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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. 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 terms of merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, and enrich 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 opinion, background, and experience. 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.

We're looking for a senior backend engineer to help drive our next stage of growth. In this role, 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 data platform supporting our data science team
• 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

We're looking for candidates with:

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling backend Python-based systems in fast-paced environments
• Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas: infrastructure, data pipelines, and API development
• Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
• Product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value
• Collaborative working style, fostering a culture of mentorship, shared success, and continuous improvement