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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