Parafin partners with platforms to deliver seamless, flexible access to financing, giving small businesses the capital they need to grow with confidence. Backed by Redpoint.
About the role
Manage and grow a team of 5-6 engineers spanning Data storage and schema, Feature Store/ML Platform, and Underwriting Platform, including hiring, mentorship, and career development. Set and drive execution and technical strategy for the team's three areas: warehouse/data infrastructure (Databricks, Airflow, dbt), the feature store and ML dev lifecycle (feature materialization, training, batch/real-time inference, model registry), and underwriting pipelines
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role, ideally in data infrastructure, ML platform, or a similar backend/data domain
- Ability to stay close to the team’s execution, review/discuss technical designs and trade-offs
- Strong understanding of modern data/lakehouse stacks: Spark/PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, and cloud infra (AWS)
- Experience with ML infrastructure concepts: feature stores, model training/serving pipelines, model registries, batch and real-time inference
- Track record of managing engineers with empathy, giving direct feedback, and building a healthy, high-ownership team culture
- Experience building strong teams by hiring to a high technical bar and actively growing engineers' careers
More about this role
At Parafin, we’re on a mission to grow small businesses.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but traditional banks often don’t have their backs. We build tech that makes it simple for small businesses to access the financial tools they need through the platforms they already sell on.
We partner with companies like DoorDash, Amazon, Worldpay, and Mindbody to offer fast and flexible funding, spend management, and savings tools to their small business users via a simple integration. Parafin takes on all the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer service for our partners.
We’re a tight-knit team of innovators hailing from Stripe, Square, Plaid, Coinbase, Robinhood, CERN, and more — all united by a passion for building tools that help small businesses succeed. Parafin is backed by prominent venture capitalists including GIC, Notable Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Thrive Capital. Parafin is a Series C company, and we have raised more than $194M in equity and $340M in debt facilities.
Join us in creating a future where every small business has the financial tools they need.
The Data Platform team owns the systems...
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