Title: Founding Engineer
Remuneration: Competitive salary + big equity
Location: Sydney, Australia (in-person, with WFH flex)
Job type: Full-time
Experience: 6+ years
About Klaro
Klaro is a workspace to help non-technical, non-financial people work with numbers. Think of it like Canva for numbers. Our early customers are creatives (designers, ecom founders, music artist managers) who need help with things like calculating break-even ticket sales for a concert or profit made on wholesale orders. Long-term, we envision Klaro as an essential part of every important decision.
Based in Sydney, Klaro is well-funded and backed by top Australian investors including Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Our Innovation Fund (OIF) as well as early employees from Canva and THE ICONIC.
Read more about Klaro on www.klaroapp.com
About the role
Klaro is seeking a passionate engineer with strong computer science fundamentals to join our team and contribute across the stack on an innovative collaborative web application. Areas where you might contribute include:
- 3D Canvas Engine.
- Computation Engine.
- Multiplayer Backend.
- React Frontend.
- API Integrations.
As an early-stage startup, this is a unique opportunity for a talented generalist to be involved in the entire product lifecycle. Beyond coding, you will be a key player in product workshops, customer support, and mentoring new engineers as the team scales. Your expertise and opinions will help drive the early engineering culture and processes that will become critical as the company grows.
About the stack
Languages: Typescript, Golang
Frontend: React, NextJS
Hosting : AWS
Database: Postgres
If your experience doesn’t perfectly align with our stack, don't fret, we are still interested in hearing from you if you have used similar tools and are eager to learn.
About you
- You have a proven track record of technical excellence.
- You care about every detail and the effect it has on the user.
- You’re ambitious and capable of creating your own motivation when given autonomy and a challenge.
- You believe that things should be as simple as possible but no simpler.
- You can think at the level of bits but are also able to understand things from the point of view of the customer.
- You understand what makes software reliable, scalable and maintainable, and are capable of implementing those properties in new or existing applications at a faster rate than your peers.
- You consider yourself a lifetime learner and get excited when you discover something interesting that you don’t know much about.
- You like being part of a smaller team of equally passionate and highly skilled people, working hard to aim for only the best and taking great pride in work done well.
Why join us?
🧡 Values-drive culture
💰 Backed by top Australian tech investors (Blackbird, OIF and SSV)
📈 Big equity - you'll be a founding member
🤓 Solve challenging problems in a collaborative setting
We're a well-funded startup with significant backing from investor like Blackbird, OIF and Side Stage Ventures, giving us runway for many years into the future. This means you will be paid a good salary but also, because we are in such an early stage, we are still able to offer really meaningful equity stakes.
Joining our founding team is a great opportunity for you to do your life's best work, accomplish more in a month than you would in a year, constantly learn new things at a breakneck pace and experience deep camaraderie in the process.
Interview process
The interview process post application is simple.
1) Informal chats with Niklas and the team to hear our pitch and understand your interests and goals.
2) A technical interview suitable to the role you are applying for.
3) A two-three day paid work trial where you come in and ship with us.
There’s no better way for each of us to figure out if we like working together than to work together.
