Engineering Manager, Foundation

Middesk is the business identity platform. Our APIs allow B2B companies to access the information, insights, and documentation they need to onboard and transact with their customers. Our products help product, risk, and finance teams make informed regulatory compliance and commercial credit decisions, confirm that suppliers meet federal and state licensing requirements, and register their customers with the necessary government agencies.

Our verification product allows platforms like Shopify, Affirm, and Wells Fargo to determine the legitimacy of any business in the United States and automate Know Your Business (KYB) requirements. In addition, our products can be used to identify a business's industry, sanctions risks, bankruptcies, financing liens, and active or pending litigations. Enterprises such as ServiceChannel and Tesla use our products to ensure that all of their suppliers are legitimate businesses registered with the necessary government agencies.

Based in San Francisco and NYC, Middesk is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Y Combinator.

The role: Engineering Manager, Foundation

Lead and grow the team that builds the platform and infrastructure to enable Middesk as an innovative, data-powered company. Our data platform is the foundation for our suite of products, which help our customers build differentiated products and transact more efficiently.

Domains of ownership include:

• Data platform

• Data analytics, data science, and machine learning infrastructure

• Developer experience

• Site reliability engineering

• Security engineering

A list of example projects for the team and role:

• Scaling -- breadth and depth -- of Middesk data products via models for entity resolution, knowledge graphs, and so forth

• Experimenting with novel ways to improve or augment the data platform

• Taking steps towards a better self-serve model for internal data analytics

• Tuning performance -- e.g. cost, speed -- for offline, batch processing

• Expanding the scope of the security engineering program

What you'll do

• Become an expert in the subject of business identity.

• Interact with product and other functional teams to align our technical strategy with customer goals and business needs.

• Influence long-term vision for Middesk infrastructure and data platform.

• Drive development by establishing highly collaborative, transparent, and efficient execution practices. Work through the team to establish feedback loops that facilitate continuous improvement of the development process.

• Develop your team and organization through technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, hiring, and being the glue.

Why you'll love it here

• Customer First: We stay energized by solving real customer problems and make each interaction meaningful and embrace the challenging path to help our customers succeed.

• Be an owner: We identify and tackle problems, take pride in our work, and measure impact. When we find an opportunity to improve the status quo, take it on!

• Act with urgency and purpose: We move quickly and simplify things as we go. We solve the problems that we have today in ways that allow us to move even faster in the future.

• Drive results together: We choose teamwork. We share our opinions, ask questions, understand where others are coming from, and move forward as a unified front.

• Embrace the journey: We dream big and are open to taking risks. Innovation happens through optimism, positivity, rigorous thinking, and hard work.

Middesk is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. As an equal opportunity employer; we're committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.