Staff Engineer

at  Snappt

TL;DR
Snappt is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who brings not only a background and experience in backend API development, integrating AWS services(ECS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, etc.), and database development (PostgreSQL, etc.); but also, a decent amount of exposure, experience, and expertise utilizing and integrating ML frameworks, libraries and packages into applications and system solutions. Those who are willing & interested in participating with their team in the full value delivery chain. This team member will partner with our value-focused product engineering and operations team.

WHO WE ARE

We are a Series A, well-funded tech startup that is kicking ass and taking names. In just two short years, we have captured nearly 10% market share… because our fraud detection technology is saving our customers millions, soon to be billions of dollars.
We are a founder-led organization, passionate about building a company with awesome people and a relentless focus on the customer. And as cliche as it may sound, we walk the walk and stand behind our Core Values and how we treat one another.
We are a team of 80, soon to be 100+. If you’re like us and think you have what it takes to join us, keep reading!

WHAT WE DO

We stop the bad guys. Since 2020, we have saved our customers over $150MM in potential losses.
The Snappt platform leverages our proprietary algorithm to effectively and efficiently identify tampered or altered documents used for income or financial verification. For example, this empowers property managers and owners to avoid costly evictions (and the associated bad debt.)

Expected Behaviors & Responsibilities (includes but is not limited to):

• Focus on helping their team achieve outcomes through strong participation in:
• Focus: Shared understanding of mission and intent.
• Durability: Refine and maintain a durable/visible backlog of valuable work items for the team to build, operate, and enhance accepted products and solutions.
• Autonomy: Defensible decision-making partnerships and practices.
• Flexibility: Shared understanding of responsibilities required to accept the team’s mission and deliver full value.
• Flow: Shared understanding of WIP limitations for concurrent activity.
• Understand and align with ideas, responsibilities, and tasks that add value to the team and the organization as a whole.
• Help to formulate and customize processes that help expose value, increase effectiveness, and reduce waste.
• Translate advanced technology designs into small work units needed to implement cross-stack and cross-domain solutions.
• Understand and help develop advanced technology systems that provide cross-stack and cross-domain solutions to existing requirements and problems.
• Consistently demonstrate a sense of responsibility for the outcome of team deliveries.
• Establish trust through the creation and honoring of personal and shared commitments and responsibilities.
• Lead and Help others to both accept responsibilities and find opportunities to learn new capabilities
• See others’ problems as opportunities to help. The team is confident they can extend their trust for most if not all, team scope level areas.
• Display courage, to tell the truth: Seek out opportunities to give team members honest feedback. Form habits to ask for more specific feedback. Listens to feedback and then challenges themselves with improvement.