Senior Backend Engineer, Spade

$180-210k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

Django

Looker

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

Financial data enrichment API

Job no longer available

Financial data enrichment API

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceAPIData Integration

Job no longer available

$180-210k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

Django

Looker

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceAPIData Integration

Company mission

To empower customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data.

Job

Company

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. So 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 attracted considerable Series A funding when it was just two years old, demonstrating the need for this product in the market. With this funding, the company has worked on expanding its team and developed its merchant intelligence product and now boasts clients like Stripe, Bilt, Corpay, Mercury, and Unit.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Mar 2026

$40m

SERIES B

Dec 2023

$10m

SERIES A

Total funding: $62.4m

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

Oban MacTavish

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously co-founded Hubly. More recently worked as an Investment Analyst at Cove Street Capital (CSC).

Cooper Hart

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Co-founded Spade in October 2021.

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