Founding backend engineer

Mission

The financial system is in trouble. It’s not really working for most people. It seems like it is designed to be inherently pro-profit and con-human, at all costs.

But, there's always light for those that dare look for it. Dealflow’s mission is to back the entrepreneurs that do.

We’re here to empower business owners with financial expertise so much that we can accelerate the transition to spiritual capitalism.

Dealflow is a next-generation invoicing platform that empowers online SMBs to send and pay invoices.

Our vision is to use this foundation to build the world’s most accurate financial AI agent for SMBs, and empower them with real financial expertise.

In short: Help us empower business owners with financial expertise and transform capitalism. Remote position in CET +- 2. €5k / month + serious 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.

Tasks

1. Translate technical requirements into detailed backend designs that creates tier 1 scalable systems and a joyful experience for the customer.
2. Be responsible for driving innovation, maintainability, improving performance, scalability, and creating headless systems under strict timelines.
3. Lead backend engineering and solve complex problems such as:

• Ensuring optimal schema design, 100% uptime and high-end security.
• Credit scoring system → what's the best way to gamify the credit scoring experience for our customers while ensuring a high ROI on lending bets?
• Invoice matching algorithm → what's the optimal way to match invoices to deposits accurately at scale when we lack information?
• Payment orchestration → how can we best optimise our payment orchestration to lower our costs and increase our margins?
• Analytics system → how can we set up an analytics system that tracks all relevant numbers?

• Integrate our technology with the following external systems:

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

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

Requirements

1. Experience in python (4+ years)
2. Experience in AWS ecosystem (4+ years)
3. Experience with banking integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
4. Experience with accounting integrations (1+ years). Not required but valued.
5. Experience with payment gateways and processors like Stripe (1+ years)
6. Experience with backend development and different technologies (MQ's, cache's, architectural patterns, etc..)
7. Experience with writing tests (Unit / Integration / Performance)
8. Hands on with performance and optimisation problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
9. Extreme attention to detail, obsession for scalable systems
10. Hands-on with CI/CD
11. We use GitHub Actions, AWS code deploy
12. Working knowledge of cyber security
13. Experience with postman

Benefits

• Salary: Starting at €5000 / month. Includes serious warrants 1 - 7%, depending on the match. 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.
• 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. We are not rushing to market but focus on a quality product and the big little details.

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 technical your accomplishments so far.
2. Technical challenge. We want to see how you approach a difficult problem.
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