Senior Software Engineer, Found
Data Infrastructure
$181-241k
+ Equity
Business banking for the self-employed
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Business banking for the self-employed
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$181-241k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify finances for the self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in data infrastructure, data engineering, or analytics engineering roles
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL), dbt, and Airflow
- Advocated for and rolled out new technologies or open-source frameworks that empower data and product organizations to make data driven decisions
- Experience working with cloud-native big data infrastructure on the public cloud (We use BigQuery and Vertex on GCP)
- Ability to design effective data models for data warehouse storage for use in analytics and training machine learning models
- Experience with steering the maintenance of a data warehouse with contributors from multiple teams. We use DBT and Data hub for metadata, with Airflow for scheduling
- An eye for the future, setting us up for success both now and in the long term
- Strong ability to prioritize autonomously, knowing when to invest and when to say no
Desirable
- Previous experience working in the fintech space
- Previous startup experience
- Experience with bookkeeping or taxes and how it relates to self-employment
- Experience with feature stores powering ML models (we use Chalk)
What the job involves
- Our Data team is a full stack data organization of highly skilled data scientists, data engineers, and machine learning engineers
- We’re responsible for everything from researching, training, and deploying ML models to detect and stop fraud in real time, to using data to inform the direction that our product teams should take and what to build next
- We’re a small but experienced team that has worked on diverse and complex problems at companies like Uber, Block (f.k.a Square), and Spotify
- We’re excited to bring on a Data Engineer to help scale our data infrastructure, optimize our data pipelines, establish data governance, and support decision-making across the organization
- You’ll play a critical role in building out and scaling our ML and data platforms and will empower data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to better leverage our data to drive our business forward
- Design, build, and operate large scale data infrastructure systems across multiple environments to store, aggregate, and progress large amounts of data
- Build a data platform-as-a-service for internal customers, ensuring data integrity, sanity, tagging, and discoverability
- Bridge the gap between engineering and analytics, helping inform the roadmap for data infrastructure for the company
- Implement various ETL infrastructures for the company’s topline metrics, reporting, and product functionality
- Establish standards and practices ensuring that the data warehouse is maintained to a high standard
Our take
Traditionally, freelancers have been burdened with the need to juggle multiple tools and solutions to handle their bookkeeping, invoices, and tax responsibilities. In response to this challenge, Found was established with a mission to simplify financial management for the self-employed, providing them with precious time, cost savings, and peace of mind.
Established by two former Square executives with experience in payroll and SaaS solutions, Found functions as a financial hub for freelancers. It enables users to seamlessly manage their finances by offering services such as income deposits, the issuance of dedicated company debit cards, and tax calculations. Additionally, Found equips freelancers with real-time business insights and streamlines the process of making quarterly tax payments.
As the gig economy continues to thrive, the number of self-employed individuals has seen remarkable growth in recent years. In light of this trend, Found is dedicated to capitalizing on the opportunity by expanding its marketing efforts and enhancing its product offerings. Through these strategic moves, Found aims to further support its ever-growing customer base.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$60m
SERIES B
May 2021
$12.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.3m
Company benefits
- 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation
- Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave
- Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits are always 100% covered for employees, 75% covered for dependents
- Work anywhere: We have Found offices in both SF and Seattle and for team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working
- Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees
- Flexible vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need, whenever you need to with our flexible time-off policy
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lauren Myrick
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Economics at UC Santa Barbara, and joined Deloitte as an Associate. Worked in Finance at EmSense Corporation, and was General Manager of Payroll at Square.
Connor Dunn
(CIO & Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and worked as a Software Engineer at Trigger Corp. Was an Engineering Lead at Square.
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