Senior Software Engineer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Join a startup that's in the sweet spot between having a product launched and paying customers, but still early enough for you to have significant impact and stake. We're building a new kind of marketplace for social media content creators and advertisers and brands. It's a $10B industry, ripe for disruption through data and technology.


At Matchmade, we're building a new kind of marketplace that connects social media creators with advertisers and brands. It's a $10B industry, growing rapidly and ripe for disruption with data and automation. While we're building tools for marketers and creators, by heart we're a tech company on a mission to make influencer marketing fair and transparent for everyone.

If we are successful, marketers don't waste their money on annoying spam, and people producing good content on social media get to make their living out of that.

Behind our marketplace lies an impressive amount of data, analysis and automation. We index and analyze over 2 billion Youtube videos and build automated workflows on top of that. Our tech stack consist of TypeScript, Python, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. We enjoy architecting our platform around small and well-defined microservices, but only when it makes sense.

We are in the ideal stage when to join a startup. On one hand, we have the product up and running, paying customers and top-notch investors, so our focus is on growth and scale as opposed to just surviving. On the other hand, it's still early days for us. We're a small team of 25 people (6 devs), so people joining now will have significant impact (and stake) on the future of the company.

 

As a software engineer at Matchmade, you will

  • Design and implement features and improvements throughout our platform together with the team. What these are varies, but it could be for example new microservices to automate different workflows, data processing pipelines to index social media content, or ironing out delightful UIs. Just to name a few.

  • Actively participate in product discovery and work with the rest of the product team to prioritize features, infrastructure improvements, paying back technical debt etc. The product team owns it's own roadmap, and everyone contributes to that beyond "just writing code"

What we are looking for

  • At least a few years of experience in building web or data-intensive applications. The specific technologies don't matter much, but working knowledge of Typescript, Python or Postgres doesn't hurt

  • Self-starter who is interested in understanding the product and business in addition to the technical details.

  • Good communication skills and fluency in English

What we offer

  • Small and talented team to work with. You’ll have a significant impact on both what we build and how we build things.

  • Interesting technical and product challenges.

  • Competitive salary, stock options and all the usual perks. We’re well funded so we don’t need to skimp on salaries, but small enough for the stock option grant to be meaningful.

  • Work from wherever you want. We’ve been working remotely long before it became mainstream, it’s in the very core of our culture, and we’re doing it quite well.

The position is first and foremost remote. We do have offices in Helsinki and Berlin, which are wonderful locations, but based in or near either is in no way required. For legal reasons, however, you should be eligible to work in either Finland or Germany.

For more information or questions please contact us at lauri@matchmade.tv

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Equity package
Equity package

Want to be a partner? Look no further.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

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Working at
Matchmade

At Matchmade, we're building a new kind of marketplace that connects social media creators with advertisers and brands. It's a $10B industry, growing rapidly and ripe for disruption with data and automation. Using sophisticated data analysis, we match products with relevant creators based on their audience. Steering away from hand-picking talent, we’re pioneering an automated model that selects creators in high volumes. We encourage advertisers to let creators have control over how they integrate sponsored content. Through this we aim to empower creators, giving them more opportunities to integrate authentic sponsorships and make an income from what they love doing. We’re a small and experienced team shaping the future of the fastest growing new media out there. We come from diverse backgrounds from all over the world. We treat each other like adults, but aren’t too serious about it. This means a high degree of self-direction, transparency, plenty of opportunities to learn and grow, and a low tolerance for unnecessary hierarchy, processes, or bureaucracy. Life is too short to work with assholes. If you think so too, we’re looking forward to your application! Our goal is to bring fairness and transparency to the fast-growing creator marketing industry. Every person on our team contributes to that goal, so, every person gets a seat at the table. We believe in transparency - everything ranging from financial data through business document drafts to code repositories is by default accessible by the whole team, which means you can attend daily stand-ups or give written feedback on a blog post if you’re curious or want to share your thoughts. We believe that diversity and inclusion are important to our company's success and thus we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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