Gauss Money

Backend Engineer

1w ago
3000 –5500 USD / monthUSAJuniorRemoteB2
Gauss Money

Backend Engineer

1w ago
3000 –5500 USD / monthUSAJuniorRemoteB2haskellawspostgresqldockerpersistentesqueletoservant

Gauss Money is a fintech company focused on refinancing credit card debt. They seek a Backend Engineer with basic Haskell knowledge to develop core fintech features and tackle growth bottlenecks, offering remote flexible work and applied Haskell experience.

About the company

  • Gauss turns debt into savings by refinancing expensive credit card debt.
  • We're backed by Y Combinator and other leading global investors.
  • We are on a mission to make credit cheaper for those who need it most and help people leverage credit to become better off financially.
  • Our guiding principle is maximum impact, minimum disturbance — giving our customers the easiest way to create savings out of debts without much disruption to their financial lives.
  • We're a fully remote squad.
  • We praise autonomy, self-motivation and self-management.
  • We expect everyone to truly care about what they do, take pride in how they do it and strive for self and team improvement.
  • We believe we're working on some really cool things that will make a dent for society as a whole and hope everyone who joins will find it fascinating to connect the dots between their work and the impact it has.
  • If you love technology and helping people - we'd love to talk.

Responsibilities

  • Develop core fintech features to help refinance credit card debt.
  • Resolve critical growth bottlenecks.
  • Write code in Haskell.
  • Work with PostgreSQL database and AWS infrastructure.
  • Participate in a tight team building the core functions of the product.

Requirements

  • Understanding of how distributed web systems work.
  • Basic Haskell knowledge (courses and pet-projects are enough, can learn during interview process).
  • Good English reading and writing skills.
  • No formal degree required.

Conditions

  • Stable compensation $3,000 – $5,500.
  • Flexible hours.
  • Remote setup.
  • Autonomy and influence.
  • Apply Haskell experience in a large-scale setting.
  • Work closely with the founding team in an open, fast-moving, and fun environment.
  • Experience launching products in a competitive market.
  • Steep learning curve across a wide range of hard and soft skills and responsibilities.
  • Contribute to products with a big social mission and world-class customer experiences.

About the product

  • Gauss Money changes how Americans use $1 trillion of credit card debt by refinancing it to create savings.
  • Product involves a monolithic modular web-backend using Persistent/Esqueleto and Servant DSLs.
  • Infrastructure hosted on Docker and AWS, fully automated.

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