Senior Software Engineer, Found
$145-225k
Plus equity
Business banking for the self-employed
Job no longer available
Business banking for the self-employed
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$145-225k
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To simplify finances for the self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience with backend and frontend frameworks and technologies
- Advocated for and rolled out new technologies / open-source frameworks that empowered prior engineering organizations
- Experience with relational databases and working with large-scale databases
- A passion for writing clean, simple, and self-documenting code
Desirable
- Experience or interest in financial services, accounting, and/or self-employment
- Experience as a manager, tech lead, or an architect
- Experience driving initiatives across an organization or a company
- Experience building fault-tolerant systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that is excited to build customer-facing and internal-facing products that directly drive business impact
- You'll be responsible for shaping our long-term technical vision and setting a high-quality bar
- Collaborate with product, design, or other cross-functional teams to build and ship products (consumer-facing or internal)
- Build useful request tracing
- Deploy easy-to-use experimentation frameworks
- Build, maintain, and iterate code quickly and safely
- Some recent team accomplishments include:
- Rolling out a net new workflow engine to make long running and background tasks more reliable, easier to introspect, and easier to retry (Temporal)
- Scaling (successfully) our request volume by 100% Month over Month every month for the last 6 months
- Rolling out an experimentation and feature flagging framework for authenticated and unauthenticated users across all our sites and apps
- Averaging 100 production deployments / month
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Traditionally, freelancers have been burdened with the need to juggle multiple tools and solutions to handle their bookkeeping, invoices, and tax responsibilities. In response to this challenge, Found was established with a mission to simplify financial management for the self-employed, providing them with precious time, cost savings, and peace of mind.
Established by two former Square executives with experience in payroll and SaaS solutions, Found functions as a financial hub for freelancers. It enables users to seamlessly manage their finances by offering services such as income deposits, the issuance of dedicated company debit cards, and tax calculations. Additionally, Found equips freelancers with real-time business insights and streamlines the process of making quarterly tax payments.
As the gig economy continues to thrive, the number of self-employes individuals has seen remarkable growth in recent years. In light of this trend, Found is dedicated to capitalizing on the opportunity by expanding its marketing efforts and enhancing its product offerings. Through these strategic moves, Found aims to further support its ever-growing customer base.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$60m
SERIES B
May 2021
$12.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.3m
Company benefits
- 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation
- Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave
- Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits are always 100% covered for employees, 75% covered for dependents
- Work anywhere: We have Found offices in both SF and Seattle and for team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working
- Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees
- Flexible vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need, whenever you need to with our flexible time-off policy
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Lauren Myrick
(CEO)Studied Economics at UC Santa Barbara, and joined Deloitte as an Associate. Worked in Finance at EmSense Corporation, and was General Manager of Payroll at Square.
Connor Dunn
(CIO)Studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and worked as a Software Engineer at Trigger Corp. Was an Engineering Lead at Square.
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