Finn.ai Hiring for Intermediate Software Engineer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Join an exciting enterprise SaaS FinTech startup that is using artificial intelligence to change how consumers interact with banks and credit unions.

About Us

Finn AI is a rapidly-growing cloud based SaaS company specializing in providing virtual assistants to banks and credit unions to improve service quality, acquire customers and help consumers manage their money. Working with banks across four continents, including some of the world’s largest brands, our Conversational Banking product is changing how people interact with banks (i.e., their money).

Leveraging our proprietary AI stack for natural language understanding and the richest banking domain data model with a library of pre-built use cases in the industry, we are uniquely positioned to help banks and credit unions evolve their default experience to a smart virtual personal banker.

To learn more visit www.finn.ai or follow us on LinkedIn.

The Opportunity

Finn AI is a market leader in an early and rapidly growing market. Our solution helps consumers ‘chat’ to their bank, whenever and wherever they want, simplifying the experience, extending service 24/7 and driving efficiency.

We have a strong cohort of customers including ATB Financial, Banpro, Tyme Bank, United FCU, BECU, and more – alongside partners including Visa, AWS, MX, Q2, Glia, Twilio, and more.

Finn AI is a well-funded series-A startup with a fully agile product development methodology. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our web application development team, to design, develop and operate our award-winning conversational AI applications for the banking industry.

If you are a solid JavaScript or TypeScript developer, this is the job for you. The application team mainly uses React.js, Node.js and k8s, along with other latest technologies to implement full-stack web applications. There are endless learning opportunities at Finn AI, and we are not afraid to change what we have to make a bigger impact. Working in an integrated agile team, you will also be given ample opportunity to architect, design and build the best solutions you can. You will have the freedom to introduce your cool ideas and contribute to the company’s bottom line directly by increased efficiency, improved quality, and reduced cost. In a flat startup organization like ours, you will earn the trust and respect of your team and colleagues. We not only support, but encourage you to explore many different possibilities for your career paths.

So if you love to work in an agile environment, can take care of business from design to deployment, and want to see your product delight users, you will find yourself right at home here.

Your Responsibilities:
Perform end to end engineering of Finn AI proprietary chatbot and other business applications, from design, development and testing, to deployment and production support.

Contribute to the technical design and implementation of specific product areas

Perform code reviews for your peers

When required, participate in production support, including deployment, training, setting up and incident response in a timely fashion

Contribute to automation tools to aid development, testing and delivery of customer and product requirements

Take individual responsibilities to drive timely execution of projects and sprints, including estimates, status updates and reviews

Strive to be full-stack developers, capable of contributing to backend, frontend, database, configuration, AI, automation and infrastructure

Uphold the quality of the product or features, including unit test, functional test, integration, performance, security and scalability

Understand and contribute to company best practices for code quality and velocity

Participate in architecture design and decisions, communicate significance/impact of a solution with management

Produce documentation on code, system design, architecture and solutions

Produce external-facing quality documents on design, user guides and API documentation

Adhere to company security requirements

Complete any other related task or responsibility as defined by the Software Engineering Manager

Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor degree in computer science, software engineering, development, or equivalent experience

Minimum 3 years of software engineering industry experience, with at least 2 years in a software development role

Great team player contributing to create good team culture

Strong experience building frontend applications using React.js or an equivalent modern framework

Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Express, and other related technologies

Experience with Docker, K8s, and AWS

Strong experience with REST API design and implementation

Experience with web application security principles and best practices

Experience in supporting live SaaS production system, with performance and scalability

Experience in agile methodologies, processes and code repository management

Experience in good software engineering practices, design patterns and common systems architecture

Ability to define problems and challenges to address as well as experiments to perform

Ability to conduct research and analysis, clearly identify and communicate findings and recommendations

Excellent verbal and technical writing skills to document and present your ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Familiarity with software engineering related technical documentation conventions, formats and terminologies

Experience with messaging applications, including web and mobile apps, especially creating frontend SDKs for mobile and web applications

Experience integrating with chatbot and messaging services such as FB, WhatsApp, Twilio

Perks and Benefits Package include:
Competitive compensation rates and vacation time

Stock options in a fast-growing company

Medical, dental, and extended health benefits

Parental Leave

Flexible working hours, a collaborative, team-based environment

Team events and celebrations

We are hiring directly or through personal networks and will not accept recruiter referrals.

• To meet our compliance obligations we require successful candidates to undergo security screenings including a criminal record check before coming on board. We focus strictly on offenses that are directly relevant to employment at Finn AI, and abide by all applicable human rights and privacy legislation.