The Role

We are looking for a seasoned, high-impact Senior Backend Developer to join our team as a core technical driver. This isn't just a role for someone who can write code; it’s for a true architect and builder who thrives on the "0-to-1" journey. You will be instrumental in designing the backbone of a new product, turning ambitious visions into scalable, production-ready reality.

As a senior member of the team, you will navigate ambiguity with ease, owning the backend lifecycle from data modeling to cloud deployment. You’ll be a key technical voice, collaborating directly with product stakeholders to ensure our infrastructure is as robust as our ambitions.

What You'll Do

• Build the Foundation: Architect and write high-quality, maintainable backend code primarily in Python, ensuring our systems are built for scale from day one.

• Design & Deliver APIs: Own the design and implementation of RESTful APIs, focusing on elegant data modeling and secure authentication.

• Architect for the Future: Leverage serverless and event-driven architectures to build responsive, modern systems.

• Own the Infrastructure: Work hands-on with Terraform/CloudFormation to treat infrastructure as code, ensuring seamless deployments across cloud platforms.

• Champion DevOps Culture: Manage containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines to ensure a smooth, automated path to production.

• Solve Complex Problems: Act as a proactive troubleshooter, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing system performance across SQL and NoSQL databases.

What You Bring (Must-Haves)

• Seasoned Expertise: 5+ years of professional backend focus, with a deep mastery of the Python ecosystem (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).

• Architectural Fluency: A strong understanding of how to build for the cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using event-driven and serverless patterns.

• Database Mastery: Proficiency in both relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational (MongoDB) data stores.

• Modern Workflow Mindset: You are at home with Git, Docker, and Kubernetes, and you view CI/CD as a prerequisite, not an afterthought.

• Proactive Ownership: A "gets-it-done" attitude. You don’t wait for a ticket; you identify what needs to be built and you lead the way.

• Clear Communication: The ability to explain complex backend logic to non-technical partners and collaborate fluently in English.

What We’d Love to See (Nice-to-Haves)

• Cloud-Native Specialist: Hands-on experience specifically building and deploying within the AWS ecosystem.

• Polyglot Leanings: Proficiency in JavaScript (Node.js) to help bridge gaps across the stack.

• Community Presence: Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, or active participation in developer communities.

What We Offer

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LOCATION: Austin, Texas (Hybrid) 3 days per week

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Location: Austin (in-person) 

Build the infrastructure powering the future of restaurant payments

At inKind, we’re building the financial infrastructure that connects restaurants, diners, and capital in entirely new ways. Our platform powers real-time financial transactions and operational workflows for restaurants across the country.

We’re looking for entrepreneurial, forward-thinking engineers who thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy solving complex technical problems at scale. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design and build systems that support mission-critical financial workflows used daily by restaurants and partners.

Our engineering team works with an AI-first mindset — leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development, automate workflows, and unlock new product capabilities. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to experiment with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards for reliability and scalability.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, business, and engineering teams to build systems that directly impact the restaurants and partners who rely on inKind for real-time financial operations.

What You’ll Work On

You’ll help design and operate the systems that power our financial platform.

Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events
• Architect services that handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints
• Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows
• Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data

AI-First Engineering

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows
• Contribute to AI-enabled product features and automation across the platform
• Help evolve how our team integrates modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices
  
  

Reliability & Production Operations

• Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery in mind
• Debug complex production issues across distributed services
• Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions
• Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation
• Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the team

Who Thrives Here

The engineers who succeed at inKind tend to be:

Builder Mindset
You enjoy taking ownership, experimenting with new ideas, and shipping impactful solutions.

Systems Thinkers
You understand how complex systems interact and can design resilient architectures.

Forward-Thinking Engineers
You’re excited about modern development practices and exploring how AI can improve the way we build software.

Pragmatic Problem Solvers
You know when to refactor, when to optimize, and when to ship.

Collaborative Teammates
You communicate clearly and work well with engineering, product, and business partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
• Strong distributed systems design experience
• Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.)
• Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity
• Experience designing highly available production systems
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth
• Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems
• Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows
• Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features

Why Engineers Like Working Here

• Work on real-world financial infrastructure used by restaurants every day
• High ownership and autonomy in architectural decisions
• Opportunity to help shape an AI-first engineering culture
• Collaborative environment working closely with product and business teams
• Fast-moving startup environment where your work directly impacts customers

Some of our Benefits:

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
• 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee's additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee's cost); vision plan available at employee's additional cost
• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave
• Dog-friendly workspace in a secure building with great views of downtown Austin
• Daily lunches and snacks for in-office team members

Salary

$160,000 – $185,000, DOE

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Reports to: Director of Engineering

Build the infrastructure powering the future of restaurant payments

At inKind, we’re building the financial infrastructure that connects restaurants, diners, and capital in entirely new ways. Our platform powers real-time financial transactions and operational workflows for restaurants across the country.

