Fullstack Engineer (Mid-Level)

The Opportunity

As a Full Stack Engineer at Spade, you’ll own product experiences end-to-end, working across both the frontend and backend of our enrichment platform. You’ll build customer-facing interfaces in React and TypeScript, as well as the Python/Django APIs, data models, and platform services that power them. This is a high-ownership role on a small team, where your decisions will directly shape the usability, performance, and reliability of products processing billions of transactions.

What will you be doing?

• Collaborate on our technical vision to build a product customers love

• Build and maintain customer-facing product experience across React/TypeScript on the frontend and Python/Django on the backend

• Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable developer facing APIs and a robust data platform supporting our data science team

• Partner with the team to own and improve our engineering best practices and help us scale by keeping our processes effective

• Debug production issues across all levels of the stack

• Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade

What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary? 

Must Have:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems in fast-paced environments

• Strong background with Python, Django, React, and Typescript

• Experience with API development, SQL, and modern front end frameworks and technologies

• Experience building customer-facing systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments

• A product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value

• A collaborative mindset, fostering a culture shared success and continuous improvement

• Based in NYC with ability to work out of our Flatiron office at least 2 days/week

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Aurora RDS Postgres

• Experience with managing cloud infrastructure via tools like AWS CDK

• Experience with transaction, merchant, and location data

• Familiarity with fintech / data products

• Familiarity with writing performant SQL, using indices and analyzing query performance.

Why Join Spade?

• Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.

Benefits at Spade:

• Competitive Compensation. Data-driven salaries that reward performance and ownership.

Salary Range:

• At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.