Casca
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 239 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsPostgreSQLLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- We're replacing decades-old legacy systems with AI-native technology that automates 90% of the manual work humans once had to do.
- You will be responsible for maintaining high throughput and ensuring features reach production without unnecessary delays. - Amplify the Team: Amplify your skills and vision by supporting the growth of the team.
- You will use data to ruthlessly prioritize work that moves the needle.
Responsibilities
- Balance Coding & Leadership: Maintain a projected division of roughly 70% contributing high-quality code and 30% driving technical alignment. You will be expected to ship individually while unblocking the wider team.
- Drive Execution: Lead the development of complex initiatives by chunking and sequencing work to maximize parallelization. You will be responsible for maintaining high throughput and ensuring features reach production without unnecessary delays.
- Elevate Standards: Lead initiatives to fine-tune controls and communication channels to improve predictability and system reliability. You will use data to ruthlessly prioritize work that moves the needle.
- Maintain a projected division of roughly 70% contributing high-quality code and 30% driving technical alignment.
- Lead the development of complex initiatives by chunking and sequencing work to maximize parallelization.
- Leverage strong pattern recognition to build SaaS applications that effectively balance complexity, quality, and speed of delivery.
- We value engineers who instinctively design for security, reliability and compliance without slowing down execution.
- As an early-stage company building at the frontier of AI, we work with high intensity and commitment.
Requirements
- Drive architectural decisions that support long-term stability while maintaining the pace required by a fast-growing banking platform.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering significant projects in fast-paced, production SaaS environments.
- You have a holistic understanding of web architectures and are comfortable navigating a broad system.
- Seasoned Engineering Expertise: 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering significant projects in fast-paced, production SaaS environments.
- You can quickly identify the trade-offs between "doing it right" and "doing it now," and you know when to pull which lever.
- Lead Strategy with Urgency: Drive architectural decisions that support long-term stability while maintaining the pace required by a fast-growing banking platform.
Skills
- TypeScript, React, NextJS, Postgres with Prisma, Python, AWS.
- Access to resources and mentorship to expand your skill set, influence strategy, and accelerate your career.
Compensation
- Includes salary, benefits, and potential equity in a fast-growing startup.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Includes salary, benefits, and potential equity in a fast-growing startup.
- Culture of Innovation: We encourage risk-taking, learning from failures, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in fintech.
- Security & Compliance Awareness: Experience in regulated industries (like Fintech or Healthcare) is a nice-to-have.
Company info
- Amplify your skills and vision by supporting the growth of the team.
- You will mentor team members both directly and by example, helping others reach their true potential and driving engineering best practices.
- We encourage risk-taking, learning from failures, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in fintech.
- While schedules can vary by role/team, many weeks will demand extra focus, flexibility and time particularly during major launches and high impact sprints.
- We're seeking those who are aligned to and able to commit to that expectation.
- Optimize for Value: Leverage strong pattern recognition to build SaaS applications that effectively balance complexity, quality, and speed of delivery. You will build for our customers, avoiding complexity for complexity's sake.
- You will build for our customers, avoiding complexity for complexity's sake.
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