Software Engineer | Seattle at Grid in Seattle, WA

Summary: Grid is a company focused on leveling the financial playing field by building innovative financial products. They are seeking a Software Engineer to help develop and scale their tax product, working closely with operations and engineering teams to improve system reliability and user experience. Responsibilities: - Backend Development: You'll be building product features end to end - domain models, business logic and API integrations that make our product just work for customers - Deployment & Iteration: We practice a dynamic, data-driven approach to product development. As an product engineer at Grid, you'll build towards bold milestones in well-engineered, incremental releases - Data Analysis: As a data-driven product, we have robust data pipelines and analytics infrastructure. To be successful at Grid, you'll utilize SQL and other analysis tools to evaluate product and system performance regularly - Debugging Evented Systems: Grid's backend makes heavy use of pubsub. Testing and debugging complex state machines, in order to create a seamless experience for all users is key - Shipping to Production: You'll have access to a rapid CI/CD process that enables you to ship to production on the daily. As an engineer, you'll own your implementations end to end and respond to production incidents as needed Required Qualifications: - Significant experience (1+ years) writing consumer-grade backend software, ideally in Go (golang) deployed on GCP - You seek high growth opportunities and are constantly learning about the world around you - End-to-end understanding of product engineering in a complex environment, such as financial services, health, insurance, etc - Experience prioritizing customers and user experience: We're looking for people who make complicated things simple - Proven experience in evented systems, data acquisition (screen scraping, crawling), data normalization and API integration - Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, showcasing a proactive approach to identifying key leverage points for data products - People who are constantly asking why the world around them work the way it does, and who have the will to change it - Confidence to prioritize work and delivery demonstrable results on a tight cadence - Demonstrated experience or understanding of web scrapers, data acquisition and normalization Preferred Qualifications: - Familiarity with the tax code or financial modeling is nice to have but not required Required Skills: Go (golang), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Backend Software Development, API Integration, SQL, Data Analysis, Evented Systems, Data Acquisition, Data Normalization, Financial Services Domain Knowledge, Web Scraping, Data Modeling, Autonomy, Curiosity, Optimism, Self Starter Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Life Insurance