Imagine | Software Engineer, Core Systems and Applications | Full-Time | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | <a href="
Imagine | Software Engineer, Frontend | Full-Time | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | <a href="
Engineering at Imagine is currently a small team. As one of the first 5 employees, you will have the chance to shape culture, norms, and technical decisions. Above all, we are looking for engineers who are interested in building a company, comfortable contributing to architectural implementation, and able to work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
If you are interested, and the description below resonates with you, please email us at:
careers [at] gotimagine [dot] com
Who Are We?
Founded in September 2019, Imagine is building next generation payment infrastructure in the US to eliminate reliance on existing networks and banks that encumber merchants with excessive acceptance fees. Our tools enable merchants to target its most trusted, loyal customers with an ultra low cost payment rail at the same time as allowing each merchant to tailor bespoke proprietary marketing programs to lower churn. Imagine is a merchant centric payment network where all merchants on the network benefit from the network effects of others without the need to pay for third party loyalty programs or cash back schemes that are prevalent with existing card programs.
What is the Position?
We are focused on hiring engineers who have the experience to execute quickly and with foresight. This often means you have learned from implementing large scale projects, and you understand the successes to repeat and the various failures to plan against. We want people who have practical experience, and who can clearly articulate and implement a complex system from scratch.
If you join, you will:
    * Design a funds flow which is robust to failure, secure, and creative without restraint from the current card network rules.
    * Have deep involvement in day-to-day technical and operational decisions which will impact the future of the company for years to come.
    * Be heavily involved in recruiting and building a team of teammates you’ll be working closely with.

You should reach out if you feel you have:
    * Good API design sense and understands what makes an API a pleasure to work with instead of "just okay"
    * Experience with highly-available, low-latency applications performing under heavy load
    * The ability to thrive and grow with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
    * A love for getting deep into technical details and the experience needed to avoid getting bogged down in those details
    * Designed non-trivial applications and/or distributed systems, and can articulate common pitfalls, patterns, and tradeoffs required during varying levels of an application's lifecycle
    * Understanding of networking concepts and can fluently talk through a networking stack
    * Knowledge of standard security practices, protocols, and principles
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