We’re looking for entrepreneurial, forward-thinking engineers who thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy solving complex technical problems at scale. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design and build systems that support mission-critical financial workflows used daily by restaurants and partners.

Our engineering team works with an AI-first mindset — leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development, automate workflows, and unlock new product capabilities. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to experiment with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards for reliability and scalability.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, business, and engineering teams to build systems that directly impact the restaurants and partners who rely on inKind for real-time financial operations.

What You’ll Work On

You’ll help design and operate the systems that power our financial platform.

Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events
• Architect services that handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints
• Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows
• Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data

AI-First Engineering

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows
• Contribute to AI-enabled product features and automation across the platform
• Help evolve how our team integrates modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices
  
  

Reliability & Production Operations

• Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery in mind
• Debug complex production issues across distributed services
• Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions
• Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation
• Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the team

Who Thrives Here

The engineers who succeed at inKind tend to be:

Builder Mindset
You enjoy taking ownership, experimenting with new ideas, and shipping impactful solutions.

Systems Thinkers
You understand how complex systems interact and can design resilient architectures.

Forward-Thinking Engineers
You’re excited about modern development practices and exploring how AI can improve the way we build software.

Pragmatic Problem Solvers
You know when to refactor, when to optimize, and when to ship.

Collaborative Teammates
You communicate clearly and work well with engineering, product, and business partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
• Strong distributed systems design experience
• Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.)
• Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity
• Experience designing highly available production systems
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth
• Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems
• Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows
• Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features

Why Engineers Like Working Here

• Work on real-world financial infrastructure used by restaurants every day
• High ownership and autonomy in architectural decisions
• Opportunity to help shape an AI-first engineering culture
• Collaborative environment working closely with product and business teams
• Fast-moving startup environment where your work directly impacts customers

Some of our Benefits:

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
• 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee's additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee's cost); vision plan available at employee's additional cost
• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave
• Dog-friendly workspace in a secure building with great views of downtown Austin
• Daily lunches and snacks for in-office team members

Salary

$160,000 – $185,000, DOE

Location: Austin (Domain), TX (In-office 4x per week)

Company: Kizen, www.kizen.com

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

About Us

Kizen’s Platform, AI Agents & True Context Technology (TCT) power millions of mission-critical experiences for leading organizations in highly regulated industries (insurance, healthcare, financial services).

Our platform helps organizations automate the workflows that matter most — from helping insurance agents manage contracting and commissions, to enabling healthcare providers to deliver proactive patient care, to empowering financial institutions to classify documents and extract data automatically.

And that’s just the beginning. With Kizen, developers can build new enterprise applications and impactful AI agents, while business users can customize dashboards and agents using natural language, low-code, or code — all on the same platform.

What used to take months or years to build, configure, and connect now takes just days. Kizen combines powerful pre-built agents and use cases with an enterprise platform for automation and data connection — all built on an AI-first architecture that’s easy to adopt, scale, and trust.

We’re solving real operational problems and helping the world’s most complex organizations work faster, smarter, and more humanely.

Join us in transforming how industries work — one workflow, one agent, and one customer success story at a time.

About the Role

Want to help create the future of work? We’re putting AI and intelligent automation to real use in the hands of real people.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer with a history of focusing on user outcomes and rapidly delivering reliable, scalable systems as we bring our next-gen platform to the world. 

This is an opportunity of a lifetime for someone who wants to be at the heart of the AI movement to better humanity. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be working directly with our Director of Platform Engineering to build new user-facing features and enhancements, and to scale the core Kizen platform with our users’ growing needs.

Our core values are the heart of Kizen’s DNA. They are baked into our culture, drive our decisions, and manifest in how we treat our customers, partners, and each other. We are:

• Customer Obsessed. We are fanatical about making our customers wildly successful. We adopt our customers’ missions as our own, and do not rest until they have made their mark on the world and achieved every last goal.
• Fiercely Kind. Kindness is a way of life, so we strive to be a force for good in all we do. We value all people, treating others with unwavering respect, compassion, and understanding. In the spirit of stewardship, we aim to leave things better than they were.
• Relentlessly Excellent. We build amazing teams and unleash their talents. We approach our work with a sense of urgency, always giving our best effort, then trying to do a little better. We operate with complete transparency, creating trust and resolving issues faster. 
• Amazingly Fun. Doing the job of your dreams should be outrageously fun. We laugh a lot, and celebrate early and often. We embrace an attitude of optimism and genuinely enjoy collaborating.

