience in crypto or blockchain startups
• Experience working in emerging markets

Benefits / Perks

• All roles include meaningful equity
• Healthcare, dental, vision
• Occasional free lunch
• Maternal / Paternal leave