Senior Software Engineer

The Tight HQ is in Washington, DC, in the eclectic Adams Morgan neighborhood. Our team members are in the office 5 days a week, and we're looking to bring on a senior engineering teammate who embraces the opportunity to collaborate with teammates in our AdMo-based HQ.

Many financial technology (FinTech) companies are building products that leverage Tight Embedded Accounting APIs and SDKs; over 1.2M users are leveraging said products. Tight's team aids these FinTechs in how to leverage our APIs and SDKs to build these products.

We're looking for an enthusiastic, quick, and passionate engineer who is (or is interested in becoming) an expert at:

Front-end (React/Javascript/Typescript) and/or Back-end (Java/PostgreSQL) development and/or DevOps

API development and documentation (see

Leading engineering teams on a project-by-project basis

Mentoring less-experienced engineers, all of whom come from top institutions with top GPAs and internships

Developing tools to further evangelize Tight's API and SDK

The following qualifications should help build confidence in the ability to grow into the above responsibilities:

3+ years of experience as a software engineer working in production

Proven background reading and utilizing API documentation/reference

Passion to teach/help developers to build products and/or lead teams

Experience performing QA

Experience working on B2B products

BS in Computer Science

Importantly, at Tight, we are looking to utilize your existing skills to scale up our Engineering efforts, and then the sky's the limit responsibility/growth wise based on where your skill development and interests lead.