Haskell Backend Engineer

About us

• Gauss turns debt into savings by refinancing expensive credit card debt. We're backed by Y Combinator and other leading global investors.

Mission

• We are on a mission to make credit cheaper for those who need it most and help people leverage credit to become better off financially.
• Our guiding principle is maximum impact, minimum disturbance — giving our customers the easiest way to create savings out of debts without much disruption to their financial lives.

Culture

• We're a fully remote squad. We praise autonomy, self-motivation, and self-management. We expect everyone to truly care about what they do, take pride in how they do it, and strive for self and team improvement.
• We believe we're working on some really cool things that will make a dent for society as a whole, and hope everyone who joins will find it fascinating to connect the dots between their work and the impact it has.
• If you love technology and helping people — we'd love to talk.

You will do

• You'll be writing code in Haskell and work with our PostgreSQL database and AWS infrastructure. If you don’t have much experience with AWS or SQL, don't worry — we'll ensure you have the training and support you need.

Requirements

• Understanding of how distributed web systems work.
• Basic Haskell knowledge (courses and pet-projects are enough, it's also okay to learn the language and write your pet project just during the interview process).
• Good English reading / writing skills.
• No formal degree is required.

You'll get:

• Stable compensation $3,000-$5,500.
• Flexible hours, remote setup.
• Autonomy and influence.
• Applied Haskell experience in a large-scale setting.
• Globally resellable and highly in-demand experience in FinTech.
• Work closely with the founding team in an open, fast-moving, and fun environment.
• Experience with launching products in the most competitive market in the world.
• Steep learning curve across a wide range of hard and soft skills and responsibilities.
• Contribute to building products with a big social mission and world-class customer experiences.