Quick Facts
Focus: Asset-Backed Credit Card
Funding: $130+ million, Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco Bay Area
Team: 50+
Website: https://www.aven.com/
About Us
We invented a new type of credit card backed by assets (secured by equity in your home, cars, & other assets), enabling us to offer mind-bendingly low APRs to consumers. Our first product is the world’s lowest APR credit card. Come invent & change the world with us.
Who are we?
We are a well capitalized (over $130MM in equity funding) team of technology (Microsoft, Facebook), and finance (Square, Discover, CapitalOne, and Goldman) executives with top tier investors -- Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Max Levchin, NYCA, Sequoia, etc.
Our team includes people who have built
Financial products (Square/CashApp, the earliest CapitalOne credit cards)
Consumer products (Internet.org, Xbox)
Technology infrastructure (Visual Studio, Windows & Azure, helped design the C++ & C# languages)
Mathematics & science infrastructure (computational research at NASA’s JPL).
We are missionaries that like to work hard on important problems - and build products that become infrastructure for society. We believe that using technology to lower the cost of capital for consumers is one of these problems - and if we can do it, it could have a big impact on a lot of people’s lives.
Our philosophy
We are a technology company at heart - and we seek to invent & advance the state of the art to build insanely great consumer financial products - starting with the world’s first home-equity backed credit card.
We like to deeply understand the nuances & excruciating details of the systems we are building on top of - whether it be legal frameworks & regs, or APIs and 3rd party data-providers. No work is beneath any of us - from the CEO to our compliance lead - we get excited to audit our database to check each cell to ensure that they are correct and to pick up customer support calls.
We believe inventing great products happens at the intersection of extremely deep detailed domain knowledge & a very lateral thought process. We don’t like to invent for the sake of it - we do it when we think we can make something significantly better.
We value being pragmatic, rational, fast, minimalist, detailed oriented, and obsessively customer-centric.
Who are you?
We are looking for an experienced engineer who can dig deep into all aspects of a system. You will be digging into performance issues of a web application, debugging race conditions across client/server boundaries, and controlling robots across the continental United States (yes, really).
You will also be responsible for the architecture of the system, design reviews and code reviews. This role will evolve into having tech leadership responsibilities.
You can expect to work on
Anything and everything. At this early stage, you will find yourself:
Building a best in class credit card origination flow
Building a best in class video notarization solution
Helping us execute world-class growth & engagement tactics for our product
Architecting core product infrastructure to enable us to go from 0-to-1
Weighing in on strategy. Every voice is important to help inform our decisions
Influencing our tech stack.
Defining our culture. As a large % of the team, who you are shapes who we become.
Become an expert in our product space, such that you’re able to define how products should work end-to-end.
You should join us if
You have led large technically complex projects with a lot of moving parts
You have a lot of experience with a lot of disparate systems
You have worked on production grade compilers, operating systems, or large distributed systems
You can jump into a new environment and hit the ground running without much hand holding
You’re fine with us not having answers yet. You want to be part of figuring out the answers
You thrive in highly collaborative environments and are down to riff with us on anything from company mission to software architecture to user research
You enjoy diving into the deep end and feel like that’s where the greatest personal growth happens
You are fearless about learning the details, and understanding every single minute detail of an underlying system or process
Our Tech Stack:
AWS
PostgreSQL
Typescript
Python
VueJS (web)
Swift (iOs)
Kotlin (Android)
