Senior Backend Software Engineer, Ampla
Cards
Credit for consumer brands
Job no longer available
Credit for consumer brands
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide tech-enabled financial solutions to help consumer brands grow.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development using Python
- Prior experience as a technical leader, such as authoring a technical specification, overseeing an initiative, or mentoring other engineers
- Proven track record of designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
- Experience working in an agile development environment and familiarity with agile methodologies
- A passion for staying updated with the latest technologies and trends in backend development
- Experience with Django is preferred but not required
- Experience with charge card products is preferred but not required
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced senior backend software engineer to join our Cards engineering team
- The cards engineering team is responsible for building debit and charge card related products and services for our customers, such as issuing a new virtual card and earning rewards as you spend
- As a senior member of our cards team, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend solutions that power our cards product
- Our team culture is collaborative and supportive. We work remotely and pair often, follow agile practices, and work closely with product and design. We have many upcoming challenges such as scaling our systems to handle our growing cards customer base, adding features to help card users spend easily online and in the real world, and more
- The Cards product is built with Python & Django on the backend, Typescript & React on the frontend, and running on GCP with Postgres, Redis, and pubsub supporting
- This is a backend focused role, however you’ll have the ability to work across the stack and get involved in areas that interest you
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of cards backend systems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, product managers, and designers, to define and implement innovative solutions
- Take ownership of technical design and architecture decisions, ensuring high-performance, scalability, and maintainability of the cards infrastructure
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while adhering to best practices and coding standards
- Optimize and fine-tune existing backend systems for improved performance and responsiveness
- Conduct thorough testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of backend components to ensure robustness and reliability
- Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers, conducting code reviews and sharing technical expertise
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in backend development
- Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives
Our take
As billions of dollars of commerce has moved online, direct to customer (D2C) brands have proliferated. However, this new generation of retail brands remains constrained by traditional, slow-moving capital.
While some non-dilutive alternative financial options have emerged, like Shopify Capital which helped to popularize merchant cash advances, these capital providers often rely on digital revenue alone. Ampla is the first true line of credit including omnichannel revenue streams.
With the global economic slowdown significantly affecting Ampla's potential customer base, the company has doubled down on offering support to the industry. By acquiring extended payments lender Upside Financing and launching its Ampla Pay Later Product, it hopes to make managing inventory costs far easier. Since inventory ties up roughly 40% of most retailer's capital, this relieves a significant burden on D2C brands and will help secure Ampla's market leading position in otherwise very tough conditions for the sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$16.5m
EARLY VC
Dec 2021
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62.5m
Company benefits
- Take time to relax! We provide unlimited PTO with encouraged yearly minimum time off
- All parents have the option to take up to 12 weeks of paid maternity, paternity or adoption leave to celebrate new family milestones
- We believe in providing all employees with paid health, dental, and vision benefits
- Bring your dog to work
- Join us for our bagel club, midweek munches, and biweekly Ampla hours!
- As a team with a variety of backgrounds across the globe, we stay connected through company trips and on-sites, game nights, regular all-hands meetings, happy hours and more
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jim Cummings
(COO)Associate in Principal Investments at Macquarie Group from 2014 to 2018.
Jie Zhou
(CTO)Started their career as an Associate at Fenwick & West. Moved on to work in tech at Kinneck, which was acquired by Linear Financial.
Anthony Santomo
(CEO)Prior to Ampla, Anthony was an early employee at Attentive. Also worked in Investment Banking at Macquarie Group and Barclays.
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