Staff Backend Engineer

Pipe

Pipe is the modern capital platform built to connect entrepreneurs and business owners to fast, frictionless, dilution-free financing. Pipe turns all forms of revenue into up-front working capital to help companies improve cash flow, scale operations, and grow on their terms.

The Role

This is a full-time, fully-remote position as a Staff Backend Engineer. While we're very much still a startup in the sense that you may be asked to help with a variety of problems, in this role you can expect to spend most of your time working on the code and systems that power Pipe.

• You'll work closely with the Product, Data Science, and Finance teams and write code needed to power financial products for our customers.
• As a Staff engineer, we expect you to make the team better by writing code, but also by doing architecture work, mentoring other engineers, and generally improving the status quo.
• Beyond specific product/application-related tasks, you will design and improve new tooling and systems as needed to support our application's needs.
• You will keep up to date on technology trends. Understand the impact of technology choices in the company.
• You will contribute significantly to our team culture.

Tech Stack

We are committed to using the right tools for the problems we are trying to solve. We are not dogmatic, but currently our stack is mostly comprised of:

• Frontend: Typescript, React, Next.js.
• Backend: Go, PostgreSQL, Pyspark, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Buildkite, Google Cloud Platform.

You do not need to have prior experience with ALL of these technologies. We believe great candidates are capable of learning new tools and we provide mentorship and guidance as needed.

We try to adopt tools that are a delight to use, and that help us be productive. We have a strong focus on always maintaining and improving developer productivity. We experiment frequently, but pragmatically, with new technology.

Qualifications

We are looking for talented engineers with experience in a similar role. Specifically related to Backend Engineering:

• You have 10+ years of experience writing high quality code, architecting complex & scalable systems, and leading engineering teams.
• You are an expert with web backends, databases, ETL pipelines and developer tools.
• You have built, deployed, and maintained highly complex systems in the real world.

In general, to be an engineer at Pipe:

• You want to join a quickly growing startup and make an impact.
• You want to be part of an engineering team that holds each other to high standards.
• You want to make things better for yourself and others.
• You have a good sense of engineering fundamentals, and are passionate about building high quality software.
• You take end-to-end ownership of your work and are comfortable making code changes across the stack when needed.
• You can collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders to unblock yourself and make sure you're building the right thing.
• You put users first and empathize with how they'll use Pipe. Your work reflects this.
• You're interested in finance and helping companies unlock new, more sustainable sources of capital.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You want to work in an environment that recognizes excellence.

Pipe is an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate. Inclusion is important to us and we hope it is to you, too.

Compensation and Benefits

• We want you to feel like an owner and that should be reflected in your salary and equity.
• The best equipment: if you want it, and it helps you do your job, we'll provide it. Computers, monitors, desks, chairs, headphones, speakers, microphones, webcams, keyboards, mice, etc.
• A good work-life balance: we do our best work when we regularly can step away from it and live our lives.
• Flexible vacation and work hours. We don't adopt conventional work practices that are meaningless for the type of work we do.
• Parental leave for anyone who is growing their family, regardless of gender.
• Very good health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Great colleagues: we value a culture of authenticity, humility, and excellence. We want you to make a footprint on our culture.