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Recruiting from Scratch :

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About this client:

Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Location:

San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal

Company Stage:

Series C

Office Type:

Hybrid (Mon–Thu in office)

Salary:

$225,000 – $300,000 USD

Equity:

$600K – $1M in equity (subject to level and experience) Company Description

Our client is a Series C fintech startup transforming the backbone of the transportation and logistics industry. By building a modern payments infrastructure platform, they are empowering businesses with tools such as digital fuel cards, payroll, and invoice factoring. With over $200M in funding and a growing customer base, they are reimagining how capital moves through supply chains. This is an opportunity to join a lean, high-impact engineering team solving deeply practical and technically complex problems in real-world logistics. You’ll play a mission-critical role in building systems that power billions in payments volume annually—while working alongside experienced operators and passionate builders. What You Will Do

▸ Scope, lead, and execute large-scale technical projects from early-stage MVPs to robust, scalable products

▸ Build and maintain user-facing features, internal tools, backend services, and APIs

▸ Make product and engineering trade-offs that balance performance, UX, and business priorities

▸ Own major technical initiatives end-to-end—design, implementation, testing, and deployment

▸ Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and operations to build high-quality experiences

▸ Help scale the architecture to support real-time risk systems and billions in transaction volume

▸ Mentor peers and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive team culture Ideal Candidate Background

▸ 6–15 years of experience building B2B or B2C SaaS products

▸ Played a key role in early engineering teams (e.g. first 30–50 engineers) at startups that scaled

▸ Strong proficiency in

React, Ruby, and Postgres

▸ Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions and architectural design

▸ Experience shipping products 0 → 1 and scaling them to 10x+

▸ CS degree from a top university (or equivalent technical foundation)

▸ Clear, steady career progression with good tenures in previous roles Preferred

▸ Prior experience at high-product-bar companies (e.g. Plaid, Ramp, Square, Chime, Brex, Coinbase, etc.)

▸ Experience in payments, fintech, or logistics-related platforms

▸ Comfortable working directly with customers and using feedback to shape feature development

▸ Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to align stakeholders on technical paths

▸ Passion for elegant code, fast iteration cycles, and learning new technologies Compensation, Benefits & Perks

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Base Salary:

$225K – $300K (flexible for the right candidate)

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Equity:

$600K – $1M

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Work Setup:

Hybrid (Mon–Thu onsite) in major cities across the U.S. and Canada

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Visa Sponsorship:

Available (H1B transfers, TN supported)

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Team Culture:

High-trust, transparent, and mission-driven environment

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Impact:

Shape the infrastructure powering the economy’s largest movement engine—transportation This is a rare chance to join a fast-growing fintech team at a pivotal moment. If you're a seasoned engineer who thrives on ownership, scale, and real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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