About Us

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible transparent and liquid and were achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.

At Sydecar were not just a platform; were a trusted partner in venture capital. Were dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks from automating banking ensuring compliance handling contracts managing taxes to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

Locations: San Francisco (Hybrid 2 days per week in office)

About our Engineering Teams

Were hiring across multiple teams and are excited to match engineers with roles that align with their interests and strengths. Whether youre full stack front endfocused or more backendoriented we have opportunities that fit your skill set and where you want to grow.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript and React in a mono-repo structure

• Backend: TypeScript using NestJS and Prisma

• Database: PostgreSQL

• Testing & Code Quality: Jest and linted/auto-formatted with ESLint/Prettier

• Design: Wireframes and prototypes crafted in Figma

• Infrastructure: Maintained as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

What You Will Do

As a Staff Software Engineer you are the archetype for the engineering organization. You are comfortable leading large project teams or working on complex projects few others in the organization can take on. You leverage business and organizational awareness to outline quarter-long technology strategies and drive implementation across the organization elevating the quality functionality and potential of Sydecars core product. You are a Product engineer first helping our core applications team improve the experience for deal organizers and investors who combine to close hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding annually.

• Lead large/complex projects.

• Outline technology strategies with a 1-2 quarter time horizon.

• Cultivate the growth of talented full stack engineers through mentorship.

• Help shape the product and design roadmaps.

• Drive end-to-end the architectural decisions scalability planning and long-term strategic vision for these key components.

• Collaborate across functions with Product and Design Legal Compliance and Customer Experience and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive platform-wide solutions.

What Were Looking For

• 8 years of professional experience as a software engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership and driving org-wide impact.

• Expertise in building large-scale high-reliability distributed backend systems ideally in the fintech or payments space.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript is highly preferred.

• Experience managing the complete project lifecycle transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.

• Deep expertise in system architecture data modeling and building core services with clean interfaces.

• Product sense and a passion for advocating for the customer with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.

• Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely both in writing and verbally to diverse functional teams.

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects while also thriving in a team environment often guiding the work of several other engineers across multiple projects.

• Ability to implement and influence engineering best practices.

Sydecars values

Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities behaviors and interactions.

Be Committed

As a team we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity.

Be Excellent

We measure our success not just by what we achieve but by how we achieve itthrough integrity creativity elegance and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellence is not just doing things wellits looking for ways to do them better.

Be Humble

Humility is our key to personal and professional growth. We appreciate that great ideas can come from anywhere regardless of seniority pedigree or experience. We care more about collective outcomes than who gets credit or who does what. We try to not let our ego cloud our judgment.

Win Together

Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work perseverance sacrifice and most of all loving what we do. Winning requires that we give extrasometimes winning calls for late nights or extra effort and we show up for clients and each other with urgency and heart. While excellence is a journey winning is a destination.

Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin sex (including pregnancy) age physical mental or sensory disability HIV Status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service family medical history or genetic information family or parental status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.

Required Experience:

Staff IC