Backend Software Engineer

About Upflow

Upflow provides cutting edge cash collection technology to help B2B companies get paid faster and simpler.

We are a product-led SaaS startup, launched in 2018 and trusted by hundreds of companies across the US and EMEA, including Lattice, ProductBoard, Instawork and more. We're also backed by leading investors (YCombinator, eFounders, Hedosophia) and top business angels from N26, Square, Mercury, Uber, and Netsuite.

This is an amazing opportunity to work and learn in a fast-growing Fintech and an international environment. The position is preferably on site in Paris, but hybrid and 100% remote can be considered.

What you will do

As part of our Financial Integrations team, you will tackle the challenge of real-time synchronization for millions of invoices and financial transactions, ensuring accuracy and reliability across our platform.

In your day-to-day at Upflow, you will:

• Improve our synchronization engine, working closely with PMs and engineers to add new features and improve its reliability and performance.
• Integrate third-party financial services like ERPs, billing tools, and payment gateways, both pulling and pushing financial data.
• Ship code to production daily, leveraging our robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Be part of a small and efficient team, striving for productivity: automated testing, clean and simple architecture, observability....
• Rotate as a technical champion, triaging and resolving issues detected by our monitoring tools or reported by clients.
• Own projects end-to-end, from specification to release, driving both functional and technical decisions.

Our current stack

• 100% Typescript
• Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Graphql, React
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform and hosted on GCP
• Datadog + Sentry for monitoring
• Full continuous-delivery on CircleCI, with 10 deploys per day on average & 1000s of non-regression tests run on each build
• Notion for documentation

You

You are a talented software engineer that thrives in a positive environment. If you have some of the following traits, Upflow could be an excellent fit for you:

• 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering
• Proficient in Typescript development
• Pragmatic approach to engineering that strikes a balance between seamless experiences, beautiful code, maintainability, and time to market
• Appreciation for a test-driven, code-review culture.
• Naturally collaborative and focused on facts & pragmatic solutions to problems
• Comfortable in a startup environment: high-impact, autonomy & ownership, versatile & self-driven

Why join Upflow?

💰Top-market compensation + company’s equity.

🚀 Best-in-class product in a massive market.

💨 Fast-moving environment - you will never stop learning and growing.

🤝 Trusting environment - hands-off management style with a strong culture of ownership and autonomy.

🌎 International environment - work with team members across Europe and the US.

🏢 Flexible remote culture with offices in Le Marais, Paris and Midtown, New York City

🤼 Team activities such as lunch, drinks and offsite organized regularly.

Recruitment Process

1 - Screening call with Pauline, Software Engineer and your N+1

It’s a discussion with your future manager. We’ll get deeper into your expertise and know-how. We’ll also give you a clearer view of what your day-to-day in that role is like. It’s a good opportunity to see if you foresee yourself working at Upflow.

2 - Home assignment

Your time to shine! You’ll be given a home assignment. Yes, it is designed to assess your skills. But it’s also designed to give you a better taste of what being part of Upflow is like. Again, hiring is a two-way street! Ultimately: we believe assignments are a great way to control our biases. We care for what you do; not your schooling, social background, or the gender you identify yourself to.

3 - Home assignment review

Your hiring manager will spend up to 90 minutes debriefing your case with you. A peer can take part in this review. Hiring managers at Upflow are looking for team players: taking and giving feedback is key to thriving with us!

4 - Meet the team!

You’ll also meet up with at least two other peers so you can foresee yourself as part of this team. 😃

5 - Founder interview

Meet with Alex (co-founder & CEO). He will tell you everything about Upflow’s vision and values. It’s a privileged moment to ask questions, too.

At Upflow, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage all individuals to apply, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Research shows that some candidates may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. However, we believe that a variety of experiences and perspectives can bring value beyond the listed qualifications. If you’re excited about what we do and feel you could contribute, we want to hear from you