Staff Software Engineer

Nova Credit is on a mission to power financial inclusion globally, building a unified platform for credit and financial data. The Staff Software Engineer will lead high-impact initiatives, define technical strategies, and mentor team members to enhance engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and building enterprise-grade APIs and establishing patterns for platform-level features (web and mobile)
• Pioneering and launching new, complex integrations with critical data suppliers
• Shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the end-to-end productionization of complex data models to deploy mission-critical attributes and scores across our platform
• Defining and evolving core platform architecture to support multiple product use cases and ensure long-term scalability
• Land your "new hire" ticket in the first week and directly contribute to at least one high-impact roadmap feature
• Thoroughly understand our software development lifecycle and overarching technical strategy
• Quickly grasp our business model, product offerings, and customer value proposition, understanding their strategic implications for engineering
• Build rapport with the team and key stakeholders, understanding our working style, mission, and core values
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, delivering with speed and end-to-end ownership, often navigating ambiguity
• Actively shape and make profound contributions across team norms (e.g., refining project plans, elevating code review standards, optimizing QA processes, improving on-call rotations)
• Forge strong collaborative relationships across engineering, product, design, data science, and other partner teams to drive cohesive development of complex projects
• Deepen knowledge of critical product artifacts and proactively identify significant opportunities for architectural or systemic improvement
• Develop a clear understanding of how engineering strategically impacts our business and product roadmap at a macro level
• Lead highly complex initiatives end-to-end, translating significant ambiguity into clear, actionable milestones to achieve both short and long-term organizational goals
• Influence and implement our company's technical roadmap and strategic direction in close partnership with engineering and product leadership
• Establish critical best practices, drive long-term technical vision, and advocate for architectural shifts to simplify and scale our entire product platform
• Become a recognized subject matter expert across product verticals and foundational systems, adept at translating broad product requirements into impactful technical strategies
• Significantly strengthen our engineering culture by championing open dialogue and feedback, and providing instrumental mentorship to uplift overall technical acumen

Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant experience, including high-growth or early-stage startups
• Deep fluency in modern software technologies and architectural patterns, with the ability to quickly learn and ramp into our tech stack
• A visionary and adaptive leader, adept at defining clarity and driving solutions through highly complex and ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment
• Exceptional collaborator, able to effectively influence and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership