Recruiting from Scratch Looking for Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Startup at Austin, CA Full Time

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

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About Our Client

Most people were never taught about personal finance and in 2020, this cost Americans a collective $415 Billion. This is one of the world’s biggest societal problems, but it’s a solvable one. Our client built hyper-personalized, bite-sized, and engaging financial education so that everyone can learn what they need, right when they need it.

They’re backed by world-class investors like Pear VC.

About The Opportunity

We’re hiring a team of software engineers to work closely with our founder and help solve the financial literacy problem. You will build technology from scratch, scale it in-market, and establish the foundation for future team members.

Our team is based in NYC and we typically split time between the office and remote work.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and own entire sections of the product (React Native w/Expo, Firebase, & Google Cloud Functions).
• Collaborate with technical CEO, engineering team, and designers to prioritize and update our product roadmap.
• Speak with users and iterate on their feedback
• Implement delightful user experiences with inputs from designers
• Ensure that our product continues to serve users well as we incrementally scale up

Your qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with experience taking projects from idea to production
• A computing or related degree, bootcamp or equivalent work experience
• Comfortable with React Native and Javascript/Typescript
• Passion for education, teaching, and learning

Bonus points

• Past experiences with education, whether as a teacher, mentor, or even learner
• Able to learn, experiment, and adopt new programming languages, frameworks, or paradigms quickly
• Cares about product design and user experience
• Experience working effectively in ambiguous environments

Why you should join our client

• They are uniquely poised to make a huge positive impact on the world. Managing your credit and debt, figuring out investments, taking advantage of tax-sheltered accounts, spending within your budget, are just some of the things that people are struggling with. You’ll be solving that at scale by building the trusted, engaging, and highly personalized solution to solve their issues.
• You’ll help build a company, with a phenomenal set of investors, a strong founder, and an incredibly mission. This means that you’ll be able to wear many hats and your work will directly impact our user’s experience.
• You’ll have a high degree of autonomy over your work life, getting to decide everything from tech stack to product prioritization to working hours. We’re don’t plan to micro-manage you; you’ll propose to us how and what things should be done.

Perks

• Health insurance
• Full office gear. Whatever you need for the office, we’ve got it covered (including a macbook)
• Flexible working hours, friday team lunches, happy hours, offsites, and more!

Salary Range: $140,000 – $200,000

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