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
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Product obsession - Described as an “Apple-like” user experience on the bleeding edge of application-layer AI product development practices.
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World-class team - Kick’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups–including a $250M exit with 5M users.
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Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion.
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Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry.
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Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation.
Ideal Candidate
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Senior or Staff-level Software Engineer who is passionate about building intuitive, scalable, and performant software and has experience building financial or accounting systems.
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Has an enthusiasm to help define what AI can do to automate the back office for millions of online business owners.
You will
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Work closely with our Design, Product, AI and Engineering teams to develop and implement complex financial features and systems.
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Develop both frontend and backend functionality
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Continuously research and evaluate new technologies to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems.
We're looking for someone who
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Has 3-10+ years of software engineering experience
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Has past experience leading the development of complex financial or accounting features
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Worked on products with great UI & UX and have an opinion on the difference between great & mediocre design
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Has a strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns
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Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems
Bonus if you
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Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer
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Has experience with modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, etc)
Tech
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TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you're familiar with different stack don't hesitate to apply)
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Postgres, Redis
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AWS, Terraform
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OpenAI, Azure AI
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TypeORM, React Query
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Github, Slack, Linear, Figma
We offer
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Top of market salary and equity based on experience
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Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment
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20 days/year of paid vacation; meet ups in Palo Alto
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