About Us
Black Ore is building the leading AI platform for financial services. By combining LLMs, proprietary AI/ML and automation we accelerate core workflows for the industry, allow financial services professionals to be more productive and enable consumers to enhance their personal finance. Our flagship product, Tax Autopilot, combines AI with federal and state tax codes & regulations to simplify the tax preparation and review process for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and accounting firms.
Founded in 2022, we launched with $60 million in early stage funding from some of the world’s leading investors including a16z, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Trust Ventures and leading tech founders/angel investors including Jason Gardner (Founder and CEO of Marqeta), Max Levchin (Founder of Paypal and Affirm), Tom Glocer (Former CEO of Thomson Reuters), Gokul Rajaram, and Mark Britto (EVP, CPO, PayPal).
Our team has an incredibly ambitious vision to completely transform the way businesses and consumers interact in financial services. We’re looking to hire strong team members to grow the team. Some of the traits we look for are:
- Owner Mentality - Desire to take initiative, identify problems and implement solutions
- Mission Driven - Passion for building AI/ML solutions that reimagine how businesses and consumers operate
- Intellectually Curious - Excitement going deep and building detailed understanding of the function, role, customer and problem space
- Team Oriented - Ability to collaborate respectfully and put the team above the self
The Role
You will be joining a group of talented, experienced engineers with successful track records building and scaling products / companies from idea to pre-IPO and beyond. As a member of the Back-End team, you will work with other engineers and data professionals to heavily impact our core products and data infrastructure and delivery of our solutions. You will be responsible for building our core AI infrastructure, scaling and optimizing our products, building APIs, supporting AI/ML Ops and deploying software components from the ground up to production. You will be expected to be able to work independently and with your team to deliver solutions successfully, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
Basic Qualifications
- Willingness to work hard and drive objectives to completion autonomously
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud technologies
- 5+ years software design & development experience in one or more programming languages
- 2+ years experience & in-depth knowledge in core Java
- Solid understanding & experience with all aspects of software development life cycle
- Strong background and experience in data structures & algorithms
- Strong background and experience in Java performance optimizations
- Strong problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
- High attention to detail
- SQL & NoSQL databases, MongoDB in particular
- Background in AI/ML
- Python
What We Offer (for U.S. Based Employees)
- Competitive salary and equity based compensation
- Employer-paid medical, dental and vision insurance
- Ability to define your own success
- Continuous learning and new challenges to master