Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer

Kick • Fulltime • United States, United States • 3m ago

Overview

Kick is an applied AI company building the first self-driving bookkeeping experience. We’re combining machine and tax code to automate the business finances for 60M entrepreneurs. See the Kick Memo for more details.

Why Kick

Product obsession - Described as an “Apple-like” user experience on the bleeding edge of application-layer AI product development practices.
World-class team - Kick’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups–including a $250M exit with 5M users.
Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion.
Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry.
Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation.

Ideal Candidate

Senior or Staff-level Software Engineer who is passionate about building intuitive, scalable, and performant software and has experience building financial or accounting systems.
Has an enthusiasm to help define what AI can do to automate the back office for millions of online business owners.

You will

Work closely with our Design, Product, AI and Engineering teams to develop and implement complex financial features and systems.
Develop both frontend and backend functionality
Continuously research and evaluate new technologies to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems.

We’re looking for someone who

Has 3-10+ years of software engineering experience
Has past experience leading the development of complex financial or accounting features
Worked on products with great UI & UX and have an opinion on the difference between great & mediocre design
Has a strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns
Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems

Bonus if you

Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer
Has experience with modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, etc)

Tech

TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you’re familiar with different stack don’t hesitate to apply)
Postgres, Redis
AWS, Terraform
OpenAI, Azure AI
TypeORM, React Query
Github, Slack, Linear, Figma