Welcome! 👋

Accounting is the universal language of business and commerce, in every country, state, and city across the world. It is incredibly fascinating, highly logical and challengingly complex.

Yet, accountants have been largely neglected by the tech industry. Most of today’s accounting software was built on ancient codebases over 20 years ago and moves as slow as an oil tanker.

This lack of tools has accountants overwhelmed and led to a bad reputation- don’t you dread speaking with your ‘bean-counting’ colleagues from the Finance team?

But with AI, we can now build a 10x better product that automates 75%+ of the accountant’s tasks, allowing them to focus on driving business insights rather than playing catch-up with last month’s financials.

Accounting will undergo a radical transformation over the next 10 years, and we are driving this change!

Overview:

👨‍💻 Senior Backend Engineer building SaaS product

🧠 Bring AI to the outdated accounting industry

🏆 Work with serial founders (sold previous company: $380m raised, $100m ARR, 280+ team)

🎒 Well-funded by the world’s top VC firms and unicorn founders, specialized in AI SaaS

💰 Base salary range $100,000 to $170,000 USD + significant equity package (~$100k+) + bonus

📍 Europe/UK - Remote | New York City - HQ

Our Founders:

Our Founders started their previous company after meeting while coding in Computer Science class. With just $2,000 in savings, the two bootstrapped their first company to $25 million in ARR - and profitably - in just 5 years. They then raised $325 million of venture funding, rapidly scaling the business to 250+ people, >$100 million in ARR and an exit. With DualEntry, they have now decided to tackle their biggest pain point from their first 8-year journey of entrepreneurship: outdated accounting systems. Our Founders have been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and multiple podcasts incl. the Tim Ferris Show with over 2+ million downloads to their episode.

About DualEntry:

We’re a well-funded, pre-launch ‘stealth mode’ company modernizing accounting with AI.

• We believe AI will disrupt accounting over the next 10 years. 77%+ of today's accounting workflows are already fully automatable (McKinsey & Co). AI has the power to automate particularly manual and pattern-based tasks - it’s perfect for accounting.

• We believe the opportunity is now.  Existing accounting softwares are ill-positioned for AI with their ancient architectures and have some of the lowest satisfaction scores in all of FinTech, i.e: they're still stuck in the 1990's!

• We believe the opportunity is huge. Every company needs back-office accounting services; SAP is the 7th largest tech company in the world; plus, there’s an extreme shortage of accounting talent with ~75% of CPAs retiring over the next 10 years (Wall Street Journal).

• We believe ‘boring’ industries are actually the most interesting. Traditionally ‘boring’ industries such as accounting are often times underrated, largely neglected, much more challenging than people think and present some of the greatest opportunities to solve problems where others don’t want to look.

The below screenshot is an example of Netsuite, the dominant mid-market accounting software valued at ~$30bn today and acquired by Oracle in 2016:

Accounting will undergo a radical transformation over the next 10 years, and we are driving this change!

What You Bring:

• 6+ yrs of total backend software development experience incl. testing

• Experience managing long-term software development complexity in a business-logic heavy project

• Experience launching products from start to finish (incl. building CI/CD)

• Experience with building and testing APIs

• Experience with database management systems, SQL, ORMs, and data migrations

• Experience integrating with various 3rd-party, preventing negative outcomes and managing unexpected risks

• Experience deploying AWS (or similar) cloud services

• Willingness to work hard and ship product at high velocity, especially on Fridays

• Experience in one more more programming languages (we are agnostic to your language experience)

How You Operate:

• Pragmatic ⚡: you like to move forward and make decisions based in reality (not theory). We don't debate if Cassandra has the most theoretical scalability -- we use Postgres until it breaks

• Hard working 🛠️: 'You can work long, hard, or smart, but [here] you can't choose two out of three" - Jeff Bezos. We wrote this job post during the weekend

• High speed 🏇: we deploy to production at least once a day and constantly strive to move faster. We take full ownership for our work and commit all-in

• Curious 🤓: you love to learn, are highly curious about new frameworks and solutions to engineering problems

Perks:

• Base salary range from $100,000 to $170,000 USD 💰, depending on qualifications and experience

• Equity ownership package 📈, ~$100k+ USD

• Remote-first 🏠👨‍💻

• 15 days annual leave 🏝, plus 12 public holidays

• Option for sponsorship to relocate with us to New York within 2+ years 🇺🇸

• Freedom, autonomy and responsibility 💪

• Work from Home Support 🏡

  • Choose your own equipment 💻

  • Home office setup allowance 🪑

  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet 📱

  • Gym or fitness sponsorship 🏃

Interview Process:

• 20-minute introductory video call with a Talent Acquisition Partner (cultural fit)

• 30-minute introductory video call with one of the Co-Founders (fit and technical)

• Asynchronous take-home case study (~2-4 hrs, 1 week timeline)

• 60-minute case study review with our lead backend engineer (technical)

• Super Day meeting (~2-3 hrs) with rest of the DualEntry team (fit and technical)

• 2 reference checks

As of June 2024, we have 2 out of 4 Senior Backend Engineer seats left on our team. If you’re thinking about how to spend your time in a most useful way and you’re excited about applying AI to reshape the accounting industry, then we want to hear from you!