Harvest is a pre-seed startup building a comprehensive platform to help small business owners exit their businesses. Owners of small and medium-sized businesses assets collectively worth $4 trillion will retire in the USA during the next two decades. Today only 40% manage to sell, prices often fall short of expectations and owners struggle to protect employees, customers and their legacies. Harvest is building the tools and support to enable successful exits. We have a clear plan of how to fix the market for buying and selling SMBs. We have demonstrated early traction in securing channel partners, helped in part by our outstanding network of advisors and investors.
Our CEO, Adam Carley, has a personal connection to the challenges faced by small business owners, as the child of an SMB owner who is yet to sell and retire. Adam spent the last 10 years leading product at two start-ups that exited for $100 million and $400 million and previously worked at McKinsey & Company. Harvest is backed by 25madison, an experienced venture investor and studio founded by executives from Softbank, Goldman Sachs and more. Harvest also has an experienced team of advisors with extensive expertise and reputations in SMB exits.
The opportunity
As the founding engineer, you will play a key role in shaping our early product. You will be part of a collaborative team comprised of Harvest's CEO, CTO, product designer, our 25madison partners, and our senior advisors, that determines the design and functionality of the product. You will play a key role in selecting the technology stack, defining the technical architecture, leading development, and managing the product in production. You will work closely with early customers and channel partners, incorporating their feedback to improve the product and ensure that we fit with their existing ways of working (e.g., standards, policies, compliance). You will help recruit future engineering hires and help establish our engineering culture.
The ideal candidate will have the desire and ability to collaborate on the direction of the product and the strategy of the company overall. You will take responsibility for every aspect of how the product functions, while working closely with colleagues and customers. You will be excited to build a product from the ground up and be comfortable taking on a variety of tasks as needed. You'll thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, making pragmatic decisions and iterating until we get it right. You'll make efficient use of design and development resources provided by our 25madison partners. You will be comfortable talking with investors and customers, leading discussions about your domain.
Looking back on your first 12 months at Harvest, you will have…
Become a core part of the founding team that is defining the vision and strategy for the business.
Delivered early versions of the Harvest platform and achieved great traction with anchor customers.
Worked extensively with our early customers and developed a deep understanding of their needs
Developed a strong perspective on how our platform will be built and the critical technologies that we need to master, including relevant vendors and integration partners.
Created a compelling plan for building out the platform and achieved buy-in from your colleagues, investors and advisors.
What you bring to Harvest:
Strong backend engineering skills with 5+ years of experience. Comfortable working on the full stack in the early phase of the business.
Desire and ability to be a “product engineer” with a passion for using technology to solve user problems and create exceptional experiences. For Harvest, that includes willingness to own the details of interpreting financial data and performing calculations.
Eagerness to interact with customers and possessing the people skills to do so.
Early-stage product experience building from 0 to 1. Experience and comfort working in early-stage start-ups is desirable.
Ability to deliver quickly and iteratively, using a flexible and pragmatic approach. You'll leverage pre-existing building blocks when it makes sense. You're disciplined but not bureaucratic.
Ideal domain experience includes: working with APIs from companies such as Plaid, MX, Yodlee, Spade, Rutter, Codat, Railz or Quickbooks; FDX APIs in general; manipulating financial and accounting data; building analytics applications; fintech in general.
Additional :
Individuals of all genders, race, sexual orientation, nationality, ability, veteran status, and educational background are strongly encouraged to apply. A t this time, we do not sponsor applicants for work visas.