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Fullstack Engineer (Mid-Level)

Spade · New York, NY · Remote

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About Spade

Spade takes messy transaction data and turns it into structured, verified records — with AI agents that help you use it everywhere it matters. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

As a Full Stack Engineer at Spade, you’ll own product experiences end-to-end, working across both the frontend and backend of our enrichment platform. You’ll build customer-facing interfaces in React and TypeScript, as well as the Python/Django APIs, data models, and platform services that power them. This is a high-ownership role on a small team, where your decisions will directly shape the usability, performance, and reliability of products processing hundreds of millions of transactions.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems in fast-paced environments
  • Strong background with Python, Django, React and Typescript
  • Experience with API development, SQL, and modern front end frameworks and technologies
  • Experience building customer-facing systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
  • A product mindset and strong problem solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and focus on delivering customer value
  • A collaborative mindset, fostering a culture shared success and continuous improvement
More about this role

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 is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features.

Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, 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...

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