Backend Product Engineer

<h2><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">⛵️ About Wholesail</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wholesail</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an early stage startup that builds software to connect wholesalers and their buyers by automating and digitizing invoicing and payment in the $5 trillion wholesale trade industry. The company’s first product is an electronic invoicing and payment portal for wholesale sellers, which allows them to get paid faster and decrease losses. For buyers, Wholesail automates the accounts payable & expense management process to save them time and money. Wholesail’s initial industry focus is to build a network effect driven payment business in the highly fragmented $1 trillion US food distribution market, in which </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">invoicing and payment is nearly entirely paper-driven today</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wholesail was founded by a team of engineers, product managers, and designers whose prior startups were acquired by OpenTable, and the company is well funded with backing from a half dozen VCs and 20+ angel investors including early executives and team members from Stripe, Square, Dropbox, Yelp, OpenTable and Everlane.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Are you fascinated by how people use products, actively seek to understand the “why” behind product decisions, and approach product building as a craft? Are you passionate about working with other experienced engineers who have a passion for their craft? We'd love to have you join our voyage as a founding member of our product engineering team.  </span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">🛠 About the Role</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As an early engineer, you’ll build new features and internal APIs to create value for the suppliers and buyers on our network. Your work will skew towards backend development, but you'll end up working up and down the stack and you’ll spend a lot of time with our sales and support team a