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First Help Financial (FHF) is a fast-growing and culturally diverse company in the U.S. We provide auto loans to the underserved and care for our customers and partners with exceptional service. Through flexible financing options and tri-lingual support, we offer consumers an easier way to finance their first car. We lend to and support our portfolio which has consistently grown 30%+ each year over the last nine years.

Here you will find hard-working colleagues who come from over 20 countries. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism but also enjoy our work. Our culture and benefits are geared towards making you successful in life and comfortable at work.

Your Title:Senior Software Engineer

Your Hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 18:00pm GMT-3

Your Location:Hybrid/Brazil HQ address - Nações Unidas 12901 - São Paulo - SP (required to go to the office two days a week)

You Report To:Engineering Manager

Learn more about our awesome Engineering team

About the Opportunity:

First Help Financial, recently voted as a "Great Place to Work" for the third year in a row is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our highly skilled and innovative team. First Help Financial is embarking on a new growth phase involving multiple game-changing projects. To fuel such innovation, we are seeking a full-time, contract senior software engineer to lead important technology and security projects that impact the entire enterprise as well as its clientele. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Backend Languages, System Design, DevOps best practices, high standards of code quality, and a background in Computer Science. The candidate should be customer obsessed, love to help others, be a team player, and be able to mentor juniors. The candidate should also be able to handle a distributed team.

What you will do:

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Designs and develops major functional or performance enhancements for existing products or produces new software products or tools.
• Becoming a subject matter expert for our Loan Origination Systems with an ability to explain and improve complicated code bases and assist with troubleshooting complex problems
• Take a lead role in steering architecture to scale technology and process to a high scale and quality.
• Work closely with stakeholders in various internal groups to help balance delivery speed and quality.
• Mentor and train junior developers to maximize team velocity.
• You will be a developer on an Agile team, working closely with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and other engineers, to review and qualify business requirements, functional (and non-functional) specifications, use-cases, and test plans.
• Drive full cycle end-to-end development from design through production rollout
Design, prototype, and author code for software components and applications. Continue to iterate to optimize customer experience

What you bring:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. Master’s is a plus.
• 5+ years’ experience in developing world-class distributed systems.
• 5+ years’ experience with backend development
• 5+ years’ experience with relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• Experience working in an Agile team
• Familiarity with System Design and Design Patterns: A solid understanding of system design is essential. The ideal candidate should be capable of designing and developing scalable and resilient infrastructure components that align with the organization's goals.
• Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: CircleCI, Jenkins, GIT, Sonarqube, etc.
• Experience with deconstructing complex problems into modular simple solutions.
• Strong understanding and discipline around software test approach.
• Strong sense of dedication and teamwork toward a goal.
• Full-Stack development experience.
• Experience in Financial Services Industry.
• Experience with Cloud Technologies like AWS S3, RDS, ELB, etc.
• Experience with containers and developing containerized applications using Docker.
• Experience with Domain Drive Design
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture
• Deep knowledge of AWS ecossystems and tools

FHF Benefits…

• Great Perks – We offer generous salaries, social activities, monthly lunches, and a robust employee recognition and talent development program to enhance your career with us.
• Culture - We are believers in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we work hard and care deeply about our customers and partners, we want you to have room for your family, friends, and yourself.
• Growth - Company growth provides unprecedented career growth. FHF’s extraordinary year over year growth in revenue and new markets provides opportunity for you to establish and develop your career growth. We engage each employee to build a career plan that benefits everyone, and we have a proven record of investing in you.

Diversity and Inclusion

FHF is committed to building a culture that respects and embraces all walks of life, inclusive of all genders, race, culture, age, sexual orientation, and other identities. We will make accommodations when interviewing anyone with special needs.