Job Details
About 1st10
1st10 is a boutique recruiting firm that works with founders and investors to build early engineering teams. Our team helped build early Robinhood, Airbnb, Stripe and many more.
The Company:
- Product: Autonomous banking platform
- Significant product traction with paying customers!
- Currently, three people in the company.
- Based in SF and NYC (can work remotely from SF or NYC)
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain reliable backend systems, integrating them with credit card, banking, and merchant platforms for comprehensive workflow chargeback management.
- Scale and generalize the system for growth, ensuring it is highly configurable and flexible to reduce the time to go live and support a broad range of use cases.
- Architect and develop robust architectural patterns for microservices.
- Design and implement core frameworks and libraries for various backend services, promoting code reuse and maintainability.
- Take ownership of upgrading coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployed systems, backend programming languages, and third-party dependencies to enhance system performance and security.
- Proactively identify areas for improvement in our platform's infrastructure and systems, implementing optimizations that enhance operational efficiency and product quality.
- Own the end-to-end development and deployment of key features, including decision-making around technology stack and system design to ensure optimal implementation.
Who you are
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years focused on using Go or Java in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience working on platform teams and contributing significantly to system architecture.
- Led an end-to-end implementation of a key product feature or re-architecture/upgrading of a key platform service.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong understanding of fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and industry design patterns.
- Experience mentoring junior team members and leading project teams as the sole tech lead.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.