Software Engineer, Middesk
$148-230k
+ Offers Equity
2 days a week in office
Business credit check and verification services
Open for applications
Business credit check and verification services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$148-230k
+ Offers Equity
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the economy by scaling trust between businesses.
Role
Who you are
- While we agree the interesting problems in Engineering are stack-agnostic, we’d love it if you had experience with a couple of the languages in our stack (see the first point above). We’ve found that Engineers with prior stack experience usually ramp faster
- You’ve worked for a high-growth, venture-backed startup before and are looking for a similar role. Or, you've founded a company and are looking to get back into it
- You’ve been working as a professional Software Engineer for at least three or more years
- You understand SaaS business fundamentals (e.g. annual contract value, customer acquisition cost, and annual-recurring revenue) and can demonstrate how the work you’ve done influences these metrics
What the job involves
- Engineers have the freedom to create a lot of impact for our customers
- The role requires high agency and comfort with change. It requires people who believe the interesting problems in Engineering are stack-agnostic
- It requires Engineers who believe that solving customer problems quickly is what matters first; building scalable systems matters when customer problems are scaling problems
- Work in React, Redux, Ruby, Rails, Postgres, and potentially Scala, Python, and Go to solve problems for our customers
- Dive into all layers of the stack; frontend, backend, API, data processors, etc
- Jam with Product Managers, Designers, Ops, and other Engineers every day to shape the direction of our products
- Share your knowledge with others in Engineering; people should get better at their craft because they work with you. Even if you’re early in your career, you have something to teach
- Contribute to the psychological safety of your team. Software is built by groups of people, and good relationships matter
- Help us interview and hire other Engineers
Our take
Middesk helps businesses screen, verify, and run risk and compliance checks on customers and other businesses. The founders developed the business after experiencing first-hand the often laborious process of manual identity verification, a process which has proven a pain point for many businesses historically.
This hands-on experience helped land Middesk seeding from heavyweight investors Sequoia and Accel. The company's focus is on businesses with stringent regulatory risk requirements, with a special focus on businesses involved in financial aspects like credit and payroll. Middesk’s focus on this sector opens them up to a growing, lucrative market as more businesses than ever are demanding services comparable to retail banking, credit unions and community banks.
Testament to the value of their offering is Middesk’s recent partnership with challenger bank tech platform Agora Services. The challenger bank sector is taking off fast too, and if Middesk can establish a strong reputation for servicing this burgeoning industry, they stand to win big.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$57m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $77.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We take care of you premiums for medical, dental, and vision
- Unlimited PTO: We have an unlimited PTO policy and encourage you actually to use it
- Ownership: We offer a stake in the company to every full-time employee through stock options
- 401(k): We make it easy to save money for retirement
- Parental leave: We offer three months of paid parental leave to any parent
- Hybrid work: We have offices in San Francisco and New York and also offer the ability to work remotely
- Catered lunches: We offer catered lunches on days that you're in the San Francisco or New York office
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kyle Mack
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at AnyPerk as an Account Executive and Sales Team Lead, and at Checkr as a Sales Lead, Director of Strategic Sales, and Director of Solutions. They have served as a Scout at Sequoia Capital since 2020.
Kurt Ruppel
(Co-Founder)They studied Cognitive Science at Berkeley before working as a Software Engineer at multiple companies, including Zendesk.
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