https://www.dave.com
One of the first engineering hires @ Dave.com (Employee #18), a leading Fintech challenger bank that helps millions of people thrive financially.
June 2021: Public via SPAC fully-diluted equity value of $4 billion (NASDAQ: DAVE)
• Early engineer working alongside founders to architect and build out core banking features from the ground up — as Dave scaled from 40,000 to 8 million users, from young startup to $1 billion+ unicorn.
• Led backend architecture and development of money transfers leveraging Apple Pay, Google Pay, and external debit cards
• Collaborated on system design of flagship bank product/checking account and released to more than 8 million active users, building several RESTful microservices at scale using Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Google Cloud Project, Kubernetes, Docker, and vendor APIs
• Led language migration of mobile codebase from Javascript to Typescript+React Native to introduce strong type checking, which improved code readability and reduced production bugs
• Architected entire internal tools system used by 40+ engineers and 100+ employees in various departments using React, Redux, Typescript, Node.js, Express, and Webpack
• Integrated and maintained features using third party vendor APIs — Galileo, Synapse, and Plaid — for the cash back rewards engine and core banking services
• Designed relational database schemas in conjunction with feature requirements
• Maintained package dependencies for iOS and android mobile application
• Taught best practices through technical workshops, paired programming and code reviews
Technologies: Strong experience working with Typescript, Node, React-Native, React (Redux), MySQL, Firebase, Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
