Solutions Architect

Wellthi Technologies - We are modernizing an ancient social banking tradition that has worked for centuries 

We build social banking solutions for banks, governments and affinity groups. Our technology is designed to help clients leverage the power of AI, big data, online communities and positive peer pressure to attract and retain new customer segments.

We offer a simple, customizable social banking wallet and mobile apps that allow financial services companies, organizations and governments to enable group savings goals and payments, person-to-person payments, communal payments, social networking and set-asides on a virtual wallet through one recognizable, consistent consumer brand. The Wellthi API can be integrated into any bank card or bank account.

Learn more about us - https://wellthiapp.com

About Us:

Wellthi is a venture-backed fintech company based in Washington, DC and Nairobi, Kenya. Our company offers a suite of white label social banking APIs, apps and affinity cards designed that institutions can license to increase the lifetime value of customers.

About the position:

As a solutions architect, you will be responsible for building, improving, and influencing the design of our core integrations with our largest financial institution partners. This involves updating products, features, and services across our entire stack to ensure seamless experiences for our customers, consumers, and partners. It is the most mission-critical component of our infrastructure as it connects millions of bank accounts and billions of transactions to Plaid.

We’re architected around decoupled services. We are looking for someone to come in and help piece together a long-term roadmap for how these services need to work together to ensure reliable, high-quality data access .

We're guided by our principles, including impact, growing together, embracing openness and positivity, and inventing tomorrow; we're looking for people motivated by those same principles.

If you are looking for the fast track with a high growth startup, this is it! We will need you to dive right in. 

What excites us:

• 15+ years of production experience, core fundamentals, and a strong command of at least one language

• Background in computer science, engineering, or another related field and a strong track record of building interesting fintech projects

• Pragmatism. Someone who actively considers the fine balance between shipping speed and perfection

• Impact driven. You understand that building the right tools and systems can impact millions of users.

• Adaptability. Most of our engineering team works across the entire stack, touching everything from the front-end, mobile, and our core infrastructure.

You may be fit for this role if you:

• Extensive experience in financial technology and building or integrating financial solutions and software development kits for financial institutions

• Experience working with bank core processors like Fiserv, FIS, Plaid, Jack Henry or Marqueta

• Broad knowledge of banking & financial sector from a solution's design & API platform point of view

• Experience in full-stack development and software architecture patterns, able to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other

• Great communication skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Interest in solving open-ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking

• Expertise in API Platforms/Gateways

• Deep experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex applications

• Have previous experience working within a fast-paced, startup environment

You should include these in your application:

• Your resume, Github, or LinkedIn page

• Links to code or other work of which you’re particularly proud

• References (Minimum 3)

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Commission and equity based upon key performance indicators

• Opportunity to build a cutting edge FinTech solution with two of the largest financial institutions in the world