Fullstack Engineer - Fortify

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $125K - $155K

Fortify is modernizing student financing. We're looking for a full-stack engineer who’s excited about fintech, capital markets, and product to join us in opening up access to education.

About us: Fortify helps students succeed, by giving them more affordable ways to pay for their education, and then supporting them after they've graduated. Since COVID, access to credit has collapsed, and students at all kinds of schools - from at trade schools to major universities - need financing options to afford their tuition. Fortify exists to help educational institutions run these financing programs more effectively, handling everything from financial aid, scholarships, payment plans, and institutional loans. We bring costs down for borrowers and make student financing simple. Fortify also goes beyond financing to help students be successful after they've graduated. We're building for those who have the ambition, motivation, and wherewithal to go to school, but are lacking the resources. Fortify is backed by Pear VC. We're a small, very well-capitalized company. You’ll be joining a small team with a lot of expertise in fintech and lending: Both of our cofounders are second-time founders, having started two separate venture-backed companies in the space, and one was an early hire at SoFi.

Responsibilities

• Build Fortify’s core financing platform as a full-stack engineer.
• Own the architecture and launch of entire new products, such as a financial aid tool to help students more easily apply for federal aid (FAFSA) or state aid.
• Work on our online financing application for students who need loans, scholarships, or aid to make their experience smoother.
• Build tools to help promote financial literacy for our students or to help them find job opportunities more easily after they graduate.
• Have significant autonomy over new products and own major launches.
• Work on a very small team with lots of opportunities to own design & product work.
• Help fulfill our mission of expanding access to education and promoting economic mobility.

Requirements

• Experience with React, Python, and Postgres (Nice-to-have)
• Significant ownership over production code at a tech startup.
• Outstanding written communication skills and enjoyment of product work alongside coding.
• Excitement about fintech and working on critical code that processes and moves money.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

• Backing: Pear VC
• Team: Small, experienced team with second-time founders (from SoFi and other ventures)
• Flexibility: Early-stage flexibility to define your role and contribute to various areas of the business as the company scales.