Job Summary
Our partner is a young startup with a bold vision to become the commerce and financial technology backbone of construction - one of the world’s largest industries. Founded by serial entrepreneurs with exits to Fortune 500 companies (including Paypal), Their company has partnered with prominent VC funds in Silicon Valley to build a world-class team with a mission to digitize and democratize construction material purchasing. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level an industry-transforming company.
The company is the people they hire. They aspire to build a team of smart, high-caliber players that inspire each other to excel yet are not afraid to leave egos behind, roll up their sleeves and fix what doesn’t work. They don’t believe in micromanagement and trust their team to take full ownership of their responsibilities. They believe in transparency as a way to build trust, break communication barriers, and align towards a common goal. Finally, they want their people to stay and grow with the company and the only way to achieve this is by providing them with above-market-rate compensation, premier benefits, and generous stock options.
They're looking for a Backend Engineer with experience building high-performance microservices and APIs. This is the job for someone that cares about building large, scalable, performant production systems running on modern cloud infrastructure (AWS).
About you:
You are excited about startups and new products
You enjoy building systems from the ground up
You realize that products are built iteratively and specs evolve with customer feedback
You care about system and code design: well-architected code is easier to understand, refactor, evolve, and inherit
You enjoy building highly scalable and low latency systems
You care about products that have a massive economic impact and have an interest in FinTech
What they look for:
BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2-5+ years of production level experience in Go, Java, Scala, or C++.
Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
Experience working with SQL databases
Experience with microservices, distributed systems, data serialization protocols (protobufs), stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
Experience with Go is a plus
Experience with GraphQL is a plus
Benefits
Flexible time off
Equity awards (after working for at least 3 months)
Gym reimbursement
Annual personal development fund
Swanky new work laptop
Work headphones reimbursement
Regular offsites at fun locations
