Senior Backend Software Engineer at Antler

About Antler

Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Founded on the belief that people innovating is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 26 cities, including Austin, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney. Our global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,000 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030.

A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward. We ease the path to entrepreneurship so more exceptional people can launch and scale companies that disrupt the status quo, create employment, contribute to GDP, and drive technology development and adoption. As the world presents an ever-increasing number of opportunities and challenges, founders are more needed than ever to address them. Join us to support them and help make progress inevitable.

The Role

In this role you will be building technology that will help discover future founders, and support them in realizing their full potential. You will be joining a team who is experienced in building successful tech start-ups. If you are someone who prefers to work in environments with high autonomy coupled with high accountability, this is the role for you. We are business-focused software engineers. 

You will be solving difficult problems with smart people, in a rapidly growing company. The team is still in its early stages of growth, with significant future upside to expand the product offering and make a big impact to founders globally. If this excites you, then you are in the right place. 

Responsibilities:

• This is a full-stack role with a focus on backend development. You will be working primarily with React, Node.js, & GCP.
• Help build Antler’s internal technology platform, which supports both Antler fund teams to run efficient operations and also provides Antler founders with the tooling to facilitate company growth.
• Build scalable, maintainable, clean and high quality code all the way through to production and verify it’s solving the right problem for the customer.
• Communicating with other software engineers on the team, as well as product managers and designers, to make sensible engineering decisions.
• Ship fast, small increments to iterate quickly towards building working software.
• Understand the reasoning behind product decisions and contribute to implementation and architecture discussions.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable products. 
• Commercial experience developing backend solutions using Node.js.
• Experience architecting and building secure REST APIs.
• Database design experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Enthusiasm for solving business problems with technology.
• Be a team player who is driven, respectful of others, passionate about what you do, and determined to achieve results.

Desired skills & interests:

• Commercial experience developing front-end solutions using React and TypeScript.
• Having a general interest in startups - it will help in understanding the product we are building.
• Experience with serverless architecture.
• An interest in using AI to solve business problems.

What we offer

• Hybrid working: 2 days in our central Sydney office per week.
• Autonomy in your role.
• A non-hierarchical, results focused environment.
• Long term incentive plan aligned to the success of our global investment funds.
• Learning and development: regular technical presentations from senior members of the team.