Spade
Overview
Spade is an engineering-driven company. Our success is predicated on delivering a high quality, reliable, and scalable product to our rapidly growing customer base. We’re building an API that enriches messy financial data and enables customers to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, and power rewards programs. We’re a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team that values empathy, curiosity, and ownership. We care about diversity of opinion, background, and experience, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy over their work. What will you be doing?
Spade is an engineering-driven company. Our success is predicated on delivering a high quality, reliable, and scalable product to our rapidly growing customer base. We’re looking for a product-focused engineering leader who is passionate about building a team, scaling a product, and solving challenging fintech problems. In this role, you will report directly to our CEO and sit on the leadership team, representing engineering in strategic product and company decisions. You will: Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team with a focus on infrastructure, data pipelines, API design, and product delivery Define and drive the engineering vision, architecture, and technical roadmap to deliver on company goals Work closely with the CEO to deliver customer-centric products and drive new strategic initiatives Foster an engineering culture of ownership, velocity, and high performance, empowering individuals to do their best work Implement scalable engineering practices to improve shipping reliability and support business growth Build systems and practices to scale the engineering team, identifying and onboarding high-performing talent in partnership with recruiting Partner with the Head of Data & ML to foster collaboration across data and engineering Experience, skills, and qualifications
Must-have: 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership 5+ years of experience working on B2B, API products Passion for people management, recruiting, and developing technical talent Experience successfully scaling an engineering team with proven results High-ownership, high-velocity mindset Experience with Python, SQL, API design, data pipelines/orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems Experience in high-growth environments (startups preferred) Nice-to-have: Experience in fintech, data, and/or AI products Strong preference for NYC but open to remote for exceptional candidates Why join Spade?
Be a cultural founder.
As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor.
We're a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside. Build the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Our products will power the next wave of fintech innovation, helping customers deliver better, more transparent products and services. Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity package Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees Life & short-term disability insurance Flexible PTO 401K for retirement planning Remote-friendly team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC Paid parental leave Work from home stipend Diversity & Inclusion
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives helps us build the best products for our customers and ourselves. As part of our commitment to health and safety, Spade requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as permitted under applicable law. Job details
Seniority level: Executive Employment type: Full-time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
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Spade is an engineering-driven company. Our success is predicated on delivering a high quality, reliable, and scalable product to our rapidly growing customer base. We’re building an API that enriches messy financial data and enables customers to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, and power rewards programs. We’re a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team that values empathy, curiosity, and ownership. We care about diversity of opinion, background, and experience, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy over their work. What will you be doing?
Spade is an engineering-driven company. Our success is predicated on delivering a high quality, reliable, and scalable product to our rapidly growing customer base. We’re looking for a product-focused engineering leader who is passionate about building a team, scaling a product, and solving challenging fintech problems. In this role, you will report directly to our CEO and sit on the leadership team, representing engineering in strategic product and company decisions. You will: Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team with a focus on infrastructure, data pipelines, API design, and product delivery Define and drive the engineering vision, architecture, and technical roadmap to deliver on company goals Work closely with the CEO to deliver customer-centric products and drive new strategic initiatives Foster an engineering culture of ownership, velocity, and high performance, empowering individuals to do their best work Implement scalable engineering practices to improve shipping reliability and support business growth Build systems and practices to scale the engineering team, identifying and onboarding high-performing talent in partnership with recruiting Partner with the Head of Data & ML to foster collaboration across data and engineering Experience, skills, and qualifications
Must-have: 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership 5+ years of experience working on B2B, API products Passion for people management, recruiting, and developing technical talent Experience successfully scaling an engineering team with proven results High-ownership, high-velocity mindset Experience with Python, SQL, API design, data pipelines/orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems Experience in high-growth environments (startups preferred) Nice-to-have: Experience in fintech, data, and/or AI products Strong preference for NYC but open to remote for exceptional candidates Why join Spade?
Be a cultural founder.
As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor.
We're a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside. Build the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Our products will power the next wave of fintech innovation, helping customers deliver better, more transparent products and services. Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity package Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees Life & short-term disability insurance Flexible PTO 401K for retirement planning Remote-friendly team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC Paid parental leave Work from home stipend Diversity & Inclusion
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives helps us build the best products for our customers and ourselves. As part of our commitment to health and safety, Spade requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as permitted under applicable law. Job details
Seniority level: Executive Employment type: Full-time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
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