About Sakura
We believe that all people are or can be creditworthy, and that hard work and careful business planning should be acknowledged, recognized, and rewarded. At Sakura, we want to make it easier for people to start a small business by extending credit before anyone else will, using alternative data about the small business. We want to be the lender of first resort to the 32 million small businesses in the United States. Sakura is a seed-stage funded startup located in the Financial District in (sometimes sunny) San Francisco.
We're hiring software engineers are interested in building software to
- Identify, aggregate, analyze alternative underwriting data for small business owners who have little to no credit history. Some of these data sources are easy to connect to (e.g. RESTful APIs with documentation), whilst others will be difficult (e.g. manual pdf uploads from the applicant), and some will be highly creative (e.g. a software vendor that most SMB restaurants use has no API—do we build web browser automation to scrape visual/HTML elements?)
- Make the process of applying for a business line of credit as smooth, easy, and transparent as possible for people of varying degrees of business and technology literacy. We believe people shouldn't be penalized from participating in modern financial services because they don't use a computer or smartphone as often as we do.
The ideal candidate should have experience working as a software engineer at a startup (even more ideally in fintech),
seek first to understand before being understood, and be able to render honest, critical feedback to anyone in the company about anything they see that can be improved. You should feel empowered to solve any problem the company has, but should also have the initiative to figure out how to solve it.
Sakura does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Qualifications
- 3+ years as a software engineer, ideally in a startup setting and/or fintech.
- Ability to work and thrive in a small group: strong communication, collaboration, and empathy
- Resourcefulness and comfort with ambiguity--we won't know the answers to everything, but we'll figure it out together.
- Strongly driven towards the goal of improving financial accessibility for current or future SMB owners
- Experience with React/Redux or equivalent frontend frameworks a plus
- Experience with Java or other strongly typed OOP a plus
- Experience with Spring or other equivalent DI/IoC tooling a plus