Senior Software Engineer, Found
Full-Stack, Risk
$145-235k
+ Equity
Business banking for the self-employed
Open for applications
Business banking for the self-employed
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$145-235k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To simplify finances for the self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience with backend and frontend frameworks and technologies
- 2+ years of experience with data systems or machine learning
- 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
- Experience working on a financial risk team
- Experience working with Data Scientists
- Comfortable running your own data analysis in SQL / R / Python
What the job involves
- Found’s Risk Engineering team is responsible for minimizing risk losses and fraudulent use of Found, while protecting good user experience and maintaining operational efficiency
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that is excited to build internal-facing products that directly drive business impact
- The work we do directly ties to how Found makes and saves money, meaning that this role will provide a significant impact across the business
- You'll be responsible for shaping our long-term technical vision and setting a high-quality bar
- Some recent team accomplishments include:
- Reduced the riskiness for important instant (debit card base) and delayed money movement methods (ACH and Check Deposits)
- Trained, developed, and deployed new machine-learning models to detect and block bad accounts during signup
- Built up a card dispute program that closely connects to card network details and built automation and tooling for our risk operations teams to be able to optimize their workflows
- Researched, built, and rolled out new online feature stores that now power most of the ML models across the company
- Day to day, you will:
- Collaborate with product engineering, risk operations, or other cross-functional teams to build and ship products
- Have ownership across a large breadth of surfaces - frontend systems, batch and stream data processing pipelines, and backend services
- Build, maintain, and iterate on code quickly and safely
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to the direction of the team
Our take
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.
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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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Leadership
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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