📍 NYC or Remote

Pollen’s Mission

Pollen is rooted in the belief that everyone should be able to control their own economic outcomes. Our platform connects self-employed workers to expert-made interactive playbooks that get them to hit their goals. We demystify the entrepreneurial process and over time, our vision is to become the SBA for the future of work.

Pollen is is backed by the industry’s leading investment firms: Founder Collective, XYZ Venture Partners and angel investors from Trilogy Education, b12, and more.

The position

We are looking for our founding engineer. You are a full-stack software engineer who enjoys bringing products to life, working with other engineers and product owners, and is excited to make economic ability accessible to all.

To be successful, you will wear many hats and will build, QA, deploy, monitor and iterate on the beautiful and quality products you bring to life. Importantly, as one of our earliest team members, you are excited to actively shape Pollen’s culture and how we work together.

Ideal qualifications

• 4+ years building consumer web products with modern frameworks (e.g. React, Ruby, Rails, Postgres, etc)
• Experience and passion for full stack web development. You consistently deliver delightful front end experiences and enjoy backend work.
• Experience building user-friendly APIs and integrations
• High user empathy and a passion for creating products that customers love.
• Experience architecting and building high quality and scalable code. You are a scrappy systems thinker who knows when to make tradeoffs between speed and scale.
• Well versed in taking a product from 0 to 1 and scaling services to support growing user base.
• Self-starter and owner mentality; you are highly collaborative, identify problems, and create solutions with limited oversight.
• Excited about shaping the culture and outcomes of an early stage organization.

Bonus points

• Experience integrating across tools and building API partnerships.
• DevOps experience managing CI/CD, monitoring and alerts, performance analysis and security.