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# Software Engineer, Product at Prelim

- **Company:** Prelim
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $140k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prelim/bf4c1a5d-32d5-4f3b-b1d2-42a3e1fd7409

## Job description

Build the platform that will power every type of financial institution onboarding

Prelim is seeking a Software Engineer, Product to join our rapidly growing and fully remote US team. You'll have the opportunity to architect and build the platform that handles every conceivable type of financial institution onboarding, from simple deposit accounts to complex treasury services for millions of people. If you're passionate about solving massive-scale engineering challenges and eager to be part of a fast-paced remote startup culture, we encourage you to apply to join our team today!

As a Software Engineer, Product at Prelim, you will own critical parts of the platform that powers digital onboarding for financial institutions across the world. You'll work directly with our customers, product team, and engineering leadership to build systems that handle everything from online deposit account opening to in-branch experiences, account maintenance, treasury services onboarding, credit card applications, and every other type of financial institution onboarding imaginable.

This isn't just another full-stack role, it's the chance to build the infrastructure that millions depend on.

Key Responsibilities:

- Architect and build features across our entire stack handling massive scale and complexity.
- Build, enhance and fix the systems that seamlessly integrate with legacy bank infrastructure, core banking systems, and third-party compliance providers.
- Solve complex technical challenges around multi-tenant architecture, real-time data processing, and bank-grade reliability requirements.
- Work directly with major banks to understand their unique onboarding requirements and translate complex business logic into elegant technical solutions.
- Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems processing millions of applications across hundreds of different banking products.

Qualifications:

- Experience with modern web technologies (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL preferred). Whether you're a new graduate with impressive projects or an experienced engineer, we want to hear from you.
- Strong system design skills and experience with scalable architectures, you'll be building systems that immediately help millions.
- You thrive on solving complex technical problems with business context. You can break down complicated banking requirements and build elegant solutions.
- You care about business impact and can balance technical excellence with shipping features that move the business forward.
- You think deeply about user experience, whether you're building for every day people opening accounts or bank employees processing applications.
- You're excited about working directly with customers, understanding their complex needs, and iterating quickly based on feedback.
- You want to own significant parts of the product and help shape technical decisions as we scale.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States and located within the continental United States

## About Prelim

Prelim is a San Francisco and New York City-based startup that operates with fully remote positions across the US, helping banks onboard their customers. Our platform is designed to streamline the account opening process for both consumers and businesses, accelerating speed-to-market and enhancing the customer experience for financial institutions. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the banking industry, we encourage you to apply and join our team at Prelim. We are seeking individuals who are driven, ambitious, and eager to make a real impact in a traditional industry ready for technological innovation.

We offer equity, a sponsored 401K, parental leave, and fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance. Additional benefits include unlimited PTO, a remote work stipend, a life-style stipend, and twice-yearly company retreats.

Prelim values diversity and inclusion; people of all backgrounds are welcome to join our mission to transform banking.

## About Prelim

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Prelim provides a digital onboarding platform for banks and credit unions to open deposit accounts, treasury services, and lending products across online, mobile, and in-branch channels.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Heang Chan (CEO) and Chris Blaser (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Fintech, Banking Software, Digital Account Opening
- Target customers: B2B – U.S. banks and credit unions (ranging from community banks to larger institutions)
- Mission or purpose statement: “To revolutionize the way financial institutions onboard new customers” by making banking faster, easier, and more accessible for both banks and their customers.

## Products & Services
- **Online Account Opening**: A SaaS platform that lets consumers and businesses open deposit accounts, credit cards, and treasury services online in minutes, with real-time core integrations and instant funding capabilities.
- **In-Branch Onboarding**: A digital solution that eliminates paperwork in branches, enabling bankers to open accounts quickly while focusing on customer relationships.
- **Account Maintenance**: Automated workflows for common maintenance tasks such as address changes, product conversions, beneficiary changes, debit card orders, and TIN/CIF changes, all integrated with core banking systems.
- **Workflow Builder & Decisioning Engine**: A configurable tool that allows banks to create custom approval chains, automate document generation, and set decisioning rules for account openings and maintenance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Total Funding**: $2.2M (across 3 rounds: Seed rounds in 2017 and a venture round in 2022)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not publicly available; estimated headcount of 28–36 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2017 batch), with participation from multiple seed investors. Partners include major core banking providers (integrations with FIS, etc.).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~9.8% YoY (28 employees on LinkedIn as of mid-2025). The company has won awards from Datos Insights, ICBA, and FIS. Actively hiring for implementation and engineering roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Omnichannel Platform**: Covers online, mobile, and in-branch onboarding from a single platform, reducing the need for banks to stitch together multiple vendors.
- **Real-Time Core Integrations**: Deep, bidirectional integrations with legacy banking cores allow instant data sync, funding, and account activation.
- **Configurable Workflows**: A no-code/low-code workflow builder lets banks customize approval chains, documents, and rules without heavy engineering effort.
- **Banking Expertise**: Founders bring combined experience from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Blend, giving them deep domain knowledge of banking pain points.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Product Suite**: Moving beyond account opening into account maintenance, treasury services, and lending onboarding to become a full-service deposit and lending platform.
- **Deepening Integrations**: Continuing to build out integrations with more core banking systems and third-party providers to reduce friction for financial institutions.
- **Scaling the Team**: Growing the implementation, engineering, and customer success teams to support a growing client base of U.S. banks and credit unions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as customer-focused, with high standards and a commitment to transforming banking. The team values proactive ownership, continuous learning, and collaboration.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-first within the US, with an annual remote work stipend. Team offsites twice a year for collaboration and planning.
- **Benefits**: 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents; monthly health and wellness stipend; equity grants; year-end performance bonuses; unlimited PTO; paid parental and pregnancy leave.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building modern infrastructure atop legacy systems, working with cutting-edge technology, and solving challenging problems in fintech. Small, high-impact team (around 30 people) where engineers can own significant projects.

## Sources
1. [Prelim Website](https://prelim.com/)
2. [Prelim About Page](https://prelim.com/about)
3. [Prelim Careers Page](https://prelim.com/careers)
4. [Y Combinator – Prelim](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prelim)
5. [LinkedIn – Prelim](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prelimsolutions)

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