Founding Backend Engineer - Remote Eligible

Dealflow

Dealflow is a next-generation invoicing platform that helps online entrepreneurs send and pay invoices in one place with joyful UX. It is the only platform in the market that allows...

Tasks

1. Translate technical requirements into detailed backend designs that creates tier 1 scalable systems and a joyful experience for the customer.
2. Be responsible for driving innovation, maintainability, improving performance, scalability, and creating headless systems under strict timelines.
3. Lead backend engineering and solve complex problems such as:
• Ensuring optimal schema design, 100% uptime and high-end security.
• Credit scoring system → what's the best way to gamify the credit scoring experience for our customers while ensuring a high ROI on lending bets?
• Invoice matching algorithm → what's the optimal way to match invoices to deposits accurately at scale when we lack information?
• Payment orchestration → how can we best optimise our payment orchestration to lower our costs and increase our margins?
• Analytics system → how can we set up an analytics system that tracks all relevant numbers?
4. Integrate our technology with the following external systems:
• Payment processors like Stripe.
• Open banking platforms like Plaid.
• Accounting systems like QuickBooks and Economic

Bonus points for submitting your application with GitHub links to applications you have developed

Requirements

1. Experience in python (4+ years)
2. Experience in AWS ecosystem (4+ years)
3. Experience with banking integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
4. Experience with accounting integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
5. Experience with payment gateways and processors like Stripe (1+ years)
6. Experience with backend development and different technologies (MQ's, cache's, architectural patterns, etc..)
7. Experience with writing tests (Unit / Integration / Performance)
8. Hands on with performance and optimisation problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
9. Extreme attention to detail, obsession for scalable systems
10. Hands-on with CI/CD
11. We use GitHub Actions, AWS code deploy
12. Working knowledge of cyber security
13. Experience with postman

Benefits

• Salary: Starting at €5000 / month. Includes serious warrants 1 - 7%, depending on the match. Clear timeline to promotion / cash and equity bonuses.
• Remote-first team: We're based across US, EU and Asia, with plans to bring in team members from all sorts of places.
• Flexible working hours: We use meetings when needed and not per default.
• We take care of you: Weekly remote team lunches, high quality tea, covered co-working space. Overall we'll get you whatever you need.
• Make a big difference: Take, own and implement decisions to build Dealflow. We are not rushing to market but focus on a quality product and the big little details.

How will we assess things?

We care about dialogue. In many cases, we might learn more about you from the questions you ask us, than we do from the questions we ask you.

Our steps:

1. Initial interview with Seb (30 - 45 minutes): Let's talk about what makes you, you, and technical your accomplishments so far.
2. Technical challenge. We want to see how you approach a difficult problem.
3. Final interview with Seb (1h)
4. Reference call with your (former) colleagues. At the same time you'll get to talk to one of our investors and one of our advisors. There you can ask any question.
5. We make an offer