# Staff Software Engineer, Lending Products

**Company:** [Parafin](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/parafin)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $265k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Backend, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Architecture Design, Fintech, System Design, Code Review, Mentoring, Scalability, Reliability
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Leads technical design and evolution of platforms powering lending products, partnering cross-functionally to build scalable infrastructure. Requires 8+ years backend experience, strong architecture skills, and ability to mentor engineers.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the technical design and evolution of the platforms, frameworks, and shared infrastructure that power all of Parafin's lending products.
- Partner with engineers on teams that own specific lending verticals to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that enable them to move quickly.
- Set technical direction through engineering design docs, architecture reviews, and design discussions, aligning the team on priorities and tradeoffs.
- Identify, prioritize, and own infrastructure improvements that accelerate product development and maintain high levels of system reliability.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentoring, code review, and improving team processes and reliability practices.
- Mentor other engineers, drive improvements to team processes and code quality, and foster a culture of craft and ownership.

## What We’re Searching For
- 8+ years of experience working in a backend engineering role, ideally in a platform or product-focused environment.
- You care deeply about building high-quality software and take immense pride in your craft.
- You have experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional projects and can make sound tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and time to value.
- You take the initiative to identify commonalities between different problem statements and design appropriate abstractions.
- You have strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working across Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams.

**Bonus Points**
- Experience building internal platforms or frameworks that other engineering teams build on top of.
- Experience in fintech, financial products, or embedded finance.
- Experience designing systems with strong correctness and auditability requirements.

## What We Offer
**Salary Range:** $265k - $330k  
**Equity grant**  
**Medical, dental & vision insurance**  
**Work from home flexibility**  
**Unlimited PTO**  
**Commuter benefits**  
**Free lunches**  
**Paid parental leave**  
**401(k)**  
**Employee assistance program**

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