Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Sunny Day Fund Full Stack Engineer

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We're looking for a mission-delusional engineer to join a high-velocity, high-impact team building wealth and financial well-being for frontline workers.

If you love to…

• Build a product that's "mission-delusional," as we like to call it
• Learn continuously and take initiative
• Solve problems and find simple, practical solutions
• Iterate based on feedback from real users
• Explore new technologies to better serve Savers
• Collaborate with teammates and celebrate wins

You'll thrive at Sunny Day Fund, where each day you'll challenge yourself, grow with talented colleagues, and know your work impacts American workers.

The Ideal Candidate

• Ready with the right experience, expertise, and personal drive to be a core engineer at a rapidly growing fintech with a big vision
• Able to solution features and capabilities within the platform, with good code quality and velocity
• Prepared to take on responsibilities such as implementing integrations with third-party systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, designing and developing APIs, and contributing to system improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• 3–5 years of experience as a software engineer
• 3+ years of experience in application architecture, design, and development, particularly with frameworks (NestJS, , etc.)
• 3+ years of experience developing client-facing front-end applications using a modern web framework, Angular preferred
• Proficient with SQL and experience with relational databases like Postgres
• Familiarity and experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and build systems
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining cloud-native applications (preferably AWS)
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and other application and cloud security best practices, including secure API design, data protection, identity and access management, and vulnerability monitoring in cloud environments (e.g., AWS)

Bonus

• Familiarity with AWS DevSecOps processes and experience with SOC2 compliance
• Experience designing and building event-driven services on AWS
• Experience with a headless CMS, specifically Strapi
• Experience working at a startup
• Domain knowledge:
• HR tech, including HCM data models and integrations with payroll and HCM systems (ADP, UKG, Workday)
• Fintech, including core banking and concepts such as Banking as a Service (BaaS), integrations, and payments

Qualitative Characteristics

• Mission-driven
• Contributes to a culture of belonging
• Constant student who's also willing to teach others on the team
• Systems thinker who understands the value of "the little things"
• Capable of communicating the stakeholder value of a feature beyond its pure functionality

Location: Remote Working from:

US – Virginia, ideally Richmond, VA or Northern Virginia

We are mostly remote, but have occasional in-person gatherings and working days.

Sunny Day Fund Overview

Sunny Day Fund is a venture-backed company on a mission to enable better financial well-being for all 152M American workers
, starting with employer-rewarded emergency savings. And we invite you to join our mission.

Our Values

• Respect – Mutual respect powers mutual success
• Collaboration – Brighter Together
• Urgency – Our Impact Can't Wait
• Resilience – Tenacity to Bend, Not Break
• Kaizen – "Good Enough" Isn't Good Enough
• Data-Driven – The Journey to Happiness Can Be Measured
• Transparency – Let's Be Clear

Compensation

• $80k–$100k (USD) base salary
• Competitive equity (Restricted Stock Awards, which are better than options)
• Company milestone-driven bonuses

Benefits

• Remote working
• Sunny Day Fund – our own workplace emergency and personal savings program with up to $2,000 of cash rewards, no restrictions or penalties to withdraw
• Health, dental, and vision insurance reimbursement (QSEHRA) – fully covers Silver plans and 80%+ of Gold plans
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k)
• Schedules flexible outside of outcomes and standups
• Team events and outings

Note
Due to the sensitive nature of our data, we are looking for full-time U.S.-based employees to join our team. We are not seeking contractors or recruiters.