Senior Backend Engineer, Spade
$180-210k
+ Equity
Financial data enrichment API
Open for applications
Financial data enrichment API
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling backend Python-based systems in fast-paced environments
- Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas: infrastructure, data pipelines, and API development
- Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
- Product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value
- Collaborative working style, fostering a culture of mentorship, shared success, and continuous improvement
- Nice-to-have:
- Proficiency in Django and SQL
- Familiarity with data science and analytics tools such as Pyspark, Databricks and Delta Lake, and Looker
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools like AWS CDK
- Experience with transaction, merchant, and/or location data
- Experience and/or interest in fintech and/or data products
- As part of our commitment to health and safety, Spade requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as permitted under applicable law
What the job involves
- Collaborate on our technical vision to build a product customers love
- Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable developer facing APIs and a robust data platform supporting our data science team
- Continuously improve our engineering best practices by designing and implementing systems that allow us to expand the code base, drive productivity, and scale the team
- Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
- Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade
Our take
Founded in 2021, Spade is a universal transaction enrichment API built for fintech companies. Often there is a vast amount of data that cannot be tracked or is not provided within transactions. Sometimes the name used isn't the company name, the geo data is different to where you paid etc. This is where Spade wants to build a new generation in fintech infrastructure.
The company has developed an API that enhances all the data details around financial activity, fraud detection, merchant matching, and category organisation. These are all super appealing features for Spade customers to get to know their users’ spending habits better and keep internet banking secure.
Spade is an early stage company but attracted considerable Series A funding when just two years old, demonstrating the need for this product in the market. Spade plans to use its funding to expand its team and develop its merchant intelligence products.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $22.3m
Company benefits
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial seed – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer
- Competitive equity package
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Early exercise program
- Extended post-termination exercise period
- 401K for retirement planning
- Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home stipend
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Oban MacTavish
(CEO)Previously co-founded Hubly. More recently worked as an Investment Analyst at Cove Street Capital (CSC).
Cooper Hart
(CTO)Co-founded Spade in October 2021.
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