Senior Software Engineer

The Role

We're seeking out a Santa Barbara based Senior Software Engineer to develop and own platform capabilities across our full stack - from user-facing workflows to high-throughput payment, notification, and data sync systems. As one of the largest financial solutions providers in our industry, everything we build operates at scale from day one, and you will be responsible for capabilities that impact millions of users. In addition to application code, you’ll also be working on the development infrastructure that allows our organization to scale safely - including automated testing, monitoring, and internal tooling.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll have broad ownership over your projects - from strategic planning to owning implementation outcomes, and your role will encompass both IC work as well as mentoring and developing junior team members. The common denominator across every project you work on will be a deep sense of craft - both as an individual and as part of a collective team - that drives product excellence and ultimately enables us to be the winners in our space.

Our Stack

Pearly operates on a hyper-modern stack that is optimized for developer experience and scalability. You’ll be releasing code that is high-impact, simple, and safe from day one - working predominantly in Typescript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. Our tooling leverages the best of open source and cloud-based capabilities - including Serverless Functions, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Playwright. We put a lot of thought into how to make shipping code at Pearly as fun and low-friction as possible, and we’re constantly iterating on our stack/tooling to stay at the leading edge (we’re currently loving Cursor and Granola).

What You'll Do

• Own the full development cycle: You'll be responsible for every step of development, from product ideation, to specification, through to implementation and release to Production.

• Define the platform : You will research and make judgement calls on fundamental decisions regarding data modeling, architecture, infrastructure, and tooling.

• Operate as a leader: Senior engineers model and apply a standard of excellence to fellow team members through training, feedback, and collaboration - not only to achieve business goals, but also to authentically develop each team member into a world class software practitioner

• Build the path forward: You'll be entrusted to build today what we need for tomorrow - we believe in creating generalized frameworks that anticipate future needs as a core development principle.

Qualifications

• Sense of Craft. You take pride in and are consistently honing your technical and creative abilities. You seek out opportunities to introduce simplicity and elegance, and enjoy composing solutions to business requirements in a way that is both innovative and effective.

• 4+ Years Deploying to Prod: You have an understanding of the requirements and stakes involved in deploying live systems. You exhibit exceptional attention to detail and reliability, and are prepared to operate in a security and accuracy sensitive domain.

• Command of the Full Stack. You are comfortable working in any layer of modern web application architecture - from Data Persistence to Business Logic to the User Interface. The ability to learn quickly and deeply is more important than any particular technology, although a strong understanding of relational data modeling is a must.

• Willing to Roll Up Your Sleeves. Taking the initiative is second nature to you. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, take projects to the finish line, and own the outcome.

• Based in Santa Barbara, CA. You will work at Pearly's office in downtown Santa Barbara, California, with the opportunity to periodically work remotely.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and healthcare benefits

• Meeting-light culture

• Work with an A+ smart and passionate team

• Flexible vacation/time-off policy

• Opportunity to make your mark at an accelerating company with great product-market fit