Key Responsibilities 

• Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we’re building scalable, maintainable software
• Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
• Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure that the backend tickets keep the frontend team fully enabled
• Craft elegant, reliable, and scalable code
• Write tests to ensure stability as the codebase evolves over time
• Meet technical issues head on: troubleshooting and quickly creating resolution plans to rapidly address acute customer impact, while also planning for long-term success

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or greater required in Computer Science (preferred), Information Technology, or related field (Physics, mathematics, engineering)
• Ability to facilitate a task’s entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
• 7+ years of professional development experience (Python preferred)
• 2+ years developing on Django
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or managing enterprise-scale PostgreSQL implementations
• 2+ years of direct experience with database optimization techniques like indexing, clustering, and sharding
• Experience deploying and optimizing cloud-hosted applications (AWS preferred, Kubernetes Preferred)
• Exceptional collaboration, organizational, time management, and communication skills
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
• Driven and self-motivated with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing with Django REST Framework
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
• Experience with RabbitMQ
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Experience with data replication technologies/redundancy to ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• You’ve made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects
• Passion for data warehousing, business intelligence, and predictive analytics

Why Kizen

We’re a fast-growing company that values innovation, growth, and continuous improvement. By joining Kizen, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the company while enjoying a supportive, dynamic, and collaborative workplace. You’ll have opportunities for professional development, impact, and career advancement.

What We Offer

• Career Growth Opportunities
• Engaging Work Culture
• Top-Tier Compensation
• Equity Package
• Healthcare Coverage
• Professional Development Stipends
• PTO 

Kizen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Kizen, we fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. 

The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000k. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to base salary, we also offer generous equity and benefits packages.

If you’re excited about creating impactful experiences and contributing to a fast-paced, people-focused team, we’d love to meet you!

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

Location: Domain (Austin office)

Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role

Position Overview

Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.

The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.

Our Engineering organization is a fast-growing team of collaborative, technically strong, and passionate problem solvers. We value creativity, ownership, and the drive to build meaningful technology that solves real-world security challenges. Every engineer has the opportunity to make a measurable impact—on the product, the company, and our culture. We believe in using the right tools for each problem, mentoring and learning through peer reviews, and continuously improving how we build. 

The Application Data Platform team designs, builds, and maintains data-intensive applications that power customer-facing features across REST APIs and UI components. Python is our primary language, and we take pride in delivering end-to-end solutions—from frontend and API design to backend systems and databases.

Responsibilities:

• Translate product requirements into robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

• Collaborate with Product Management, UX, Security Research, and Data Science teams to simplify security for our customers.

• Provide technical leadership—mentoring, code reviews, and architectural guidance.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software in production environments.

• Own quality, reliability, and performance across the stack; proactively identify areas for improvement.

• Work with relational and non-relational databases to enable seamless data flow.

• Engage actively in team discussions—contributing ideas, asking questions, and driving continuous improvement.

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Python development experience.
• 3+ years working with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 4+ years of database experience, including relational systems (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Experience designing REST API contracts (OpenAPI, Swagger, etc.).
• Skilled in debugging, performance profiling, automated testing, and documentation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and modern development practices for data-intensive systems.
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with Unix/Linux environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-motivated and proactive; able to take initiative and challenge assumptions constructively.

Preferred: 

• Experience with Python web and asynchronous frameworks (Django, Flask, Celery, FastAPI).
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization standards (OAuth, OIDC, IAM, SAML).
• Experience with full-stack development, particularly backend-heavy applications.
• Strong SQL tuning and performance optimization skills.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Troposphere).
• Familiarity with analytical (OLAP) and Lakehouse databases (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake, BigLake, etc.).

Education: 

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience)

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Early-stage, venture-backed

About Reflex

Reflex is building the infrastructure that powers modern retail labor. By 2030, Reflex will look like the largest retail workforce in the world without owning a single store.

More than sixteen million Americans work in retail stores today, yet staffing remains reactive, inefficient, and costly for both retailers and workers. Retailers struggle with unreliable coverage and limited visibility into labor performance, while workers face unpredictable schedules and inconsistent income.

Reflex addresses this problem through a real-time, on-demand retail labor marketplace that connects national retail brands with trained, high-performing workers. The platform enables stores to flex staffing dynamically as demand changes, while creating performance-driven opportunities for workers. We’re scaling fast with some of the most notable brands in retail and are live in over 1,200+ active stores in the US.

