What is Maza?

Maza is building the best digital banking app for native + bilingual Spanish speakers in the US. By eliminating predatory fees and empowering customers’ finances through a 100% digital experience, we level - up our customers into the ranks of “smart money.”

Maza, currently in stealth mode, is backed by some of the top VC firms and angels who believe in this mission, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, SV Angel, co-founder of Plaid, Rappi, Rippling, etc.

Maza’s co-founders, Luciano, Siggy, and Robbie are all first-generation Latino immigrants. We’ve helped our parents, siblings, and cousins navigate a financial system that can be challenging and predatory unless you know what you’re doing.

Maza aims to become the #1 banking option for Latinos in the US. Our platform currently offers a digital checking and savings account combined with a Visa debit card (available on both iOS + Android).

Why digital banks?

Consumer banking is undergoing a digital revolution right now – online only banks like Maza are able to scale and deliver features with significantly lower costs than traditional incumbents who have tens of thousands of branches all over the United States. Imagine your bank is spending $50k a month just on their branch lease; where would they make up the cost? Usually that cost is passed onto you in the form of fees: overdraft fees, minimum account balance fees, fees to request a new debit card, etc.

Why do we need a bank for Latinos?

Big banks tend to provide one size fits all solutions when we know folks have very different needs, often dictated by socioeconomic and cultural factors. Some examples:

• Many Latino families travel back and forth to their home country to visit family members – so we’ve gotten rid of foreign transaction fees for users.
• We know some folks would prefer to chat with customer support in Spanish – so we do our phone support 100% in Spanish.
• Whatsapp is the most popular messaging service in Latin America – so our customers can just use Whatsapp to get communicate with and get help from Maza.
• Those are just some of the differentiating features Maza provides and we’ll be rolling out more as we continue to build!

Why should I apply?

We’re an early stage company and believe that the most effective engineers are curious, creative, and feel strong ownership over their work. We want folks who love the craft of what they do and want to use their skills to bring an empowering product to life for our customers. We believe we are doing the most impactful work of our careers at Maza and believe you will too if you join us. If you care deeply about how and what you are building, please reach out, we would love to talk to you!

What will I be doing?

We are hiring a senior engineer to join our engineering team and work on bringing the best consumer banking experience to our customers.

You will report to Siggy, CTO & co-founder, and work closely with the rest of the engineering team to:

• Work with product and design stakeholders to create the best consumer banking app for our customers.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and other colleagues to ship features end to end.
• Help define our practices for shipping changes, collecting metrics and feedback, and iterating on user experience.
• Find opportunities for automation and efficiency gains when it comes to our build, release, and testing systems.
• Strike the right balance between velocity and code quality.
• Ship code that will run on iOS, Android, and the web.

Who You Are

• You have 2+ years of experience shipping mobile apps in production to the app store.
• You are passionate about user experience and obsess over the details of a product’s user interactions.
• You are organized and self-sufficient.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You love learning new things: technologies, UX patterns, tools, etc.
• Expertise in one or more of the the following stacks:
  • iOS
  • Android
  • React Native
  • Flutter
• You do not need to be a React Native expert to make an impact; we believe that the right candidate can bring skills from any of these adjacent technologies and ramp up on the particulars of React Native.

Our mobile app is the primary way that customers interact with our offerings. We have an RN (React Native) app released in the iOS App Store that we plan on bringing to Android and Web in the coming months. For a consumer bank, it is imperative that our UX is intuitive, trustworthy, and localized in Spanish and English. Customers want to feel that their checking accounts are safe and secure with Maza. When making sensitive actions like sending a payment or initiating a transfer, high quality UX means making sure customers feel confident with what they’re doing and will not make costly mistakes.

Our Stack

• GraphQL
• NodeJS
• Typescript
• PostgreSQL
• React Native
• Google Cloud