Full Stack Engineer (Waterloo)

Our Mission

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

● Credit Risk Assessment

● Cryptographic Security

● Web Payment UX - Angular.js, React

● 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

Bonus points:

● 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

● Flat org chart

● 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.