### **About Basis**
Basis is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a
team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate Basis as part of their team,
delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.
We closed a multi-fold oversubscribed seed round backed by top VCs last summer
and are already in use at several leading, large accounting firms in the US.
📍 **Location** : NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.
### **Your role**
**Build**
* Engineer software systems around sophisticated ML models
**Take ownership**
* Work directly with the co-founders
* Oversee significant parts of our tech and product
**Set culture and practice**
* Shape our early engineering culture and processes
* Evolve our approach on backend infrastructure, web server design, core abstractions, etc.
**Wear multiple hats**
* Help hire and build out the rest of the early engineering team - there will be no shortage of responsibility
* Balance long-term thinking and smart abstractions with shipping fast and iteratively
### **Are you the one?**
**Essentials**
* **Experience:** 5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years and evidence of exceptional ability
* **First principles reasoner:** Ability to break complex concepts down to their fundamental elements and then build from there
* **Autonomy:** Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
* **Flexibility:** Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
* **Team-first mentality:** you are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored
* **Passion for vision** : Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
* **Curious about latest AI:** Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.
* **Experience with financial workflows** : Worked with corporate financial data/products geared to finance professionals
* **NYC-based:** Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week
* **All-in:** This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
* **A little something extra:** You know it when you see it
**Bonus points**
* **Hiring** : A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent
* **Data science** : Hands-on experience with data science projects
* **Machine learning:** Experience training models or building ML-ops systems
* **Fintech APIs:** Experience with foundational fintech APIs e.g., Quickbooks, Plaid, etc.
* **Accounting** : Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
* **Product ownership** : Experience owning a product end-to-end
