Backend Product Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build new features and internal APIs for wholesale suppliers and buyers
• Work across the stack and collaborate closely with sales, support, and customers
• Shape product direction through active participation in product conversations
• Navigate product and technical tradeoffs to maximize customer value
• Iterate quickly on experiments and build sustainable long-term systems
• Contribute to company building, culture, and team practices

Requirements

• First-principles curiosity and drive to understand how things work
• Deep product thinking with strong user empathy
• Craftsmanship in engineering and attention to implementation details
• Ability to rapidly build intuition in new business domains
• Strong estimation, prioritization, and rapid validation skills
• Data-informed approach to understanding user behavior
• End-to-end ownership of work and proactive communication
• Excellent collaboration with cross-functional, non-engineering teammates

About the Company

Wholesail is an early-stage startup building software to connect wholesalers and buyers by automating invoicing and payments in the $5 trillion wholesale trade industry. Its initial focus is the highly fragmented US food distribution market. Founded by a team whose prior startups were acquired by OpenTable, the company is backed by VCs and angels from Stripe, Square, Dropbox, Yelp, OpenTable, and Everlane. The tech stack includes Java services running on Kubernetes (GKE) with PostgreSQL, a React Native frontend, and integrations with Plaid, Stripe, Modern Treasury, and QuickBooks.