Fullstack Software Engineer, Collective
$170-200k
Offers Equity
Back-office platform for self-employed people
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Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for engineers who are hungry to grow into broader ownership, think in terms of outcomes, and see AI as a core part of how software gets built today
- 3–4 years of experience building and shipping production software in a product-focused environment
- Solid fullstack engineering skills (e.g., Python, Django, React, or similar modern frameworks)
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs and working with messy, real-world data
- Hands-on use of AI developer tools (copilots, code agents) in your day-to-day workflow — not just experiments
- Ability to take a well-scoped problem and drive it to a shipped, instrumented solution with light guidance
- Good product and UX instincts to make sensible scope tradeoffs and ask the right clarifying questions before building
- Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining tradeoffs to non-engineering partners
- Familiarity with SQL and working with data warehouses (BigQuery a plus)
- Interest in the accounting / fintech / payroll domain, or a track record of getting up to speed quickly in a new domain
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Software Engineer to help build and scale the systems that power Collective's accounting product, the connection between our members' bank activity, bookkeeping, and tax outcomes
- You'll work across the stack on the platform that automates reconciliation, ingests transaction data from our banking and accounting partners, and turns raw financial activity into clean, member-ready books
- This is a product engineering role with real ownership, working closely with Product, Design, Operations, and our in-house accounting team to ship fast and iterate based on member and operator feedback
- You'll be expected to use modern AI tools and agent-based workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and unlock new product capabilities
- Build and ship features across the accounting product - from member-facing reconciliation and bookkeeping experiences to internal tooling that powers our accounting and bookkeeping operators
- Work on the integration layer between Collective and our partners that includes extending APIs, handling edge cases, and improving data reliability
- Improve the transaction pipeline that flows from bank feeds through our accounting platform into our data layer, including reliability, observability, and drift detection between source and destination
- Own well-scoped features end-to-end with support from senior engineers to define the approach, build, deploy, instrument, and iterate
- Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to translate accounting workflows into clean software, and surface engineering tradeoffs early
- Use AI-powered development tools (copilots, code agents, agent workflows) day-to-day to move faster and cut manual overhead
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical partners
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI agents and automation into development workflows and product features
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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