Senior Software Engineer

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October 16

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Fintech • HR Tech • Education

Summer is a company that partners with organizations, including employers, retirement providers, and financial institutions, to offer customized student loan and education assistance benefits. Their solutions aim to improve employee retention by offering savings through loan optimization, forgiveness programs, tax-free contributions, and retirement matching for student loan payments. Summer helps manage the entire process, including participant enrollment and reporting, ensuring efficient delivery of benefits. Their platform is particularly beneficial for HR teams in public sector and government entities, and aims to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) by supporting a diverse employee base.

11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

👥 HR Tech

📚 Education

📋 Description

• Own and Lead Development: Take full ownership of features and systems, from idea to production. You’ll lead technical design and implementation for team-level projects, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. • Build Across the Stack: Contribute to full-stack development—from frontend UI components in React to backend services in Node.js and database design in Postgres. • Architect for Growth: Help build scalable platforms, including integrations with external partners, and making thoughtful architectural decisions with long-term impact. • Collaborate Deeply: Work closely with product managers and designers to translate customer needs into well-scoped, technical solutions. Write clear specs and contribute to the broader product strategy. • Champion Engineering Practices: Contribute to and help evolve our engineering processes, tooling, and standards. Drive improvements in code quality, team velocity, and system resilience. Leverage AI tools responsibly to improve documentation, debugging, and developer productivity, while maintaining code quality and review standards. • Mentor and Level Up the Team: Provide thoughtful, constructive code reviews. Help unblock teammates and support their growth through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications, including both frontend and backend work. • A track record of owning features or systems in complex environments—ideally within fintech, edtech, or other verticals that may manage sensitive data. • Comfort navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs when perfect information isn’t available. • Experience leading technical decisions at the team level and balancing long-term scalability with short-term needs. • Strong communication skills that allow you to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority. • Experience with emerging tools and practices in software development using or evaluating AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity grant to share in Summer’s success • 100% employee-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with 3% match, fully vested day one • Home office setup reimbursement • Monthly lunch credits • Direct contributions toward your student loans • Up to 11 paid holidays + flexible PTO • Paid leave for family, health, or personal needs • Annual in-person events including Summer Camp and Summer Wonderland • And more!