Sequin

East bay, remote, sf, silicon valley
< 10 employees
< 10 engineers
$5m - $10m funding
Pre-series a

Sequin (Visa partner, IDEO & Schwab backed) is a woman-founded fintech on a mission to get women the credit we deserve. Sequin is building a first of its kind autonomous financial platform to guide women towards favorable credit outcomes and create accessible lending products across life’s needs. Currently, Sequin is in a ~100 woman private beta with exciting results - in just one week, women experienced a 20 point credit score increase on average with thousands of women on the waitlist.

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Why join us?

  • Sequin's backers and investors include Visa, IDEO, Schwab. The founder is a fintech veteran, with years of experience at the center of the ecosystem building credit cards at Visa.

  • Sequin has received strong market traction to date and boasts 3000 women on its waitlist (with no marketing) - organic features in the Washington Post, Fast Company, and Creditcards.com.

  • Sequin's mission to get women the credit we deserve is both a powerful social enterprise and huge, underserved business opportunity ($65B in the U.S. alone).


Engineering at Sequin

Engineering team and processes

Sequin is hiring for its first engineer. As a founding engineer, this is an exciting opportunity to build a fintech from the ground up, set technical direction, hire, and drive the technical vision.

Technical Challenges

Sequin is at the epicenter of many partners in the payments ecosystem (Plaid, Visa, Credit Reporting Services, tbd Stripe, Dwolla, Finix etc.) Accuracy and precision are critical in partner integration and consumer-facing financial experience.

Projects you might work on
  • Currently, Sequin monitors existing credit cards, credit scores, and sends SMS alerts to customers to make micro - credit card payments (and boost credit scores).

  • You would be building a platform to support multiple credit cards, and pay those cards off from within a single Sequin credit platform on behalf of users.

  • Sequin will be an intermediary in the credit card payment path and front the credit card payment to improve the liquidity of customers.

Tech stack
React
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL

Working at Sequin

At Sequin, we lead with our head, hands, and heart. We're a small team (the founder and a few interns) and feel strongly in our mission and dual-bottom lines.

Diversity and Inclusion

Sequin is a woman-founded, woman-focused fintech. The founder is a first generation immigrant, BIPOC and celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We practice confidence without attitude and a students always mentality.

Perks & benefits
  • Women-led company

    The founder identifies as a woman.

  • Social impact driven

    Our mission is to get women the credit we deserve.

  • Serves underrepresented populations

    Financial services for women is the single largest underserved opportunity globally.

Our Team by the Numbers
Company-wide
Women
100%
BIPOC
100%
Leadership
Women
100%
BIPOC
100%
Board
Women
100%
BIPOC
100%

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