02Senior Backend Engineer
About this role
Specter Get started New Hire Jan Hoekman ex- Byte Trading joined our Engineering team now New Hire Thomas Mead ex- Botto joined our GTM team now New Hire Alex Barnes ex- Gain joined our GTM team 2mo New Hire Adrian Tenemaya ex- Tacto joined our Engineering team 3mo New Hire Philipp Berhoerster ex- Bloomberg joined our GTM team 12mo Build the edge with us. A small team, a massive market, and a lot left to build. Join our team We are building the most complete platform for private markets. Entity Specter Competitors Your Edge Companies 55M+ 20M 2.75x People 550M+ 160M 3.4x Investors 330K+ 160K 2x Transactions 1M+ 700K +43% FOUNDER'S NOTE " We didn't want to build another Wikipedia of companies. We wanted to build the unfair advantage . Marco Squarci CEO & Co-founder We track signals about companies, people, and investors nobody else does. Endpoint Competitors Revenue Signals REAL-TIME ✕ News REAL-TIME ✕ Talent Signals REAL-TIME ✕ Interest Signals REAL-TIME ✕ FOUNDER'S NOTE " Real-time signals aren't a feature. They're the unfair edge nobody else gives you. And we intend to keep it that way. Dominik Vacikar Co-founder Things you probably didn't know about us. Five small truths that say more about Specter than any pitch deck. Fact 01 Fully bootstrapped. We're the only company in our space that has never raised a dime. $0 raised Fact 02 From a pool to London. Our first office had a swimming pool. Now we're in central London. → Fact 03 We punch above our weight. Out-shipping teams 10× our size. Us Them 10× headcount diff. Fact 04 Builders, not suits. 6 in 10 of us write code or ship product. 6 / 10 on the tools, daily. Fact 05 Claude is employee #1. Our most prolific teammate runs on Anthropic. Hello, my name is Claude Employee #1 On the first call Things people ask us on first calls. The questions we get every week. Answered straight from us. Marco & Dom Co-founders · active now Are you raising soon? Probably not. We're profitable, fully bootstrapped, and honestly — we like it that way. How do you beat funded competitors? We move faster, we obsess over the data, and we don't have 4 layers of approval to ship something. How fast do things move here? You'll ship something in your first week. No onboarding decks, no waiting for access. What kind of people thrive at Specter? Self-starters who treat the company's problem like their own. If it's broken, you fix it. If it's missing, you build it. iMessage ↑ We're hiring Open roles. 9 positions across 4 teams. Every hire matters. Engineering [ 02 ] 01 AI Engineer 02 Senior Backend Engineer Go-To-Market [ 05 ] 01 Senior Account Manager 02 Founding GTM Engineer 03 Senior Account Executive 04 GTM Associate 05 Product Specialist Operations [ 01 ] 01 Founder's Associate Research [ 01 ] 01 Investment Analyst Intern Don't see your role?
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Web Developer and Full Stack Developer too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a mid-level Software Engineering role in London, advertised as on-site.
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