Senior Software Engineer, Ottimate
Python
$150k
AP automation AI software
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AP automation AI software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make life a little easier for anyone eager to spend less time on AP and more time growing their business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes
- Proficient in Python and Django
- Debugging complex database performance issues
- You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it’s serving the users' needs
- You have built performant and scalable backends, made pragmatic tradeoffs, and can point to your prior work
- You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way
- When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues
- Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
What the job involves
- Ottimate's mission is to make accounts payable (AP) and payments effortless for businesses. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market, specifically in fintech and payments. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is a big plus but familiarity with other modern technologies is a solid substitute. If you have a strong background in other frameworks, we are open to that. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for
- Discuss, plan, build and test new features
- Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience
- Develop integrations with 3rd party APIs
- Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users
- Manage code reviews through Pull Requests and make sure we're moving fast while maintaining Unit Tests and quality
- Help migrate some of the modules into independent micro-services
- Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers
Our take
Accounts payable is a cumbersome side of financial management for the hospitality and restaurant sectors. High volume of deliveries of variable frequencies and size, along with the substantial chance of damage to perishable items, means that keeping track of short-term credit to various sellers is a tricky business. With belts having been drastically tightened across the hospitality sector in recent years, labor-intensive paper invoicing and back-office administration no longer cuts the mustard.
Ottimate's (previously Plate IQ) solution is to effect digital transformation across B2B payments and accounts payable in the hospitality sector. The company’s VendorPay allows customers to make payments directly to over 200,000 vendors straight from their AP platform, thereby streamlining and resolving the late payments issue that’s been growing steadily in the sector over recent years.
Margins in the sector are famously tight, so even the most modest of operational improvements can make substantial gains for hospitality businesses. Indeed, over 30,000 restaurants, hotels and grocery chains across the US are using Ottimate’s platform, including leading brands such as Best Western, Holiday Inn and Foodtown.
Kirsty
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Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$160m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $164.5m
Company benefits
- Health & Retirement: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage as well as a 401(k)
- Paid Time Off: We offer plenty of vacation and personal time off to give you the time to step away, unwind, and recharge
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Barrett Boston
(CEO)Previously CRO & Executive Officer for TriNet. Before that, they were the President of Americas with TravelClick and Vice President at IBM.
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