Kash (YC S14) is hiring engineers to kill the evil credit card giants

Our Mission:

Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment ‘innovation’ since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. Forcing credit card debt on families, charging massive fees, and hurting local retailers. It is frequently the case that credit card industry makes way more money from a retail store than the store’s owners themselves do.

At Kash, we are on a mission to end the credit card monopoly and to replace it with an ethical payment option - one that helps retailers and one that consumers love.

Come chat with us if this sounds like a worthy cause. Show us what you’ve built in the past and what you’re passionate about.

Kash is a YCombinator company.

What We’re Working On:

• Store owners use our iOS app to charge customers
• People use our iOS & Android app to pay
• Server backend (we use node.js and PostgreSQL)
• Cryptographic Security and Cloud Infrastructure (Unix)
• Frontend development for use by retailers (We’ve used Angular.js in the past, but could be anything)

What We’re Looking For:

• We want people who believe in our mission. You do not take down a giant by doing things half-heartedly.
• We believe the most important skill is your ability to learn
• You should have either built an Android app or iOS app before even if it’s a simple one
• Ability to take ownership of things, learn what’s necessary and get things done
• Ability to communicate well, ask clarifying questions, ask for help early and not get stuck

Bonus Points:

• Understands a store’s pain having worked in retail or have known someone that worked in retail
• Shipped quality mobile apps before
• Experience utilizing tests to help you speed up development and its quality
• Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management
• Previous startup experience

Why You Should Join Us:

• Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup
• Work on something that will really change the world
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Flat org chart
• Solve difficult yet interesting problems
• State of the art equipment for your work station

Location:

Kash is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Waterloo, Canada. This position is in San Francisco.