Staff Backend Engineer

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Job description

About Ratio

Ratio is reinventing the way that subscription businesses leverage capital to fuel growth, hiring and expansion by creating a new class of tech-enabled financing services. We are building the SoFi for subscription businesses which will disrupt venture financing and create a new trillion dollar asset class.

Ratio is currently financing SaaS companies out of a $500 Million facility and is venture-backed by top tier VCs who were early investors in companies like DoorDash, AppLovin, Bolt and Forge Global.

Ratio is founded by two experienced entrepreneurs, Ashish Srimal and Mason Blake, who have both founded and exited their past companies. Their backgrounds bring a wealth of knowledge and experience after having spent more than 20 years in Silicon Valley.

We are an early stage startup in stealth mode looking for founding team members to make a massive impact and contribute significantly to the foundations of our company.

About the Role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will work very closely with the CTO to architect and mastermind the numerous systems that will power our business. From the very beginning, you'll be making an impact with forward-thinking systems design, making sure that scalability, security, and precision are at the heart of our decision making process.

You will play a key role in building the underlying infrastructure, evaluating and choosing the appropriate technologies, selecting frameworks and implementing them. We'll be facing countless decisions as we build out the foundations for everything from the database systems, containers, auto-scaling, CI/CD, feature flags and much more.

This is a unique chance to grow your skill set with a ground zero greenfield environment. Come join us in this highly impactful role!

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with the founders to solve problems and move quickly.
• Research, collaborate, and evaluate different technologies and systems for use in our tech stack.
• Design repeatable and scalable infrastructure code to stand up servers and hardware in AWS.
• Document design decisions and the rationale behind your choices.
• Contribute significantly to the developer culture code - working with the CTO to design processes for our developer principles
• Build and ship high-quality solutions for various systems and features.
• Adhere to high-quality delivery principles while delivering solutions on time

Qualifications

• Strong background in Java or other object-oriented programming languages
• Polyglot - you have learned many languages and the idea of learning a new one does not intimidate you
• Familiarity and experience with modern API technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, protocol buffers
• Experience with different databases: distributed DBs like Hadoop and Spark, relational DBs like PostgreSQL and mySQL, and NoSQL DBs such as MongoDB or Couchbase.
• Proven track record of delivering results
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of industry experience as software engineer
• An ability to work on fast paced, data-driven projects
• Passion for working in a dynamic and collaborative environment