Job Description
What is Spade?
Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade’s API takes these raw, messy transactions, and in <50 ms, returns clean, structured records linked to verified businesses in our proprietary database. Building on that foundation, our agent layer leverages this enriched data to automate insights and decision-making. Customers including Stripe, FIS, Bilt, Corpay, and Mercury use Spade to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, power rewards programs, and more. We lead the market in merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, enriching hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume every month.
Spade is a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.
What will you do?
You’ll join a lean, high-ownership team building real-time transaction enrichment for some of fintech’s most innovative companies, and have a meaningful impact on both the product and engineering culture from day one. You will:
- Collaborate on our technical vision to build a product customers love
- Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable developer facing APIs and a robust customer facing application for managing their Spade data and configurations
- Continuously improve our engineering best practices by designing and implementing systems that allow us to expand the code base, drive productivity, and scale the team
- Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
- Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade
What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?
This position is remote friendly (with an option to come to an office if in the NYC area), but only open to applicants based in the United States and Canada.
- Must-have:
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling Python/Django Backends and React + Typescript Frontends in fast-paced environments
- Proven expertise in API development, SQL, and modern front end frameworks and technologies
- Experience building customer-facing applications from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
- A product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value
- A collaborative mindset, fostering a culture of mentorship, shared success, and continuous improvement
- Nice-to-have:
- Experience with high-scale, low latency systems
- Experience designing and building dynamic data visualizations
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools like Terraform, AWS CDK
- Experience with transaction, merchant, and/or location data
- Experience and/or interest in fintech and/or data products
- Familiarity data science and analytics tools such as Pyspark, Databricks and Delta Lake, and Hex
Why join Spade?
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. The future of finance will be built on better data, and Spade powers that. You’ll have the opportunity to drive impact at scale, helping industry leaders build more innovative products and services for consumers.
Benefits include:
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K for retirement planning
- Remote-friendly team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home stipend
Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.
Salary Range:
- At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.
- We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.
- The anticipated cash salary range for this role for candidates based in the United States is between $180,000 and $220,000 USD (based on level), with an equity grant.
