Senior backend engineer

🔮 Our mission
The financial system is in trouble. It’s just not working for most people. The cost of living is increasing faster than salaries, inflation is eating away on hard earned savings, and it seems like there’s no end to the spiritual cost of the current version of capitalism.

But, there’s always light for those that dare look for it. Dealflows mission is to back the entrepreneurs that do by accelerating the transition to spiritual capitalism with increasingly powerful social financial tools. Read more about this here.

📲 Our product
Dealflow is a next-generation invoicing platform that empowers online SMBS to send and pay invoices, and the only of its kind to offer free global transfers, instant payouts and workflow automation in one place. Check out our website here. ****

📖 Our origin
We care about the creators and those that actually shows up everyday to create the future.

⚡️ In short:
Help us build the most exceptional social financial tools. Remote position in CET +- 2. €5k / month + above market rate warrants. Our team goal is to make sure you get your financial freedom after Dealflow.

🔎 What we're looking for in general

• Spiritual maturity: A truly good person with a strong character, equally strong values and an ability to build trusting relationships in a high-stress environment. This is a must for us as our mission is to accelerate spiritual capitalism with increasingly powerful social financial tools.
• Analytical intelligence: Analytical genius who is highly comfortable with numbers and complex problem solving. You should be a tech-savvy and highly intelligent professional, experienced with automation and an obsession for details. Learning fast is your superpower, you are or have been a “nerd” and you love the entire problem-solution process from problem identification to solution discovery and implementation.
• Hunger: We are exceptionally motivated people with a strong growth mindset and a bravery that allows us to aim for #1 as a team. The only way to thrive in our team is to bring the same or even more hunger to the table. We do not match well with fixed mindsets or average ambition levels.

Work on a disruptive financial product that’s still in its early stages. Be responsible for driving innovation, maintainability, improving performance, scalability, and creating headless systems under strict timelines.

Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed backend architecture and design that creates enabled headless systems and a joyful experience for the customer.

Own the design process, implementation, and verification of framework components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies

Integrate our ledger technology with the following external systems:

• Open banking platforms like Plaid.
• Payment processors like Stripe.
• Accounting systems like Economic and QuickBooks

Lead backend engineering and solve complex problems such as:

• Invoice matching algorithm → how can we match invoices accurately at scale to transactions when we lack information?
• Credit scoring system → how can we gamify the credit scoring experience for our customers while ensuring safe and rigorous lending decisions?
• Fee optimisation algorithm → how can we best optimise our payment orchestration to minimize our transactional fees?
• Analytics system → how can we best set up a system that tracks all relevant numbers everywhere at all times?

-> Bonus points for submitting your application with GitHub links to applications you have developed

• Experience in python (5+ years)
• Experience in AWS ecosystem (5+ years)
• Experience with banking integrations (3+ years)
• Experience with accounting integrations (2+ years). Not required but highly valued.
• Experience with payment gateways and processors like Stripe (2+ years)
• Experience with backend development and different technologies (MQ’s, cache’s, architectural patterns, etc..)
• Experience with writing tests (Unit / Integration / Performance)
• Hands on with performance and optimisation problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Extreme attention to detail, obsession for scalable systems

• Hands-on with CI/CD

• We use GitHub Actions, AWS code deploy

• Working knowledge of cyber security
• Experience with postman

• Salary: Starting at €5000 / month. Includes above market rate in warrants + clear timeline to promotion / cash and equity bonuses.
• Remote-first team: We're based across US, EU and Asia, with plans to bring in team members from all sorts of places.
• Flexible working hours: We use meetings when needed and not per default.
• Get your perfect setup: Mac/Windows/Linux, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. We are flexible and cover whatever you need to do the best work of your life.
• We take care of you: Weekly remote team lunches, high quality tea, covered co-working space. Overall we'll get you whatever you need.
• Make a big difference: Take, own and implement decisions to build Dealflow from scratch. We are not rushing to market but focus on a quality product and the big little details.
• Company health insurance policy: We'll of course take care of that. :)

💭 How will we assess things?

We care about dialogue. In many cases, we might learn more about you from the questions you ask us, than we do from the questions we ask you.

Our steps:

1. Initial interview with Seb (30 - 45 minutes): Let’s talk about what makes you, you. And your accomplishments so far.
2. Second interview with Sid: Run us through your technical abilities. We’re a product first company so this is important.
3. Final interview with Seb (1h)
4. Reference call withs your (former) colleagues. At the same time you'll get to talk to one of our investors and one of our advisors. There you can ask any question.
5. We make an offer