Full Stack Engineer (Waterloo)
Apply NowCompany: Kash
Location: Waterloo, ON N2J 1A1
Description:
Our Mission
Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment 'innovation' since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. At Kash, we are on a mission to make payments better, faster, and safer. Come chat with us if this sounds like a worthy cause. Show us what what you're passionate about.
Kash is a Y Combinator company. The Former CEO of Visa is the chair of our board. We have a diverse team of people with complementary skills. Our team includes people from Ropes & Gray, Microsoft, OANDA, Morgan Stanley, Well.ca, Miovision, and YC alum. We have offices in San Francisco and Waterloo.
What we are working on:
Payment Infrastructure - Node.js, some Python in tools, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, GCE/AWS
Fraud Detection Algorithm
Credit Risk Assessment
Cryptographic Security
Web Payment UX - Angular.js, React
Mobile Payment - Objective-C for iOS, Android
Phabricator for code reviews and Jenkins for CI
We're dedicated to achieving our mission and will use whatever technology that's best to help us get there
What we are looking for:
We want people who believe in our mission
We believe the most important skill is your ability to learn
Ability to take ownership of things, learn what's necessary and get things done
Ability to communicate well, ask clarifying questions, ask for help early and not get stuck
Bonus points:
Understands the payment pain. Want to make finance work better for everyone.
Shipped quality stuff before
Experience in utilizing tests to help you speed up development and its quality
Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management
Previous startup experience
Why you should join us:
Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup
Work on something that will really change the world
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Flat org chart
Solve difficult yet interesting problems
State of the art equipment for your work station. We believe in giving our engineers the best tools to do their job.
Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment 'innovation' since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. At Kash, we are on a mission to make payments better, faster, and safer. Come chat with us if this sounds like a worthy cause. Show us what what you're passionate about.
Kash is a Y Combinator company. The Former CEO of Visa is the chair of our board. We have a diverse team of people with complementary skills. Our team includes people from Ropes & Gray, Microsoft, OANDA, Morgan Stanley, Well.ca, Miovision, and YC alum. We have offices in San Francisco and Waterloo.
What we are working on:
Payment Infrastructure - Node.js, some Python in tools, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, GCE/AWS
Fraud Detection Algorithm
Credit Risk Assessment
Cryptographic Security
Web Payment UX - Angular.js, React
Mobile Payment - Objective-C for iOS, Android
Phabricator for code reviews and Jenkins for CI
We're dedicated to achieving our mission and will use whatever technology that's best to help us get there
What we are looking for:
We want people who believe in our mission
We believe the most important skill is your ability to learn
Ability to take ownership of things, learn what's necessary and get things done
Ability to communicate well, ask clarifying questions, ask for help early and not get stuck
Bonus points:
Understands the payment pain. Want to make finance work better for everyone.
Shipped quality stuff before
Experience in utilizing tests to help you speed up development and its quality
Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management
Previous startup experience
Why you should join us:
Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup
Work on something that will really change the world
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Flat org chart
Solve difficult yet interesting problems
State of the art equipment for your work station. We believe in giving our engineers the best tools to do their job.