Build the backbone of a high-scale, ML-powered credit platform—ship services that expand a Line of Credit product used nationwide, and do it on a remote-first team that actually ships.
About Tilt (formerly Empower)
Tilt is rebuilding consumer credit with mobile-first products and machine-learning models that look beyond traditional scores, using 250+ real-time financial signals. The Thrive platform is a core revenue driver, and this role shapes its next chapter—speed, security, and scale.
Schedule
- Full-time, remote (US)
- Team: Engineering → Line of Credit (Thrive)
- Travel: Company offsites ~2x/year
What You’ll Do
- Architect, build, and enhance backend services for the Thrive Line of Credit and future products
- Evolve the platform to support multiple financial products and instruments
- Strengthen fraud detection and prevention systems end to end
- Ship customer features and internal tools with reliability, performance, and scale in mind
- Collaborate with Product, Credit/Finance, Compliance, Support, and Analytics
- Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and roadmap planning
- Raise the bar on code quality, security hardening, and operational excellence
What You Need
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production-grade coding skills
- Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive backends
- Fluency in cloud-native architectures and modern backend frameworks
- Track record shipping consumer-facing features at scale
- Ability to translate product requirements into robust technical designs
- Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration chops
- Comfortable leveraging AI dev tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment, Factory) to boost delivery
Benefits
- Estimated base: $120K–$195K + equity
- Remote-first with WFH setup reimbursement
- Flexible health plans with substantial subsidies
- Direct visibility to leadership; growth tied to impact, not timelines
- Paid global offsites; supportive, no-ego culture
Hiring is active—senior seats go fast.
Build systems that unlock fair credit at scale.
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