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withco

withco

Product
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Nov 21, 2024

“Men and Women Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” - Edward Shackleton, explorer of the Antarctic

Why be with company?

We all know what a great neighborhood feels like. The sad reality is that every day, our neighborhoods are losing their character, authenticity, and sense of community. From Main Streets to Manhattan, our beloved local businesses are being pushed out at unprecedented rates, replaced with corporate brands or empty storefronts. America is losing its small business backbone — its diversity, energy, and competitive edge.

All while there is a generational opportunity in commercial real estate directly ahead of us. We’ve been quietly and deliberately building withco to empower millions of small businesses to seize their opportunity to become their own landlords. And if we’re successful, we’ll have created not only the most financially impactful company of its time, but also neighborhoods that we’re proud to live in. Join our mission to make it exciting to be a small business owner in America.

We've raised $30M+ from the world's best investors, including Founders Fund, Canaan, NFX, BoxGroup, and angels like Ken Chenault, Danny Meyer, Venus Williams, Kevin Durant, and more.

How you'll help us succeed:

As a member of a small and highly collaborative engineering team, you’ll problem-solve technical solutions across the business. From building engaging products for our customers to developing efficient tools for our internal team, you’ll be involved with architecting, coding, and deploying products to production.

Reporting to our Head of Engineering, you'll be mission-critical to withco, building the systems that help us scale our core product, and making the prospect of ownership a reality for small business owners in America. As we grow, you'll build the tooling that helps our small business partners compete with the likes of Whole Foods and Starbucks, and become even more connected with the neighborhood they serve.

What you'll do:

  • Collaborate and pair with other engineers and product managers to identify and problems solve challenges across the business

  • Build high-quality products and tools in an agile fashion that support both our small business partners and our internal team

  • Take ownership of high impact initiatives that improve our data quality, provide reliable access to that data, and help us make better decisions

  • Shape our technical strategy, advocate for best practices, and spike out new technologies

What makes you a great fit:

  • You have at least 5+ years of experience building high-quality web applications across the entire front end-to-back end stack

  • You enjoy working in cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with product, design, and other areas of the business

  • You value automated testing and implementing good testing practices (unit tests, test-driven development)

  • You are comfortable with agile processes (e.g. XP, Scrum, Kanban) and engineering practices (e.g. CI/CD, test-driven development, pair programming)

  • You approach problems in a thoughtful way — you value simplicity, justify technical decisions and articulate tradeoffs

Our Culture

While small business is for everyone, withco’s culture is not for everyone. In fact, it’s for a very, very, very select group - an unusual, stunning minority who are audacious enough to achieve the impossible. What makes our culture so special is how much we:

  1. Expect team members to raise the bar

  2. Push on pace, while running the distance

  3. Obsess over our craft

  4. Challenge norms with courage and curiosity

  5. Share information broadly, deliberately, and directly

Our values are inspired by our customers. If these values describe you, and the people you want to work with, you’re likely to thrive here.

  • Relentlessness

  • Obsession

  • Curiosity

  • Macro-Optimism

  • Clarity

  • Accountability

  • Selflessness

Our Benefits

We’re building withco to create generational wealth not only for our small business customers, but also our team members. We endeavor to make it the most meaningful career experience of your life with brilliant colleagues. In addition, we offer:

  • Top decile all-in compensation for our stage

  • Eligibility for carried interest in our real estate vehicles

  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • A beautiful office in SoHo

  • Unlimited PTO and WFH

  • Paid parental leave

  • 401(k), FSA/HSA, and commuter benefits

  • Weekly team lunch and regular team events, always from/at a small business

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We care about building a uniquely diverse, energetic, inclusive, and service-oriented team — one that understands, cares about, and represents the different small business communities we aim to serve.