Job Description

**Please only apply for the engineering role you consider yourself the best
fit for. Applications for multiple roles will only be considered for the most
junior role.**

**Due to frequent confusion, we are NOT a newly founded startup and this is
NOT a position for a first engineer to help build an MVP. Our products are
live and we pay our salaries with revenues. This is an opening for a strong
engineer who can also deliver exceptional results in non-technical domains,
working in a founder-like capacity. TC is over 400K USD per year, and the
right applicant should have compelling experience that justifies they can
personally deliver significantly more business value than that in their first
year with us. If this isn 't you, please consider our other roles.**

**What is Bizwise?**

Bizwise is a product-based suite of tools for anyone to start and run a small
business on a day to day basis. We help customers gain an online presence
using our automated website generator and visual website editor, bring their
business to the information age by setting them up with GSuite, expanding
their customer base with an e-commerce solutions, and more.

We're a fast-paced venture-backed startup backed by top VCs like Sequoia
Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. If you want the opportunity to work hard and
be part of something great, you'll fit right in. If you want a chill 9-5 that
you don't need to think too hard about, please don't apply.

**Founding Engineer Requirements**

In addition to all of the standard engineering expectations, founding
engineers are responsible for the driving forward the success of the
**company** in a qualitatively similar way as founders. You will be
responsible not only for the success of your own projects, but in identifying
the highest impact projects in the first place, and helping do the same for
other engineers. You will also participate in long-term planning with
founders, and are expected to understand the business model, product vision,
strategic landscape, and technology well enough to provide materially useful
insights.

This role is a great opportunity for former founders or staff engineers who
want to join an up-and-coming start-up with top-tier backers and a nine-figure
valuation... that has taken extremely little dilution and pays the majority of
its salaries with revenues.

**Standard Engineering Description**

You'll have the opportunity to work on all parts of the system, including the
front end, back end, and production engineering. All engineers should be
competent in both React and Node in order to lead full-stack projects, but
working on production engineering is optional. Additionally, we have
significant non-trivial integrations with LLMs (not simple RAG chatbots),
which create very interesting technical challenges.

At Bizwise, all technical employees write significant amounts of code
regardless of their level of seniority (including the CTO). If you just want
to write architecture documents and project plans, this isn't the place for
you. But if you want to personally build something that makes a genuine
difference for small businesses across North America, we'd love to have you.

As a weak filter against bots in the current era of AI spam, please write "I
actually read the job description" in your application message and confirm you
understand that we're a fast-paced start-up and that's what you're looking
for.

All engineers report directly to the CTO. All engineers will be expected to
write production-quality code, collaborate with other organizations, host
project meetings (as needed), and participate in regularly scheduled one-on-
ones and team meetings. Additionally, senior engineers will be expected to
lead project planning, drive their projects to completion, and mentor mid-
level engineers.

**What to Expect**

* A fast-paced start-up environment. Founding engineers are expected to put in 50-60 hours of serious work per week
* Working remotely from anywhere in the world is fine, as long as you're responsive and available for meetings within North American business hours