Staff Software Engineer, Found
Platform
$181-241k
+ Equity
Business banking for the self-employed
Job no longer available
Business banking for the self-employed
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$181-241k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify finances for the self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience with backend technologies
- Experience writing production code in Ruby, Go, or Python
- Experience working in a public cloud environment
- Proven track record of scaling and troubleshooting production systems or services
- Strong fundamental knowledge of SLAs and SLOs, as well as ideas around how to implement them at a fast-paced company
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals such as coredns/kubedns, vertical and horizontal pod autoscaling
- Familiarity with troubleshooting using tcpdump or wireshark
Desirable
- Experience with opentelemetry, statsd, or Prometheus
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks like PCI and SOC2
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, cloudformation, etc)
- Interest in financial services, accounting, and/or self-employment
What the job involves
- Our engineering team is responsible for taking products from ideation to being used by tens of thousands of users every week
- We’re responsible for everything from building the product to technical operations (and everything in between such as getting better with outages, improving reliability, and reducing tech debt…)
- We are looking for a Software Engineer - Reliability who knows how to balance moving fast while moving safely, understands (and loves) SLOs and SLAs, and has experience scaling systems from 1 to 10 to 100
- Some recent team accomplishments include:
- Scaling (successfully) our request volume by 100% Month over Month (every month for the last 2 years)
- Designing and launching model serving infrastructure in Google Cloud for our risk systems
- Building and maintaining the infrastructure to support hundreds of deployments per month across a team of 30 engineers
- You will design and implement developer tooling that makes deployments safer, reproducible, and easy to slowly rollout (or rollback)
- Architect (with the rest of the team) the future version(s) of our key systems taking into account order of magnitude scaling every year
- Partner with company operations and engineering to achieve and maintain compliance standards such as PCI and SOC2
- Add or improve introspection for all our key systems, identify scaling bottlenecks, and work with engineering on resolving them
- Own shared services such as feature flagging, experimentation, in-app messaging, etc
- Mentor engineering on how to design reliable, fault-tolerant, systems and easy-to-use runbooks for when things go wrong
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-employed individuals has seen remarkable growth in recent years. In light of this trend, Found is dedicated to capitalising 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
Leadership
Lauren Myrick
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & 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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