Overview

Kick is an applied AI company building the first self-driving bookkeeping experience. We’re combining machine and tax code to automate the business finances for 60M entrepreneurs. See the Kick Memo for more details.

Why Kick

1. Product obsession - Described as an “Apple-like” user experience on the bleeding edge of application-layer AI product development practices.

2. World-class team - Kick’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups–including a $250M exit with 5M users.

3. Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion.

4. Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry.

5. Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation.
   

Ideal Candidate

• Senior or Staff-level Software Engineer who is passionate about building intuitive, scalable, and performant software and has experience building financial or accounting systems.

• Has an enthusiasm to help define what AI can do to automate the back office for millions of online business owners.

You will

• Work closely with our Design, Product, AI and Engineering teams to develop and implement complex financial features and systems.

• Develop both frontend and backend functionality

• Continuously research and evaluate new technologies to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems.

We're looking for someone who

• Has 3-10+ years of software engineering experience

• Has past experience leading the development of complex financial or accounting features

• Worked on products with great UI & UX and have an opinion on the difference between great & mediocre design

• Has a strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns

• Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems

Bonus if you

• Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer

• Has experience with modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, etc)

Tech

• TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you're familiar with different stack don't hesitate to apply)

• Postgres, Redis

• AWS, Terraform

• OpenAI, Azure AI

• TypeORM, React Query

• Github, Slack, Linear, Figma

We offer

• Top of market salary and equity based on experience

• Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment

• 20 days/year of paid vacation; meet ups in Palo Alto