Full Stack Engineer (Waterloo)
Summary
Full Stack Engineer building modern payment infrastructure and fraud detection systems. The role involves working with Node.js, PostgreSQL, and mobile technologies (iOS/Android) within a Y Combinator-backed fintech startup.
Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment ‘innovation’ since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. At Kash, we are on a mission to make payments better, faster, and safer. Come chat with us if this sounds like a worthy cause. Show us what what you’re passionate about.
Kash is a Y Combinator company. The Former CEO of Visa is the chair of our board. We have a diverse team of people with complementary skills. Our team includes people from Ropes & Gray, Microsoft, OANDA, Morgan Stanley, Well.ca, Miovision, and YC alum. We have offices in San Francisco and Waterloo.
What we are working on:
- Payment Infrastructure - Node.js, some Python in tools, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, GCE/AWS
- Fraud Detection Algorithm
- Cryptographic Security
- Mobile Payment - Objective-C for iOS, Android
- Phabricator for code reviews and Jenkins for CI
- We’re dedicated to achieving our mission and will use whatever technology that’s best to help us get there
What we are looking for:
- We want people who believe in our mission
- We believe the most important skill is your ability to learn
- Ability to take ownership of things, learn what’s necessary and get things done
- Ability to communicate well, ask clarifying questions, ask for help early and not get stuck
- Understands the payment pain. Want to make finance work better for everyone.
- Shipped quality stuff before
- Experience in utilizing tests to help you speed up development and its quality
- Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management
- Previous startup experience
Why you should join us:
- Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup
- Work on something that will really change the world
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Solve difficult yet interesting problems
- State of the art equipment for your work station. We believe in giving our engineers the best tools to do their job.