United States onlySelf Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.
We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
About the roleWe’re growing our Frontend Engineering team at Self. You’ll join a high-performing team building Self Financial’s mobile app and web experiences. We care deeply about creativity, quality, and delivering an innovative user experience to a large customer base in a fast-paced, “team-of-teams” environment with frequent releases.
We are hiring for multiple Frontend Engineering roles across levels. While this posting outlines the core expectations, final title and level will be determined based on demonstrated experience, scope of impact, and competencies assessed throughout the interview process. We are committed to transparent communication and will align on level and compensation expectations at each stage.
What you’ll do
- Build customer-facing experiences that feel seamless across Android, iOS, and Web.
- Integrate front-end functionality with REST APIs and third-party services (feature flags, analytics, messaging).
- Own quality: testing strategy, code reviews, accessibility, performance profiling, and safe rollout practices.
- Partner with Design and Product to brainstorm, ship, gather feedback, and iterate quickly to improve outcomes.
- Help evolve our frontend architecture (component patterns, state management, data loading, observability) to support rapid delivery at scale.
- Collaborate closely with your engineering manager, team lead, and development team to deliver an amazing frontend experience.
- Own features end-to-end with high quality and strong product instincts
- Opportunity to mentor peers, raise the bar in code reviews, and contribute to team standards
What you bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building frontend web and/or mobile applications.
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and modern frontend fundamentals (performance, accessibility, testing).
- Experience with HTML/CSS and modern web technologies (Next.js is a plus).
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs.
- Experience with common engineering tools such as Git, Jira, Confluence (or similar).
- Comfort collaborating across the stack (debugging APIs/services; experience with Python or similar is a plus).
- Bonus: GraphQL, SQL/Postgres, cloud/AWS familiarity, and experience working in an Agile environment.
What makes you stand out
- Direct experience building mobile applications for iOS and Android
- Proven ability shipping with React Native
- Experience with third-party tools such as Contentful, Braze, Segment, LaunchDarkly
Base salary is $105,000-170,000 annually. Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.
Benefits and Perks:
We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.
Our perks include:
- Company equity in the form of Stock Options
- Performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. We appreciate your understanding.
