Staff Engineer, Ottimate
Payments and Expense Management
$150-175k
+ Annual bonus
AP automation AI software
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AP automation AI software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-175k
+ Annual bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make life a little easier for anyone eager to spend less time on AP and more time growing their business.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes
- Deep expertise in Python and the Django web framework
- Experience debugging complex database performance issues
- You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it's serving the users' needs
- You have an extensive background in developing and scaling B2B SaaS solutions
- You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way
- When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues
- Have communication skills necessary to have calls with customers. For example to discuss new features, provide initial onboarding support, provide training and assess initiative’s success
- Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus
- Product Sense. Ability to prioritize the customer experience and build the correct infrastructure to support it
Desirable
- Experience building payments or finance stack
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Backend or Full Stack Engineer to join our growing engineering team
- As a senior individual contributor, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling our backend systems with a primary focus on Python and Django
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance backend services that power our Payments and Expense Management platforms
- Architect and develop robust, scalable backend systems using Python and Django
- Lead technical design discussions and own backend service architecture decisions
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience
- Drive best practices for backend development, including testing and code reviews
- Evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and frameworks to improve engineering efficiency
- Troubleshoot and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term planning with engineering leadership
- Support the Product team in their quest to define and research potential new avenues for revenue
Our take
Accounts payable is a cumbersome side of financial management for the hospitality and restaurant sectors. High volume of deliveries of variable frequencies and size, along with the substantial chance of damage to perishable items, means that keeping track of short-term credit to various sellers is a tricky business. With belts having been drastically tightened across the hospitality sector in recent years, labor-intensive paper invoicing and back-office administration no longer cuts the mustard.
Ottimate's (previously Plate IQ) solution is to effect digital transformation across B2B payments and accounts payable in the hospitality sector. The company’s VendorPay allows customers to make payments directly to over 200,000 vendors straight from their AP platform, thereby streamlining and resolving the late payments issue that’s been growing steadily in the sector over recent years.
Margins in the sector are famously tight, so even the most modest of operational improvements can make substantial gains for hospitality businesses. Indeed, over 30,000 restaurants, hotels and grocery chains across the US are using Ottimate’s platform, including leading brands such as Best Western, Holiday Inn and Foodtown.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$160m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $164.5m
Company benefits
- Health & Retirement: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage as well as a 401(k)
- Paid Time Off: We offer plenty of vacation and personal time off to give you the time to step away, unwind, and recharge
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Barrett Boston
(CEO)Previously CRO & Executive Officer for TriNet. Before that, they were the President of Americas with TravelClick and Vice President at IBM.
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