Frontend Engineer - Founding Team

📍 Location: NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.

Basis is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate Basis as part of their team, delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.

We closed a multi-fold oversubscribed seed round backed by top VCs last summer and are already in use at several leading, large accounting firms in the US.

Build

• Engineer intuitive frontend systems built around new, dynamic UX concepts

Take ownership

• Work directly with co-founders
• Oversee our users' interactions with our underlying models

Set culture and practice

• Shape our early engineering culture and processes
• Evolve our approach on frontend infrastructure, abstractions, component library, etc.

Wear multiple hats

• Help hire and build out the rest of the early engineering team - there will be no shortage of responsibility
• Balance long-term thinking and smart abstractions with shipping fast and iteratively

Essentials

• Experience: 4-6 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years and evidence of exceptional ability
• First principles reasoner: Ability to break complex concepts down to their fundamental elements and then build from there
• Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and technical authority
• Craftsmanship: Cares deeply about the product and the details that influence user experience
• Taste: Has opinions on what building a beautiful experience means
• Flexibility: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines
• Team-first mentality: you are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored
• Passion for vision: Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy
• Curious about latest AI: Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.
• NYC-based: Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week
• All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
• A little something extra: You know it when you see it

Bonus points

• Hiring: A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent
• Experience with enterprise financial workflows: Worked with corporate financial data or products geared to businesses
• Accounting: Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
• Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end