About Ottimate:

Ottimate is changing the way the hospitality industry manages its finances through life-changing Accounts Payable automation. Our mission is to eliminate manual work from every aspect of business expenses and enable business operators to stay in control of their spending at all times.

The Role:

Ottimate’s mission is to make accounts payable (AP) and payments effortless for businesses. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market, specifically in fintech and payments. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is a big plus but familiarity with other modern technologies is a solid substitute. If you have a strong background in other frameworks, we are open to that. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for.

You will:

• Discuss, plan, build and test new features.
• Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience.
• Develop integrations with 3rd party APIs
• Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users.
• Manage code reviews through Pull Requests and make sure we’re moving fast while maintaining Unit Tests and quality.
• Help migrate some of the modules into independent micro-services.
• Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers.

Requirements

You have/are:

• 5+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes.
• Proficient in Python and Django.
• Debugging complex database performance issues.
• You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it’s serving the users’ needs.
• You have built performant and scalable backends, made pragmatic tradeoffs, and can point to your prior work.
• You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way.
• When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues.
• Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English

Ottimate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or marital status. If you are excited about the role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. Nothing in this job posting should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

Benefits

We care deeply about making Ottimate an incredible place to work and invest a significant amount of time and energy into creating and maintaining a company culture that provides our team with a generous level of support whilst inspiring them to do their best work. 

The specific benefits/perks we offer are continually evolving, but currently include:

• Compensation: $150,000
• Medical, Dental, Vision and other Company-Subsidized Benefits for you and your family.
• Employer sponsored 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off (and the encouragement to use it).
• Annual company retreats.
• Promote from within philosophy.

Beyond the tangible benefits though:

• You will be part of a growing team, at a pinnacle moment of scale for the business, and experience the excitement of working in a startup where each action makes a huge difference.
• You will have the agency to solve difficult problems creatively, the freedom to explore work that inspires you, and infrastructure to ensure you’re constantly challenged and developing.
• You will work with sharp, passionate teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and positioning our product as a premier finance automation solution. 
• Our commitment to empowering a diverse and inclusive workforce, celebrating differences, and creating a safe space for our employees to bring their whole selves to work is second to note.
• We are transforming entire industries using innovative technology including Artificial Intelligence, Payment Tech, and Neural Networks.
• Our leaders lead with a people-first approach; inspiring excellence, nurturing ideas, and finding creative ways to eliminate obstacles for cultivating growth.
• We truly love what we do and who we do it with – and we think you will too!

Ottimate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or marital status. If you are excited about the role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. Nothing in this job posting should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

Ottimate is an AI-powered AP [Accounts Payable] automation platform that empowers finance teams to reduce costs, prevent overpayments, detect fraud, and enforce policy compliance across the entire invoice-to-payment lifecycle.

Ottimate provides a smarter way for AP managers, approvers, controllers, and CFOs to work through the entire invoice lifecycle. With mature deep learning capabilities, Ottimate gets to know your business and AP process down to the line-item, supporting a custom approval and payment workflow.

Ottimate not only eliminates over 90% of the manual accounting process but also provides insights into invoices and spend, helping finance professionals uncover opportunities for growth. This means more strategic business decisions for CFOs and a better day-to-day for the entire team.