Founding Engineer (Fullstack)

About the role

This is a full-time 100% in-person role as a Founding Engineer at Mercoa, located in San Francisco, CA. As a founding engineer, you’ll have a significant stake and responsibility in shaping our future. We’re seeking someone who not only brings an ownership mentality to their craft but also has the ambition to start their own company in 2-3 years.

Responsibilities

• Build from 0 to 1. Brainstorm, design, code and launch. Some product ideas on the map: Offering BNPL and pay-by-card on any invoice, React components that can be easily white labeled and customized, sample projects and videos that make it easy to get started with Mercoa, etc.
• Sales and Customer Success: We firmly believe that the best engineers engage directly with customers to solve problems. If you don't enjoy talking to customers on a regular basis, this role isn't for you. You will work closely with customers from initial sales calls through implementation and go-live.
• Improving existing systems and tooling. As former bootstrappers, we plan to be lean and build resilient systems and automation to scale. Building great internal tools and processes as well as optimizing infrastructure is key to this vision.
• On-Call Rotation: All software has bugs, but good software is fixed quickly. We take pride in keeping production stable and fixing bugs as soon as we find them.
• You learn fast and embrace ambiguity - tackling difficult problems in new domains should be fun!

Requirements

• Experienced with cloud platforms, REST APIs, Node.js, React, and SQL databases
• You have a strong work ethic and are ready to grind
• Have built and shipped a working project or product, ideally something complex
• You love talking to customers and solving their issues

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Promoted to senior-level or higher
• You've worked on dev-tools or APIs and are involved in developer communities
• You have a background in Accounting or Finance, or have worked at a Fintech before
• You’ve previously founded a company
• You’ve launched products or projects to that are used by strangers and have active and happy users