InReach is changing how VC in Europe works, for good. Through data, software and Machine Learning, we are building an in-house platform to help us find, reach-out to and invest in early-stage European startups, regardless of the city or country they’re based in.

We are looking for a back-end developer to continue the development of InReach’s data services. This involves:

• Cleaning / wrangling / merging / processing the data on companies and founders from across Europe

• Building data pipelines with the Machine Learning engineers

• Building APIs to support front-end investment product used by the Investment team (named DIG)

This role will involve working across the stack. From DevOps (Terraform) to web scraping and Machine Learning (Python) all the way to data pipelines and web-services (Java) and getting stuck into the front-end (Javascript). It’s a great opportunity to hone your skills and master some new ones.

It is important to us that candidates be passionate about helping entrepreneurs and startups. This is our bread-and-butter and we want you to be involved.

InReach is a remote-first employer and we are looking to this hire to help us become an exceptional place to work for remote employees. Whether you are in the office or remote, we are looking for people with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Background Reading:

• InReach Ventures, the ‘AI-powered’ European VC, closes new €53M fund

• The Full-Stack Venture Capital

• Roberto Bonanzinga starts InReach Ventures with DIG platform

• Exceptional Communication Guidelines

Responsibilities

• Creatively and quickly coming up with effective solutions to undefined problems

• Choosing technology that is modern but not hype-driven

• Developing features and tests quickly with good, clean code

• Being part of the wider development team, reviewing code and participating in architecture from across the stack

• Communicating exceptionally, both asynchronously (written) and synchronously (spoken)

• Helping to shape InReach as a remote-first organization

Technologies

Given that this position touches so much of the stack, it will be difficult for a candidate that only has experience in Python or only in Java to be successful in being effective quickly. While we expect the candidate to be stronger in one or the other, some professional exposure is required.

In addition to the programming skills and the ability to write well designed and tested code, infrastructure within modern cloud platforms and sound architectural reasoning are expected.

None of these are a prerequisite, but help:

• Functional Programming

• Reactive Streams (RxJava2)

• Terraform

• Postgres

• ElasticSearch

• SQS

• Dynamodb

• AWS Lambda

• Docker

• Dropwizard

• Maven

• Pipenv

• Javascript

• React

• NodeJS

Interview Process

• 15m video chat with Ben, CTO to find out more about InReach and the role

• 2h data pipeline technical test (Python)

• 2h web service technical test (Java)

• 30m architectural discussion with Ben, talking through the work you did

• 2h interview with the different team members from across InReach. We’re a small company so it’s important we see how we’ll all work together - not just the tech team!

Salary

$55,000 — $70,000

Location

UK or Italy