Software Engineer

Job Summary

We are building the next-generation cloud spend management platform. If you're early in your engineering career and want to work on real systems, ship production code, and grow quickly in a fast-moving startup environment, North is the place to be.

About the Role

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll create new features, maintain and evolve existing ones, and help shape the architectures that support our product as it scales.

Responsibilities

• Build product features that help manage half a billion dollars of annual spend and save customers millions of dollars per month
• Design, build, and maintain Python micro-services that power core product functionality
• Handle data efficiently at runtime, making thoughtful decisions about performance, memory, and latency
• Create well-structured service layers, libraries, and abstractions that other teams can reuse across the organization
• Propose architectures and solutions for new features, not just implement specs
• Think about the future needs of a feature — design today in a way that doesn't paint us into a corner tomorrow
• Write strong tests and set up the right guardrails so development moves fast without breaking things
• Maintain and improve existing systems, refactoring where needed as product requirements evolve
• Collaborate closely with your product, platform, and AI/ML team. Jump across the stack and across product areas as priorities shift, especially in the first year.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems
• Strong Python experience, with a solid grasp of libraries, service layers, object handling, and writing clean, idiomatic code
• Strong fundamentals around code versioning (Git workflows, branching strategies, code review) and collaborative development
• Experience designing and operating micro-services in production
• Able to write code that scales and can be reused across the organization — you think about interfaces and abstractions, not just one-off implementations
• Solid understanding of how to model and handle data efficiently at runtime, including memory, throughput, and latency tradeoffs
• Strong critical thinking skills — you reason from first principles, weigh tradeoffs honestly, and can defend your design decisions
• Pragmatic use of LLM code gen tools: you use them to move faster, but you still understand the code, the principles behind it, and the tradeoffs being made
• Self-awareness and a growth mindset: you learn from your mistakes, take feedback well, and get better with every project
• Able to propose architectures and solutions, not just execute on tickets, you can think a feature through end to end
• Strong testing discipline, a belief that good tests make teams faster, not slower
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment
• Strong communication skills

Qualifications

• Outstanding recognition in competitions, awards, or business ventures
• Experience in a startup or fast-moving environment
• Familiarity with FinOps concepts or financial data
• Experience owning a product or product line end to end
• Built systems that scaled rapidly with user growth

Skills

• Python
• Microservices
• Data modeling
• Testing
• Collaboration

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (birthing parents receive an additional 4 weeks at 50% pay)
• Two company-wide breaks per year: one around Labor Day and one at the end of the year
• Aetna Medical PPO plan with the majority of the premium covered by North
• Dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account (FSA) for health expenses and commuter benefits
• 30 day sabbatical every 4 years

Pay Range

$150,000 - $200,000 USD per year (Brooklyn HQ)

Location

Engineering
Brooklyn, NY