Position: Lead Software Engineer (Node+React)
Company: Sunvery
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Gaya** is an embedded fintech startup for insurance agencies that allows them to offer financial products (e.g., car loans, car refi, credit cards, mortgage refi) from different Banks and Credit Unions catering for clients across the credit spectrum.

Gaya deeply integrates within Insurance CRM (aka Agency Management Systems) and flag the best financial products to be offered by agents at the right time. Their first and live financial product is a car loan refinancing platform.

**Gaya is looking for Lead Software Engineer to join the team.**

Success in this role requires moving quickly to build and ship production-ready code iteratively. You will work closely with both the CTO and CEO. If you’re scrappy, full of enthusiasm, a doer, and aspire to launch your own startup someday, this role is for you. We will give you much exposure to growing an early-stage startup.

**What you’ll do**
- Plan the technical roadmap with the CTO. Make architectural decisions, scalability/performance engineering, security/privacy efforts, and release plans.
- Migrate Gaya’s front-end from Bubble.io to ReactJS
- Go Agile! And ensure tech documentation for all your work so our future devs can be happy 🙂
- Manage live system operations, including system upgrades
- Help recruit a broader engineering team – we are about to close a large seed round and will start hiring superstar engineers!
- Identify, recommend and implement technical partnerships with third-party technical partners, suppliers, and vendors
- co-Design the architecture for the Gaya API
- Help us reach SOC2 compliance/ensure all our portals respond to the highest grade security compliance

**Who we’re looking for**
- 5 years of engineering experience, working with teams focused on building and shipping robust, high-quality, production-ready products (Fintech or Insurtech is a plus)
- Highly proficient technical knowledge of front-end, back-end, cloud (AWS, Heroku), and integration technologies and best practices at scale. Our current stack requires proficiency in Node.JS, Web APIs, Javascript, TypeScript, ReactJS
- Successful track record of working with high-performing, healthy, and sustainable teams that have addressed complex technical and organizational challenges
- Ability to work in a fast-moving startup organization with data-driven results in mind

**Benefits & Perks**
- Competitive salary and generous equity incentive plan
- Flexible Paid time off
- Health Insurance

**Why you should join**

**You’re an entrepreneur at heart **
We love experimenting and being scrappy. Join us to be exposed to all the phases of a growing startup. You will get exposure to our fundraising, team building, culture development, and more. If entrepreneurship is something you want to pursue, we’ll help you get the right foundation. In fact, we’re happy to support you in the application process to Business School if that’s on your horizon 🙂

**You are allergic to unfair financing deals**
In today’s world, 80% of car loans are originated by dealerships. 50% of consumers pay $37Bn in excess to cover their car loan interest rates. In most situations, those who need to save every penny to make ends meet are the ones paying for those rates in excess!

**You like what we are working on and love a challenge**
We empower insurance agents to step in and help their clients reduce their monthly loan payments (starting with car loans). Why not go directly to the consumer? Because refinancing car loans, unlike mortgage loans, require way more trust that an ad or a direct mailer can possibly carry.

**Remote Location**
Gaya is a remote-first company! This role can be located anywhere in the U.S. Remote-based colleagues may occasionally travel to a common location for meetings or team-building events or to occasional off-sites.