Lead Engineer - Core Platform - Contrarian Thinking

The Mission you'll be helping us with:

BizScout is a technology startup headquartered in Austin, TX, and we are revolutionizing the way everyday individuals engage in buying and selling businesses, moving away from the traditional realm of Wall Street. We believe that buying small businesses should be as easy as buying real estate. We serve as the vital link between one generation's legacy of small business creation and the next generation who will buy and innovate within them. 

Our platform acts as a rapidly expanding marketplace for business transactions, complemented by a dedicated brokerage arm providing personalized support to real people. With a grand vision to pair technology with brokerage services, we aim to establish ourselves as the premier destination for business exchanges, driven by genuine human connections, and we need your help to do it.

While we may have a low profile now, our team consists of the highest caliber talent from leading global marketplaces and is supported by Contrarian Thinking. 

Our parent company:

Contrarian Thinking, led by Codie Sanchez, former Wall Street and Private Equity investor, is a leading digital media company, education business and an investment firm. We are one of fastest growing business media companies in the USA with over 100 million views per month and 5+ million social followers. We own holding companies of small businesses that comprise our enterprise and are launching several new channels and businesses in 2024. 

Your future opportunity with us:

We are seeking a  Lead Engineer for the Core Platform. You'll be a trusted thought partner - making an impact by supporting the organization in developing next-generation technologies and complex features that connect buyers and sellers. As a key part of our early team, you will be a leader in growing our company and have a direct impact on the future of our platform and product roadmap. Reporting directly to the General Manager, you'll own the short term decision making & long term strategic planning of the core product at BizScout.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineer with marketplace experience that wants to merge their passion for technical excellence with their passion for building something new and great. You need to have a vision in order to make a big impact for BizScout buyers, sellers, partners, and clients.  You must have a love of main street over wall street.  In addition to possessing the technical mind needed to execute on the day-to-day, you will need to demonstrate a creative approach in the development of proprietary software, collaborating closely with our lead designer to ensure both functionality and aesthetic appeal.

What you'd be leading:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain impactful improvements across all BizScout platforms and products, resulting in high-quality outcomes
• Collaborate with team members to ensure best practices across our code
• Manage individual initiative priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor other team members and help many increase their technical capabilities, fostering a culture of forwardness, results-oriented execution, open innovation, and unlimited creativity
• The ability to translate user requirements into functional and intuitive user interfaces
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices. 
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving bugs or issues reported by users or QA testers.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continuously enhance your skills and contribute innovative ideas to the team.

The experience you'll bring us:

• Extensive experience developing robust, mission-critical systems using multiple general-purpose web programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Kotlin)
• The ability to scale while at the same time being comfortable starting from the the group up and getting the basics right
• 8+ years of experience working with production systems based on web frameworks. Payment/Commerce/Marketplace domains are a plus
• Proven ability to learn other coding languages, platforms, frameworks, and tools
• Experience owning projects from the initial idea all the way to production
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Direct experience with startups

How we work together:

At BizScout your input matters and we want to hear it. We genuinely care about our work and each other. We help support and grow each other and celebrate our wins on the path to making the experiences for business buyers, sellers brokers the best it can be. We drive high impact, thrive at a fast pace and deliver on the things we say we will deliver on. We have a great time doing it.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Opportunities for career growth
• A dynamic and innovative work environment
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible working hours
• Potential remote flexibility
• Pioneer a new industry with a new small business M&A model (i.e.'Innovation on innovation') with direct access to industry leading experts
• Have a net positive impact on the future of our country and ownership for everyday humans

Target Salary Range:

• $200k-$300k plus incentive bonuses and equity

The target salary range is a subset of a competitive total reward package including equity, benefits and incentive pay as applicable. Individual pay may also vary, as it takes into account a number of parameters including experience, location, internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations