At Jumpstart, we’re on an (ambitious) mission to enable international founders to easily start and manage an U.S. business. We’re based in Minneapolis and backed by Craft Ventures, Foundation Capital, and Y Combinator (S20 batch).
Our goal is to make the experience of starting a company as seamless as paying for running water. By streamlining the process of starting a company, getting a tax ID number, and bank account we aim to play a role in helping millions of people build their dream business.
Joining our engineering team, you’ll dive right into our Javascript/Typescript stack and have a say in making foundational infrastructure and architecture decisions. You should have a strong background in building human-centered products from the ground up. You’ll have the opportunity to marry operations with data to create the most personalized predictive experience for our thousands of customers in 130+ countries.
Want to learn more about our company? Check us out here: https://www.notion.so/jumpstartinc/Jumpstart-Hiring-5116bedb601343a2a6364ffc4527089f
Your responsibilities
· Leading the effort in building out a seamless, beautiful customer experience with React, TypeScript, and Redux that feels comfortable and effortless for our customers.
· Helping to scale our backend beyond handling the the huge number of requests we get daily.
· Helping to shape our devops/infra with Bazel, Terraform, and beyond to streamline our CI/CD pipeline from commit to deploy.
· Shaping our practice as one of our early hires, bringing your technical experience and knowledge of best practices to establish a strong engineering culture.
· Work with a team of 6 engineers to help unblock and resolve issues
You might be a great fit if you...
· Have taken a customer-facing product from conception to execution, and are excited about doing so again at Jumpstart
· Are enthusiastic about learning and diving deeply into new, unfamiliar technologies
· Care about writing clean, well-documented code and appreciate static typing
· Are curious about tackling challenging, gnarly technical problems around data, predictive modeling, discrete optimization, and operations
· Enjoy working with a small team in a fast-paced environment
You should have:
· Strong working knowledge of computer science fundamentals, equivalent to a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D in Computer Science.
· Strong front-end skills (we have a huge emphasis on design and exceptional customer experience)
· Comfort with writing substantial new code and modifying existing, mature code.
· Experience building distributed systems.
· Experience writing high-performance systems is a plus.
· Track record of learning new technologies and concepts quickly.
· Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively, as needed.
· Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
Bonuses:
· Experience in Next.js
Working at Jumpstart
· Flexible working hours
· 21 days of vacation
· Top of market salary
· Autonomy in your work
Skills
Javascript, Typescript, PostgresSQL, AWS