Staff Backend Engineer, Cube
$156.7-212.1k
+ Equity
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Spreadsheet-native FP&A
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Spreadsheet-native FP&A
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$156.7-212.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help every finance team move from reactive to strategic so every company can hit their numbers.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced Technical Leader: Typically brings 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates who demonstrate strong Staff-level impact, ownership, and technical leadership
- A Technical Strategist: You have clear, experience-backed opinions on distributed systems and long-term architecture. You don’t just solve today’s problem; you design systems that support years of growth
- Python/Django Expert: Deep knowledge of Django internals including middleware, database routing, management commands, signals, and performance optimization in high-scale, multi-tenant environments
- Systems Architect: Strong experience building and evolving distributed systems across cloud infrastructure. Comfortable debugging complex concurrency challenges such as race conditions, distributed deadlocks, async failures, and large-scale database performance issues
- Data Fluent: Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy to power data-intensive workflows and financial modeling pipelines
- Engineering Leader: Proven ability to define engineering standards, design reusable abstractions, and improve developer velocity through internal tooling and frameworks
- Efficiency Minded: Early adopter of AI-assisted engineering workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, automated refactoring, or similar tooling) to increase velocity without sacrificing reliability or code quality
- Effective Communicator: Able to clearly explain architectural trade-offs to executives, product partners, and engineers at all levels
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with FP&A domain concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflows
- The expectations above are meant to represent the ideal candidate, but if you don’t meet all of them and think you’d be a great fit for this role, please apply
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Back-End Engineer to serve as a technical North Star for our engineering organization
- In this role, you won’t just ship features; you will shape the architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits that allow our entire team to scale
- Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you will act as a highly strategic individual contributor working across multiple problem spaces
- You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to transform ambiguous business needs into robust distributed systems that power real financial workflows
- This role exists at a pivotal moment in Cube’s growth. As our platform expands in complexity and scale, we’re looking for someone who can elevate system design, improve long-term reliability, and help define what great engineering looks like across the organization
- You will take ownership of complex initiatives end-to-end, influencing infrastructure, deployment strategies, observability practices, and long-term system health
- This is an opportunity to help build scalable engineering foundations, reusable abstractions, and internal frameworks that accelerate the entire team
- Technical Leadership:
- Define the Standard: Set architectural direction and establish engineering patterns that become the golden path across teams
- Own the Core: Design and evolve complex backend systems including multi-tenant database routing, distributed task orchestration, async pipelines, and enterprise integrations
- Modernize Workflows: Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices and LLM agent systems within production environments
- Execution & Excellence:
- Ship Strategic Initiatives: Take ambiguous product goals and deliver them end-to-end, from infrastructure (CDK) and deployment to monitoring and documentation
- Observability First: Foster a culture of observability by default, owning strategies around structured logging, APM tooling, metrics, and production debugging workflows
- High-Stakes Resolution: Act as a steady technical leader during production incidents, guiding root-cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies
- Mentorship & Culture:
- Elevate the Team: Remove technical blockers, mentor engineers, and promote psychological safety alongside a culture of continuous improvement
- Scale the Org: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, release processes, and deployment strategies so teams can ship safely at speed
- Tech Stack:
- Python (Django + DRF)
- MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery
- AWS (deployed via CDK), CI/CD automation
- JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Redux) on the front end
- AI-driven workflows, LLM agents, enterprise integrations, and advanced observability
Our take
The uncertainty, shocks, and changes faced by organizations across the board over recent years has shone a spotlight on the importance of detailed financial planning and analysis (FP&A). It’s precipitated a change in what tools companies use, too - traditional use of excel spreadsheets doesn’t always cut it in terms of efficiency and ease-of use. FP&A startup Cube is hoping to offer a solution.
Instead of looking to replace the spreadsheet with specialist software, like startups Centage and Limelight are shooting for, Cube’s approach is different. The company is banking on customers looking for a faster, more powerful solution, but one that nevertheless retains the familiarity of excel - and its easy-integration with other areas of business operations. The result is a excel-compatible, spreadsheet bi-directional product with enhanced planning features like automated data consolidation, multi-scenario analysis, and drilldown audit trail capabilities.
Investors are betting on Cube’s approach proving popular. Cube has attracted some impressive funding, and the addressable market is potentially huge; for a relatively young startup, Cube has seen good growth with a unique product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$20m
LATE VC
Jun 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $65.1m
Company benefits
- HQ'd in NYC
- Flexible PTO
- Flex Days
- Early-stage equity
- Health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- 401k with one of the top firms for companies our size
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Christina Ross
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked on the Financial Management Program and Corporate Audit Staff at GE, before moving into Finance Transformation Management Consulting with Deloitte. Subsequently worked as Head of Finance at Rent the Runway, then Criteo, then moved into a CFO role at Eyeview.
Josh Holat
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously the Lead Developer at Mirrorgram, before moving on to co-found and serve as CTO at StageBloc. Subsequently served as Senior Director at Fullscreen Media.
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