Software Engineer in San Francisco, California at Slash

Slash is the premier banking platform for small businesses. Our all in one virtual card, bill pay, accounting, and invoicing platform helps entrepreneurs stay on top of their finances, allowing them to spend more time doing what they love. Slash powers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in purchases.

Our investors include Y Combinator, Stanford University, NEA, and the founders of Tinder and Plaid.

Slash is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team. We are looking for full stack engineers who are excited to be part of our early story. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling in production.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building the logic and systems that power our core financial product, guard against bad actors, and categorize customers into high and low risk — all at scale under demanding latency constraints.
• Setting code-standards, shaping our engineering culture, contributing to our roadmap, and talking to customers to figure out how we can solve their problems with software.
• Designing and building scalable backend systems that can handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second with Typescript.
• Building our production monitoring, logging, metrics, and analytics stack.
• Writing libraries and frameworks to speed up internal development and complicated workflows.
• Helping us put together an amazing team of talented and mission-driven engineers.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is looking to take full ownership of their work and make an immediate impact
• Thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment
• Loves writing code and values deep technical knowledge as much as delivering great product experiences.
• Has experience shipping high-quality software products
• Interest in working with our tech stack (React, Typescript, NodeJS, Redis, CockroachDB)
• Knowledge of functional programming, Javascript, and Typescript’s type-systems is appreciated, but not required
• Experience working with an IaC such as Terraform to ship code on AWS is interesting, but not required
• Experience scaling distributed systems to handle high levels of burst traffic

Bonus points for

• Familiarity with any part of our tech stack (React, Typescript, NodeJS, Redis, CockroachDB)
• Extensive knowledge of functional programming, Javascript, and Typescript’s type-system
• Experience working with an IaC such as Terraform to ship code on AWS
• Experience scaling distributed systems to handle high levels of burst traffic

What's in it for You:

• Opportunity for high growth
• High autonomy + ownership culture
• Competitive pay + equity package
• Unlimited PTO, Health, Vision, and Dental coverage
• Free lunch and dinner daily at the office
• Latest 16 inch Macbook Pro