About Koalafi

Koalafi was recently named one of America’s Best Startup Employers, come find out why! Help us to create the best in-store and online financing experience for consumers of all means and credit backgrounds. In this role you’ll join a small but growing engineering organization that architects, designs, and delivers the applications and software to support our rapidly growing business. Not only will you get an opportunity to deliver with leading edge technologies and collaborate with other amazing engineers, but you will also be joining at a time where you can help establish norms and best practices for engineering at Koalafi.

The Opportunity

Specifically, you will be joining our Dealer platform to help build the next generation of how customers interface & apply for financing with Koalafi, focusing on our front-end systems. You’ll develop in the latest technologies and help us move legacy systems to our cloud based micro-service platform(s) all while focusing on improving the customer experience. While “Breaking Down the Monolith,” we want to deploy solutions early and often, find out what works, what doesn’t, and grow Koalafi.

Position & Title

Position and leveling to be determined based on candidate experience and qualifications

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Build awesome things… Design, develop, test, and deploy new software solutions, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Engineer solutions with CI/CD, Quality, and Observability as first-class citizens.
Play well with others.
Be a Lifelong Learner. The industry is constantly changing, stay on the leading edge of development practices.
Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them.

What You Bring

We are building out a microservice based approach to our new system, leveraging GoLang, Postgres and Kubernetes (among other tools) and ReactJS within AWS. These services will work with our legacy platforms that are still a part of our core business and are updated while we construct the next gen UX. We’re looking for a strong engineer with the ability to learn and adapt.

Hands-on experience with modern web technologies (ASP.NET MVC, Angular). Preferred Vue or React.
Knowledge of modern programming languages (Java, Node, Python, etc.).
Understanding of HTTP/REST structure and operation for APIs/Orchestration
Experience front end experiences from Accessibility to User behavior to responsive/adaptive web design.
Knowledge of architecting and delivering applications to any of the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, or GCE.
Skilled at performing research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products.
Knowledge of scrum/agile software development process.
Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.

What You’ll Get

You like to get things done, and we don’t want to stand in your way. You’re going to spend a lot of time with us, at Koalafi we will make sure to create an inclusive environment and let you be yourself.

Put our associates first.
Allow you to be curious and question “why.”
The ability to innovate not just on technology but processes.
A team-oriented and collaborative workplace.
The freedom to influence how we get things done and use the right tools/resources to do so.
The authority to own your work and do what’s right. For both the systems and our customers.
A fast-paced environment to learn new things, be a part of everyone’s success and have some fun along the way.

Education & Experience

Four-year college degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Systems required.