This is a structurally complex, two-sided marketplace with real-world operational constraints. Reflex has demonstrated that the model works, with national retailers, growing marketplace liquidity, and rapid expansion. Backed by leading investors and operating at the Series A stage, the company is now focused on building durable systems that scale.

Notable Investors: Indicator Ventures, Canaan Partners, Precursor Ventures, Sugar Capital, ATX Venture Partners, Clutch VC, Active Capital, Red Swan Ventures, Gaingels, and several industry thought leaders.

The Role

Reflex is hiring a Head of Engineering to own the technical strategy, delivery execution, and operational maturity required to scale our platform for the next stage of growth.

This is a foundational builder role, not a caretaker position. You will partner directly with the Founder/CEO, and lead an existing engineering team of approximately 5-8 engineers. There is no CTO layer today, as such this is a high-visibility role, including Board/Investor exposure.

What You Will Build

Your mandate is to architect and implement a resilient foundation of systems and processes that allows Reflex to scale and carry us into our next stage of growth.

You will be responsible for:

People & organizational leadership:

• Build and Lead the Team: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of five engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback, and create growth paths that retain top talent.
• Establish Engineering Culture: Define and model engineering best practices, code review standards, and technical decision-making frameworks that scale as we grow.
• Drive Technical Hiring: Partner with leadership to recruit exceptional engineers, from writing job descriptions to conducting technical interviews to closing candidates.
• Strategic Technical Partnership: Collaborate with the Technical Lead to navigate the complexities of a two-sided marketplace, including real-time dispatching, matching algorithms, and high-concurrency data processing.
• Refine the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Partner with Product to optimize how features are defined, scoped, tracked, and delivered to ensure high velocity without burnout.

Technical leadership:

• Engineering Excellence & Standards: In collaboration with the technical lead, define and enforce the standards for code quality, documentation, and system reliability. You own the accountability for the team’s adherence to these best practices.
• Operational Oversight: Lead the strategy for DevOps and infrastructure (CI/CD, cloud spend, security compliance), ensuring the foundation is stable enough for the team to ship rapidly and safely.
• System Health & Risk Management: Own the technical debt backlog and incident response protocols.
• Pragmatic Hands-on Contribution: Contribute to feature implementation and code reviews alongside the team.

How You Will Work

This role requires hands-on ownership and fast, high-quality decision-making.

You should expect to:

• Personally ensure the stability of the system through sound technical decision making
• Work daily with exec team & engineering on priorities, tradeoffs, and technical direction
• Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and leverage

Why This Role Matters Now

Reflex has validated its model and is scaling rapidly. At the same time, marketplace complexity is increasing.

Decisions made in the next product strategy phase will determine whether Reflex compounds its advantage or accumulates long-term friction. This role exists to take the engineering team to the next step in operational maturity and technical excellence, transforming a high-growth group of builders into a disciplined, scalable organization ready to tackle the next frontier of innovation.

What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months)

• You have built a predictable delivery engine where the CEO and stakeholders have full confidence in roadmap timelines and the trade-offs required to meet them.
• You have implemented clear career paths and a culture of continuous feedback, resulting in high team engagement and the successful retention of top engineering talent.
• The platform remains resilient and performant under increasing marketplace load, with a clear strategy for managing technical debt and infrastructure costs as we scale.

About You

We are looking for an exceptional technical leader with high standards.

You likely bring:

• 9+ years in software development, including senior leadership experience
• 6+ years managing and growing high caliber engineering teams
• Deep, battle-tested experience in modern backend ecosystems (e.g., Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, Go)

You are someone who:

• Is passionate about growing engineers and their careers
• Is a strategic thinker, you see the Big Picture
• Loves technology and applying it to solve challenging problems
• Is comfortable owning ambiguous, high-stakes decisions
• Moves quickly with a strong bias toward action
• Cares deeply about craft, clarity, and outcomes

This role is not a fit for:

• Desire for pure management with no participation in implementation
• Desire for pure development without people management
• Candidates who prefer consensus-driven, low-intensity environments
• People unwilling to engage deeply with technical and operational details
• Anyone optimizing primarily for title or stability

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity at a stage where ownership can compound materially
• Direct influence on the company’s long-term trajectory
• Significant autonomy, trust, and access to leadership
• Learning velocity across product, data, and systems that few roles can match
• Full health benefits and a flexible, trust-based unlimited vacation policy.
• Hybrid work environment with an energetic, collaborative office in downtown Austin, TX

For the right person, this will be a challenging, high-impact role with outsized career leverage.

Our customers and workers come from every background, and our team does too. Reflex is proud to be an inclusive employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.