Associate Software Engineer (UI)

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Self 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.

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Self 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.

About the Role

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We’re growing our Frontend Engineering team at Self. As an Associate Frontend Software Engineer, you’ll help build Self Financial’s mobile app and web experiences while learning from experienced engineers on a high-performing team.

This role is designed for someone early in their engineering career, typically with 0-3 years of professional experience. You’ll contribute to customer-facing features, improve your frontend fundamentals, and build high-quality software in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with frequent releases.

We care deeply about creativity, quality, learning, and delivering an innovative user experience to a large customer base.

Responsibilities

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→Build and maintain customer-facing features across Web, iOS, and Android with support from senior engineers.
→Implement frontend functionality using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
→Contribute to React Native mobile app experiences and web experiences as part of a cross-functional product team.
→Integrate frontend components with REST APIs and third-party services such as analytics, messaging, and feature flagging tools.
→Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
→Learn and apply best practices for testing, accessibility, performance, and safe releases.
→Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, QA, and your engineering manager to ship user-focused improvements.
→Debug issues, ask good questions, and grow your understanding of Self’s frontend architecture and development practices.
→Contribute to team rituals, documentation, and continuous improvement.

0-3 years of software engineering experience, including internships, co-ops, academic projects, bootcamp projects, or professional experience.
Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern web development fundamentals.
Basic understanding of REST APIs and how frontend applications communicate with backend services.
Familiarity with Git and common software development workflows.
Interest in writing reliable, tested, accessible, and maintainable code.
Strong willingness to learn, receive feedback, and grow as part of a collaborative engineering team.

Internship, project, or professional experience with React FrameworkExperience using agentic engineering tools (e.g., Claude, OpenAI/Codex, Copilot) to accelerate development workflows.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience preferred.
Foundational experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
Experience building user interfaces with React, React Native, or similar frontend frameworks.
Personal, academic, or open-source projects that demonstrate frontend craftsmanship and product thinking.

What We Offer

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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.

✓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

✓Hybrid work arrangements/schedules

✓Paid parental leave