Entry-level Frontend Engineer

About Addi

We are a technology company working to transform credit and banking in Latin America starting with point of sale finance. We aim to build fair, simple, and affordable financial services that empower our clients, treat them with dignity, and build financial freedom. We launched in February 2019 and have already served millions of clients and disbursed millions of dollars.

We operate as a full-stack startup. We have built our core systems and processes from scratch, and we believe our technology and analytics platform will drive our progress in the years to come. We come at this with deep experience building and growing technology teams and financial products. As important as what we do is how we do it. We are a conscious company and are deeply committed to working and living our five core values - A company of owners inspiring colleagues, we pull rabbits out of hats, we care and we trust, act with integrity, win today every day, and scale exponentially.

We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Monashees, Village Global, and an outstanding team of individual angels, including Kevin Ryan, Josh Abramowitz, and Scott Weiss.

What you will do

• Take e2e ownership and operate the software you design, develop, test, and release into production.

• Work closely with designers, engineers, and product owners to build great products and experiences for our clients and allies.

• Architect and develop world-class user interfaces which combine usability, maintainability, and performance.

• Develop software on a daily basis using our frontend technical stack based on Typescript, Storybook, React, and React Native.

• Review pull requests on a daily basis transferring your knowledge with your team.

• Receive mentorship from everyone on the team, from more experienced members to people who are just starting.

• Deploy new features to production on a daily basis using our CI/CD pipeline.

• Be on-call occasionally. We rotate to distribute our knowledge and experience.

• Contribute to our Architecture Decision Records where you will be able to propose new techniques, patterns, and tools for our evolving platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telematic Engineering, or related disciplines.

• You have 1-2 years of full-time technical work experience as a software engineer or self-taught candidates with proven practical skills and completed projects are encouraged to apply.

• Strong understanding of networking and web architecture.

• Proficiency in architectural styles like REST.

• OOP principles include SOLID, design patterns, and refactoring.

• Database expertise:

  • SQL fundamentals.

  • ACID principles (locks, normalization, transactions).

• Concurrency knowledge: Parallelization, asynchronicity, race conditions, and deadlocks.

• Proficiency in relevant programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, React, Spring, JavaScript).

• Ability to design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure APIs.

• Experience with unit testing and automated testing frameworks.

Benefits

• Work on a problem that matters and help change customers’ lives.

• Build a lasting company from the very beginning, helping define every aspect of it.

• Massive market opportunity ahead of us; we are growing faster than pretty much any other fintech lender was at our stage.

• Work alongside a great and diverse team that cares about what we are doing and how we are doing it.

• Generous compensation, including equity, 100% health insurance (and 100% for dependents), flexible time-off, and learning budget.

How the hiring process looks like

• Meet with our recruiter for a 30-minute video chat. We will get to know you better, understand what you’re looking for, and answer any questions you might have about ADDI.

• Meet with one software engineer for a 60-minute video chat interview. Here, we will ask you questions about your technical background and basic computer science concepts and develop a system design exercise. You will be able to ask any questions about the culture and how we work at AddiI.

• Complete a simple take-home challenge within 3 days. With this technical challenge, we want to see your technical expertise in solving a real-world problem. We expect that you invest 5 hours or less in developing a working solution.

• Meet with a software engineer and the engineering manager for a 60-minute chat to talk about your take-home exercise submission and any questions you might have.

• Meet with one of our founders for a 30-minute chat to talk about the vision of the company, what we are building, and how you will contribute to our product.