Founding Backend Engineer
Posted 99ds ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Founding backend engineer at Dealflow, a next-gen invoicing platform. Empowering SMBs with financial expertise and transforming capitalism through innovative social financial tools.
Responsibilities:
- Translate technical requirements into detailed backend designs that creates tier 1 scalable systems and a joyful experience for the customer.
- Be responsible for driving innovation, maintainability, improving performance, scalability, and creating headless systems under strict timelines.
- 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?
- 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:
- Experience in python (4+ years)
- Experience in AWS ecosystem (4+ years)
- Experience with banking integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
- Experience with accounting integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
- Experience with payment gateways and processors like Stripe (1+ years)
- Experience with backend development and different technologies (MQ’s, cache’s, architectural patterns, etc..)
- Experience with writing tests (Unit / Integration / Performance)
- Hands on with performance and optimisation problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Extreme attention to detail, obsession for scalable systems
- Hands-on with CI/CD We use GitHub Actions, AWS code deploy
- Working knowledge of cyber security
- 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.


















