**Overview**
Stake is looking for an engineer to join our team. This position will demand
critical thinking skills, the ability to quickly understand complex technical
systems, and the ability to work in a team of 3-6 engineers in a fast-paced
environment. The ability to make smart, educated, and fast prioritization
decisions is essential to the success of this position. If you have all that
and a passion for learning fast and creating better renting experiences, then
we want to talk to you!
Is your experience close, but not a perfect fit to what we outline in this job
description? Please consider applying! We each gain experience differently,
many skills are transferable, and a motivated, enthusiastic person can bridge
many gaps. We believe that diverse teams are best for problem-solving and
creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding differing viewpoints
to the team and encourage everyone to apply!
**The Company**
Stake is building banking for renters. We make renting more financially
rewarding by giving Cash Back to renters and other members of the Stake
Network.
Residents love Cash Back rewards from Stake. Renters sign and renew leases and
then earn cash when they pay their rent. Renters can sign up for Stake Debit
on our native mobile apps on iOS and Android, then connect their direct
deposit, add funds, refer their friends, and more. All the while, earning Cash
Back on every purchase.
Stake reduces economic vacancy for our partner rental communities where we
reward renters with Cash Back every month. We call it Return on Rent, and it
is changing how rental communities build happier, more financially successful
residents across the country.
Stake's communities love a more efficient rental incentive, and how Stake’s
data helps them reduce economic vacancy. Stake's Loyalty Cloud is the only
real-time revenue management solution for concessions, incentives, rental
discounts, and more.
Stake is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,
disability, or protected veteran status.
**The Team**
Our Product and Engineering team builds and maintains complex digital
solutions for real estate organizations and their residents. The solutions
that you work on will solve business challenges that cross socioeconomic lines
and geographies, with the end goal of creating a more rewarding rental
experience for everyone. We hire engineers with full stack skillsets who want
to work on creating novel solutions that scale worldwide while ensuring
reliability and security.
**Responsibilities**
* Execute on the engineering team’s projects, priorities, and mission. Model the Stake’s Engineering organizational priorities. Own key metrics and objectives to get there.
* Lead by example as you develop and execute on the Engineering organization’s vision, technical strategy and roadmap. Write lots of code!
* Scope, estimate, build, and maintain new backend endpoints, data pipelines, automated tests, monitoring and logging tools, and more.
* Drive the design, delivery, deployment, and maintenance of the software systems supporting Stake’s mobile app, web dashboard, and underlying platform, including CI/CD pipelines.
* Identify gaps in our existing codebase, system architecture, development processes, and products. Lead the charge to fix them, and help other engineers do the same.
* Teach other individual engineers how to be better than they were yesterday. Review their code to ensure it is secure, efficient, and maintainable.
**Qualifications**
5+ years of previous engineering experience building and maintaining backend
infrastructure (Flask services deployed on Heroku) and the data pipelines they
depend on (pandas, SQL, Postgres, Google BigQuery)
You prefer to work in a hyper-growth startup environment
**You’ll stand out if**
* You have previous engineering experience in the fintech and real estate industries.
* You’re comfortable being the solo individual contributor leading the way to build and maintain complex enterprise data workflows and API’s
**Interview Process**
1.) 30 minute initial Zoom interview with the hiring manager and other members
of the Stake Engineering team
2.) 1 hour in depth technical interview with the hiring manager and Stake’s
Head of Engineering
3.) Hands on technical coding assessment.
4.) Phone call to answer any final questions you may have, as the candidate,
if necessary.
5.) Offer!
**Benefits**
* Base Salary: $130,000 - $150,000
* Equity: You will participate in our Employee Stock Option Plan, and be a part of a growing, dynamic startup that is changing the real estate industry and financial landscape for renters. You will benefit with our team based on that growth.
* Laptop and technology: You will receive a new laptop and budget for home internet and setting up a home office.
* Full benefits: health, dental, vision, etc., PTO, and 401k match.
**Location**
We are a remote-first company, so you are free to work wherever you like. We
have offices in Seattle and New York and we offer relocation assistance if you
would like to relocate. Preference will be given to Seattle area candidates
since a good portion of our engineering team is located there.
Stake focuses on Mobile, Real Estate, Rental Housing, and Finance Technology.
Their company has offices in New York City and Seattle. They have a small team
that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Stake has raised $12M of funding;
their latest round was closed on June 2022 at a valuation of $55M.
You can view their website at <http://stake.rent> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/getyourstake),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/getyourstake/), and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getyourstake/).
