Staff Backend Engineer @ DualEntry

Overview: Staff Backend Engineer building SaaS product
Bring AI to the outdated accounting industry
Work with serial founders (sold previous company: $380m raised, $100m ARR, 280+ team)
Well-funded by the world’s top VC firms and unicorn founders, specialized in AI SaaS
Base salary range $135,000 to $155,000 USD + significant equity package (~$60k+) + bonus
Poland - Remote | New York City - HQ
Accounting is the universal language of business and commerce , in every country, state, and city across the world. It is incredibly fascinating, highly logical and challengingly complex.
Yet, accountants have been largely neglected by the tech industry. Most of today’s accounting software was built on ancient codebases over 20 years ago and moves as slow as an oil tanker.
This lack of tools has accountants overwhelmed and led to a bad reputation - don’t you dread speaking with your ‘bean-counting’ colleagues from the Finance team?
But with AI, we can now build a 10x better product that automates 75%+ of the accountant’s tasks , allowing them to focus on driving business insights rather than playing catch-up with last month’s financials.
Accounting will undergo a radical transformation over the next 10 years, and we are driving this change
Our Founders: Our Founders started their previous company after meeting while coding in Computer Science class. With just $2,000 in savings, the two bootstrapped their first company to $25 million in ARR - and profitably - in just 5 years. They then raised $325 million of venture funding, rapidly scaling the business to 250+ people, >$100 million in ARR and an exit. With DualEntry, they have now decided to tackle their biggest pain point from their first 8-year journey of entrepreneurship: outdated accounting systems. Our Founders have been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and multiple podcasts incl. the Tim Ferris Show with over 2+ million downloads to their episode.
About DualEntry: We’re a well-funded, pre-launch ‘stealth mode’ company modernizing accounting with AI:
We believe AI will disrupt accounting over the next 10 years. 77%+ of today's accounting workflows are already fully automatable (McKinsey & Co). AI has the power to automate particularly manual and pattern-based tasks - it’s perfect for accounting.
We believe the opportunity is now. Existing accounting softwares are ill-positioned for AI with their ancient architectures and have some of the lowest satisfaction scores in all of FinTech, i.e: they're still stuck in the 1990's
We believe the opportunity is huge. Every company needs back-office accounting services; SAP is the 7th largest tech company in the world; plus, there’s an extreme shortage of accounting talent with ~75% of CPAs retiring over the next 10 years (Wall Street Journal).
We believe ‘boring’ industries are actually the most interesting. Traditionally ‘boring’ industries such as accounting are often times underrated, largely neglected, much more challenging than people think and present some of the greatest opportunities to solve problems where others don’t want to look.
How You Operate: Pragmatic : you like to move forward and make decisions based in reality (not theory). We don't debate if Cassandra has the most theoretical scalability -- we use Postgres until it breaks
Hard working: 'You can work long, hard, or smart, but [here] you can't choose two out of three" - Jeff Bezos. We wrote this job post during the weekend
High speed: we deploy to production at least once a day and constantly strive to move faster. We take full ownership for our work and commit all-in
Curious : you love to learn, are highly curious about new frameworks and solutions to engineering problems
As of September 2024, we have only one Staff Backend Engineer seats left on our team. If you’re thinking about how to spend your time in a most useful way and you’re excited about applying AI to reshape the accounting industry, then we want to hear from you

What You Bring: 10+ yrs of total backend software development experience incl. testing
Experience managing long-term software development complexity in a business-logic heavy project
Experience launching products from start to finish (incl. building CI/CD)
Experience with building and testing APIs
Experience with database management systems, SQL, ORMs, and data migrations
Experience integrating with various 3rd-party, preventing negative outcomes and managing unexpected risks
Experience deploying AWS (or similar) cloud services
Willingness to work hard and ship product at high velocity, especially on Fridays
Experience in one more more programming languages (we are agnostic to your language experience)
Overview: Staff Backend Engineer building SaaS product
Bring AI to the outdated accounting industry
Work with serial founders (sold previous company: $380m raised, $100m ARR, 280+ team)
Well-funded by the world’s top VC firms and unicorn founders, specialized in AI SaaS
Base salary range $135,000 to $155,000 USD + significant equity package (~$60k+) + bonus
Poland - Remote | New York City - HQ
Accounting is the universal language of business and commerce , in every country, state, and city across the world. It is incredibly fascinating, highly logical and challengingly complex.
Yet, accountants have been largely neglected by the tech industry. Most of today’s accounting software was built on ancient codebases over 20 years ago and moves as slow as an oil tanker.
This lack of tools has accountants overwhelmed and led to a bad reputation - don’t you dread speaking with your ‘bean-counting’ colleagues from the Finance team?
But with AI, we can now build a 10x better product that automates 75%+ of the accountant’s tasks , allowing them to focus on driving business insights rather than playing catch-up with last month’s financials.
Accounting will undergo a radical transformation over the next 10 years, and we are driving this change
Our Founders: Our Founders started their previous company after meeting while coding in Computer Science class. With just $2,000 in savings, the two bootstrapped their first company to $25 million in ARR - and profitably - in just 5 years. They then raised $325 million of venture funding, rapidly scaling the business to 250+ people, >$100 million in ARR and an exit. With DualEntry, they have now decided to tackle their biggest pain point from their first 8-year journey of entrepreneurship: outdated accounting systems. Our Founders have been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and multiple podcasts incl. the Tim Ferris Show with over 2+ million downloads to their episode.
About DualEntry: We’re a well-funded, pre-launch ‘stealth mode’ company modernizing accounting with AI:
We believe AI will disrupt accounting over the next 10 years. 77%+ of today's accounting workflows are already fully automatable (McKinsey & Co). AI has the power to automate particularly manual and pattern-based tasks - it’s perfect for accounting.
We believe the opportunity is now. Existing accounting softwares are ill-positioned for AI with their ancient architectures and have some of the lowest satisfaction scores in all of FinTech, i.e: they're still stuck in the 1990's
We believe the opportunity is huge. Every company needs back-office accounting services; SAP is the 7th largest tech company in the world; plus, there’s an extreme shortage of accounting talent with ~75% of CPAs retiring over the next 10 years (Wall Street Journal).
We believe ‘boring’ industries are actually the most interesting. Traditionally ‘boring’ industries such as accounting are often times underrated, largely neglected, much more challenging than people think and present some of the greatest opportunities to solve problems where others don’t want to look.
How You Operate: Pragmatic : you like to move forward and make decisions based in reality (not theory). We don't debate if Cassandra has the most theoretical scalability -- we use Postgres until it breaks
Hard working: 'You can work long, hard, or smart, but [here] you can't choose two out of three" - Jeff Bezos. We wrote this job post during the weekend
High speed: we deploy to production at least once a day and constantly strive to move faster. We take full ownership for our work and commit all-in
Curious : you love to learn, are highly curious about new frameworks and solutions to engineering problems
As of September 2024, we have only one Staff Backend Engineer seats left on our team. If you’re thinking about how to spend your time in a most useful way and you’re excited about applying AI to reshape the accounting industry, then we want to hear from you
,[] Requirements: AI, Spring Boot, NoSQL, Microservices, Agnostic, Python Tools: Linear, Notion, GitHub, GIT, Github, Agile. Additionally: Home office, Sport subscription, Small teams, International projects.