Who is Credible?
We are a marketplace where users can compare personalized, prequalified rates and quotes from multiple lenders and carriers, for student loans, mortgages, personal loans, and insurance.
We’re challenging the status quo by giving power to the consumer. We believe in a world where ‘ethical’, ‘lending’, and ‘insurance’ can coexist, so we set out to build innovative platforms that actually work for customers. Our mission is to help people find the best loan or insurance policy possible.
We believe researching and buying loans or insurance shouldn’t be confusing or complex, so we’ve focused on simplicity. We’ve created the only unbiased loan and insurance buying process out there, which makes finding options straightforward and clear.
The new hire will be working on the backend of the customer facing application along with a front end engineer and collaborating with multiple teams - quoteEngine team responsible for generating quotes, admin team that support internal application used by sales/service team and ops team supporting all the back of the funnel processes.
Responsibilities:
- Backend monitoring and support of the customer-facing application where customers fill out their home and auto profiles to request quotes
- Migrate the current architecture from backend written in Scala to Ruby and consolidate/eliminate services for easier maintenance
- Support post-deployment fallouts on projects worked on and released to production;
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating, analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions;
- Cross-team collaboration in driving the end to end delivery of Insurance quotes
- Participating in the code reviews and design discussions with other engineers;
- Have a strong sense of end to end ownership;
- Adhere to key principles: Code and design for best performance, scalability and resiliency;
- Participate in Agile planning and standup meetings;
- Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software;
- Develop backend services using Ruby
- Be a self-starter, capable of solving ambiguous and challenging technical problems with wide scope;
- Deliver trustworthy solutions for engineers allowing them to focus on experimentation, evolution, and delivery of high-quality features;
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions;
- Backend development including design, documentation, implementation, and testing;
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience;
- Understand data structure concepts
- 2-3 years of software development experience (from customer requirements -> functional spec -> design -> development/testing -> deployment and monitoring);
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
- 2+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable, production-quality services at cloud-scale with AWS platform;
- Use tools and methodologies to create representations of workflows, user interfaces, data schemas, etc;
- Solid understanding of software design and development;
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs;
- Experience building AI/ML solutions to real problems;
- Ability to solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems / microservices;
- Excellent design and problem solving skills.
Credible is open to hiring candidates in the following locations: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington
Why work at Credible?
We combine the intelligence, expertise, and confidence of a financial advisor with the approachability and honesty of a friend. In other words, we’re the friend you always wish you had in finance.
We are optimistic, challengers, trustworthy, clever, and smart. We are open and transparent. We strive to act as advisors by being friendly, objective, and open in our communication. We use language that is intelligent yet approachable. When appropriate, we’ll drop in a bit of wit to position ourselves as a fresh, reliable voice in the financial world.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
