Principal Engineer

🕒 February 6

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Novo

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

🏦 Banking

💰 $35M Series B on 2022-11

Fintech • B2B • Banking

Novo is a fintech company offering a range of banking services tailored for small businesses, freelancers, self-employed individuals, and consultants. Known for its user-friendly platform, Novo provides tools such as business banking accounts, credit cards, funding solutions, and bookkeeping with AI-powered transaction categorization. Novo integrates with top business tools and provides resources to help customers manage budgets, invoices, and financial insights. Offering secure, seamless banking services, Novo partners with banks like Middlesex Federal Savings to provide FDIC-insured deposit accounts.

📋 Description

• Own full-stack initiatives end to end—from problem definition and architecture to implementation, deployment, and production support. • Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap aligned with fast-moving startup goals. • Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable frontend and backend systems with minimal dependencies on other teams. • Lead development independently while collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders. • Make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability. • Write and review high-impact code across frontend and backend systems. • Identify and solve ambiguous, complex technical problems with limited requirements or constraints. • Establish lightweight but effective engineering best practices, coding standards, and processes suitable for a startup environment. • Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and security improvements as the product and user base grow. • Own production readiness, monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems for the systems you build. • Author clear technical documentation, RFCs, and architecture decisions to enable future scaling of the team. • Mentor engineers as the team grows and help set the technical bar for the organization. • Evaluate build vs. buy decisions and lead system migrations or refactors when needed.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong full-stack expertise • Proven ability to independently own and deliver large technical initiatives in startup or high-growth environments • Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript • Strong experience with React.js or similar modern frontend frameworks • Strong backend experience with Node.js and Golang • Deep experience with SQL, NoSQL, and in-memory databases, including schema design and performance tuning • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and microservices or modular monolith architectures • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices • Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes (or willingness to own production infrastructure directly) • Experience with event-driven systems and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) • Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and trade-offs in early-stage products • Excellent problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity and minimal direction • Clear and effective communication skills, especially when translating business needs into technical execution • Experience leading system migrations, refactors, or platform evolution in fast-paced environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Novo values diversity as a core tenant of the work we do and the businesses we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, role-specific, or any other protected characteristic.