Fortify is modernizing student financing. We're looking for a full-stack engineer who's excited about fintech, capital markets, and product to join us in opening up access to education.
About us
Fortify aims to help students succeed, by helping them discover schools, giving them more affordable ways to pay, and by helping them be successful once they've graduated. Since COVID, access to credit has collapsed. Students of all kinds - at trade schools or at major universities - need financing options to afford school. We help educational institutions run these financing programs more effectively, and we go beyond financing to help students be successful after they've graduated. We build for those who have the ambition, motivation, and wherewithal to attend school and improve their lives, but are lacking the resources. Fortify is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs, and we're a small, very well-capitalized company. Both of our cofounders founded two separate venture-backed companies in the space, and one was an early hire at SoFi. You'll be joining a small team that has a lot of expertise in fintech and lending.
About this role:
- You'll be a full-stack engineer, working on our Fortify's core financing platform.
- You'll be given significant autonomy over the existing product, as well as owning major launches.
- You'll work on a very small team and have opportunities to own design and product work.
- You'll help fulfill our mission of providing financial stability and better educational options to students.
Projects you might work on:
- Owning the launch of an new product from scratch, such as a financial aid tool to help students more easily apply for federal aid (the FAFSA) or state aid.
- Making improvements to our software portal for schools to monitor loan applications and repayments.
- Building tools to help students with financial literacy, or to find jobs more easily after they graduate.
Nice-to-haves:
- You have had significant ownership over production code at a tech startup.
- You have outstanding written communication skills.
- You have a strong sense of pride in making your code clean, elegant, and understandable - and are comfortable working on critical code that processes and moves around money.
- You have experience with our tech stack: React, Python, and Postgres.
Growing at Fortify:
If you're interested in fintech, this is a unique opportunity to get in the weeds with lending, capital markets, and payment processing. As always, there's lots of early-stage flexibility to create your own role and define what you'd like to work on. There will be lots of opportunity to own major new products, make key design decisions, to interview users & customers, and to grow into other areas of the business as we scale up rapidly.