Fullstack Engineer - Fortify
Company: Pear VC
Location: New York City
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Fortify is modernizing student financing. We're looking for a
full-stack engineer who's excited about fintech, capital markets,
and product to join us in opening up access to education. About us:
Fortify helps students succeed by giving them more affordable ways
to pay for their education, and then supporting them after they've
graduated. Since COVID, access to credit has collapsed, and
students at all kinds of schools - from at trade schools to major
universities - need financing options to afford their tuition.
Fortify exists to help educational institutions run these financing
programs more effectively, handling everything from financial aid
and scholarships to payment plans and institutional loans. We make
student financing simple - but we also go beyond financing, to help
our students be successful after they've graduated. We're building
for those who have the ambition, motivation, and wherewithal to go
to school, but are lacking the resources. Fortify is backed by Pear
VC. We're a small, very well-capitalized company. You'll be joining
a small team with a lot of expertise in fintech and lending: Both
of our cofounders are second-time founders, having started two
separate venture-backed companies in the space, and one was an
early hire at SoFi. About this role: You'll be a full-stack
engineer building Fortify's core financing platform. You'll be
given significant autonomy over new products and will own major
launches. You'll work on a very small team, and have lots of
opportunities to own design & product work if you like. You'll help
fulfill our mission of expanding access to education and promoting
economic mobility. What you might work on: Owning the architecture
and launch of an entire new product, such as a financial aid tool
to help students more easily apply for federal aid (FAFSA) or state
aid. Working on our online financing application for students who
need loans, scholarships, or aid to make their experience smoother.
Building tools to help promote financial literacy for our students
or to help them find job opportunities more easily after they
graduate. Nice-to-haves: You have had significant ownership over
production code at a tech startup. You have outstanding written
communication skills and enjoy product work as well as coding.
You're excited about fintech and working on critical code that
processes and moves money. You have experience with our tech stack:
React, Python, and Postgres. Growing at Fortify: If you're
interested in fintech, this is a unique opportunity to learn about
lending, capital markets, and payment processing. As always,
there's lots of early-stage flexibility to create your own role and
define what you'd like to work on. There will be lots of
opportunity for you to own major new products, make key design
decisions, to interview users & customers, and to grow into other
areas of the business as we scale up rapidly.
Keywords: Pear VC, Bayonne , Fullstack Engineer - Fortify, IT / Software / Systems , New York City, New Jersey
