Our Company
Aura is a technology company that provides small, affordable loans to working families in America. We give our customers access to fairly priced credit and we help them build up their credit scores. We have raised over $100M to date from investors including First Mark Capital, Revolution Ventures and Coppel Capital. We have been named to the INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America, American Banker’s 2019 Best Places to Work in Financial Technology and we are ranked #23 on the San Francisco Business Times’ Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies.
Our Values
We are a tight-knit team of highly talented, hardworking, and motivated people from a diverse set of backgrounds and industries, all tenaciously motivated by our mission. We value creativity, courage, and collaboration and we believe in letting the best and most creative ideas rise to the top. We are looking for outstanding people who want to work hard, have fun, and build a socially-minded, profitable, and enduring business in the process.
What we are looking for at Aura:
- You collaborate with engineers, and influence technical processes and cross functional teams along with providing the technical knowledge for continued project success.
- You facilitate Engineering for gaining clarity in requirements, help schedule project timelines and work with Engineering Leadership to arrange resources and drive solving technical problems.
- You have the personality to surface issues, communicate risks and provide status reports to various Engineering/Product/Business teams at frequent intervals.
- You work closely with Product Management & Engineering on project planning, setting targets and deliverables, and making decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Manage cross-functional software engineering programs and projects
- Work across business units to understand their use cases and existing solutions
- Collaborate with Product & Engineering teams to drive the product roadmaps
- Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery
- Address bottlenecks, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
- Perform risk management and change management on projects
- Drive project commitments and maintain clear chains of accountability
Required Skills & Background:
- 3+ years of technical project/program management experience; including experience with scrum & other agile methodologies
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with the entire software development lifecycle from inception, to testing to production deployment and maintenance
- Ability to manage multiple parallel projects and deliver quality releases on schedule
- Interpersonal skills; including relationship building, expectations management and collaboration with diverse cross-functional teams
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
Bonus points to have:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Start-up experience in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of product development (microservices, Java), cloud technology, database technologies, analytics, quality engineering, and release models
- Familiarity with the consumer lending space
Compensation:
- Compensation is competitive and will be based on prior work experience
- Aura Options
- 401(k)
- Complimentary snacks in the office
- Convenient location in Downtown San Francisco; two blocks from BART
- We offer equity packages that allow you to have ownership in this growing company
- Full medical, dental and vision coverage. Aura pays 100% of employee premiums and 50% dependent premiums for medical, dental and vision benefits
- You can expect a collaborative environment, team building activities, dinners, and fun monthly gatherings, along with mentorship and career growth.
- We believe in getting people to where they need to go. This value extends beyond our business principles into Aura's internal career development philosophy. As such, you will work closely with a highly-experienced management team to mentor you and help you achieve your personal career goals.