Full Stack Engineer (Waterloo)

Kash; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

State-of-the-art equipment

Job summary

Kash is building faster, safer payments with a world-class engineering team. We are growing, with offices in Waterloo and San Francisco, and we value people who learn quickly, take ownership, and ship quality software.

You will work on core payment infrastructure, fraud detection, and security, using Node.js, Python, and modern cloud tools. We welcome candidates with startup experience who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and communicate clearly, asking for help when needed.

Qualifications

• Belief in our mission and willingness to learn.

Skills

Learning ability

Ownership

Communication

Payments domain knowledge

Startup experience

Quality shipped

Tools

Node.js

Python

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Phabricator

Objective-C

iOS

Android

Job description

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
• Cryptographic Security
• 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
• 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
• 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.