Unusual Ventures Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Grid (San Francisco)

Who We Are

Grid is a venture-backed technology startup democratizing financial services for hard-working Americans. We're starting by giving back the money you overpay in taxes today, not next year. Use that extra cash to save for a home upgrade, make the holidays a little brighter, or just give yourself a treat. Grid has already helped thousands of people get a little closer to their dreams. And we're just getting started.

We pride ourselves on our company culture that drives innovation quickly. Our team is led by successful FinTech veterans, including the creator of Square Instant Deposits and a co-founder of Square.

Who You Are

We're looking for a developer extraordinaire, a pragmatist who enjoys turning complexity into well structured, scalable and maintainable solutions. The ideal candidate will be confident with a programming language of their choice, be able to learn new technologies quickly, have strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals, and have extensive experience with at least a few of the following technologies (or strong desire to work with them): *nix, open source datastores, Git/Github.

We Practice:

• Open collaboration


• Code reviews


• Testing


• Agile Development

We Use:

• Go


• MySQL


• Google Cloud Provider


• Kubernetes


• Docker


• ReactJS


• C#

We're looking for Engineers to:

• Design, implement, and maintain server side application and infrastructure code


• Assist and build front-end applications


• Pragmatically solve problems


• Contribute to product design and direction


• Effectively communicate and work with other teams

Requirements:

• Expert at developing and debugging software


• Disciplined approach to development, testing, and quality assurance


• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining highly technical problems in English


• Experience with Git and version control


• Experience with databases and caching

Strong candidates may have:

• Actively contributed to open source software


• Worked with a strong, lean-based development environment


• Previous work experience in a start-up environment


• Industry experience and knowledge


• Ability to recognize the right tool for the right situation/problem