Mid/Senior Backend Engineer, Spade
$170-230k
+ Equity grant
2+ days a week in office
Financial data enrichment API
Open for applications
Financial data enrichment API
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$170-230k
+ Equity grant
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building and scaling backend Python-based systems in fast-paced environments
- Proven capability with developing REST APIs and writing performant SQL
- Experience building using AWS infrastructure
- Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
- A customer-focused mindset, strong problem solving skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while delivering value to customers
- A collaborative mindset, the ability to be mentored, and a focus on your own growth trajectory
- Based in NYC with ability to work out of our Flatiron office at least 2 days/week
Desirable
- Proficiency in Django
- Familiarity with data science and analytics tools such as Pyspark, Databricks and Delta Lake, and Hex
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools like AWS CDK
- Experience with transaction, merchant, and/or location data
- Experience and/or interest in fintech and/or data products
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer at Spade, you'll own the APIs and data systems that sit at the heart of our enrichment platform
- You'll work across the full backend stack — from the developer-facing APIs our customers depend on, to the data pipelines and platform services that power our data science team
- This is a high-ownership role on a small team, where your decisions directly shape the performance and reliability of products processing billions of transactions
- Collaborate on our technical vision to build a product customers love
- Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable developer-facing APIs and a robust data platform supporting our data science team
- Design and implement systems that support the growth of the product and the company
- Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
- Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade
Our take
Founded in 2021, Spade is a universal transaction enrichment API built for fintech companies. Often there is a vast amount of data that cannot be tracked or is not provided within transactions. Sometimes the name used isn't the company name, the geo data is different to where you paid etc. So this is where Spade wants to build a new generation in fintech infrastructure.
The company has developed an API that enhances all the data details around financial activity, fraud detection, merchant matching, and category organisation. These are all super appealing features for Spade customers to get to know their users’ spending habits better and keep internet banking secure.
Spade attracted considerable Series A funding when it was just two years old, demonstrating the need for this product in the market. With this funding, the company has worked on expanding its team and developed its merchant intelligence product and now boasts clients like Stripe, Bilt, Corpay, Mercury, and Unit.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2026
$40m
SERIES B
Dec 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62.4m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Oban MacTavish
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Hubly. More recently worked as an Investment Analyst at Cove Street Capital (CSC).
Cooper Hart
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founded Spade in October 2021.
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