Engineering · Full-time · NY, United States of America
We exist to make investing in the private markets as easy as Robinhood did for public stocks. More and more people invest in private equity and venture capital every day. Even though this asset class has been around for decades, it wasn't built to handle this volume of investors. Signing up for Robinhood? It takes two minutes. Investing in a VC fund? You've got to fill out a 200-question questionnaire each time that you make an investment. The forms aren't standardized and not every question applies to every investor. Investors miss questions or answer the wrong ones and then have to redo the entire thing.
We built a TurboTax-style workflow for investors to only see the questions that matter to them and see every question that matters to them to make fund closing (i.e. the process of investing into a VC fund) easy. Our world record document completion time is two minutes.
That may sound boring but we've processed billions of dollars for thousands of investors. And by having an investor run through our workflow, we capture their identity so we can allow them to repurpose it wherever they'd like in the future. We call this an "investor passport" and it's the whole reason we built this business. This is the first fund workflow that we're automating.
Passthrough’s customers and partners include large institutional fund managers, banks, and law firms who have sophisticated requirements. In order to work with them, we need to embody security, IT, and compliance excellence.
We have big goals and limited time and resources. You will need to help empower the engineering team to be more productive.
We’ve already helped our customers raise billions of dollars and with your help we will increase that to trillions. Our customers are counting on us to safeguard their most sensitive information and help them raise money in a usually time sensitive process. As such, it’s crucial that we be secure and reliable.
This role will be in-office 2 days a week on average.
The tentative roadmap for the first year is as follows. We will work together to figure out the details but at a high level these are our priorities for the first year, with each project taking roughly a quarter.
Projects:
ISO Audit
Automate compliance and IT
IaC
Improve engineering productivity
The engineering team is currently a close-knit group of 6 that are a mix of NYC-based and remote. We know how to build engineering, product, and revenue generating businesses in this space. We’re fast paced and highly collaborative. Engineering plays a critical role in product decisions and works closely with the founders and all departments. We work in 2 week-long sprints, where we decide which projects the team should focus on and which projects we personally would like to work on. This gives us all autonomy to direct our day-to-day tasks in addition to our larger career goals.
Required
Desired
We go through the same interview steps for all engineers to ensure equity in our hiring process. All roles also require a background check.
Our process is designed to learn as much about each candidate as possible, as well as to give candidates access to our team and learn about what it's like to work at Passthrough.
*Please note that while this position offers a hybrid schedule, the first week of onboarding will be conducted in person in New York City.