Software Engineer

CommonBond is building the leading values-driven, customer-centric financial services company and is looking for people who want to help our company grow. Our mission starts by tackling the broken student lending market and changing the way people think about student loans. We accomplish this with lower interest rates for our borrowers, a state-of-the art technology platform, and high-touch customer service.

CommonBond is building a new kind of value-driven financial services company! We are beginning our mission by tackling the broken student lending market. We are changing the way people think about student loans with lower borrowing costs, a state-of-the art technology platform, and high touch customer advocacy. We are backed by great investors, have a killer team, and are growing exponentially.

We are seeking a highly talented developer with entrepreneurial instincts, a strong sense of product, and a desire to build something from the ground up. This person has the opportunity to impact all levels of our technology development as well as the broader team as we grow. * Collaborate in designing, architecting, building, testing, and maintaining world-class web application and data management software on all layers of development * Work across product, marketing, legal, business development, and operations teams to build and improve our core products while designing and building out a technical infrastructure capable of supporting a rapidly expanding organization on into the future * Test site layouts to optimize conversion across different sources of traffic * Develop techniques and analytical procedures to test and monitor user engagement and marketing effect * Anticipate the user experience and contribute to entire product development process, including spec development and QA

* Strong theoretical background * 4-7 years of experience working at a blue-chip software company and/or at a compelling startup * Significant experience working in database design, front-end development, and application-level business logic development * Familiarity with PHP or a similar enterprise-class scripting language a plus * Passionate about our mission to make student's lives easier and disrupt finance in the process * Excellent eye for design * Ability to work in a complex environment and prioritize among competing demands * Desire to collaborate with an extraordinary team and to be part of true innovation