Hiring Staff Backend Engineer - Savings @ Lumos

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously said, “Software is eating the world.” 10+ years later, software hasn’t just nibbled, it has indulged in a lavish ten-course feast at a Michelin star restaurant. From Slack to Zoom to Figma, software is embedded in every company’s DNA. And while most just get to enjoy the benefits, there is one unsung hero behind it all: 🦸‍♀️ IT 🦸‍♀️

While being flooded with never ending IT tickets, they are also making sure Guy Fieri in Sales doesn’t buy yet another tool “promising” a 103% lead conversion rate. And burying themselves in spreadsheets to prepare the SOC2 report for when Gordon Ramsey from the Big 4 comes knocking. And can’t forget about Julia Child, the newest on-call engineer, who needs access to prod DB to investigate an incident. All of these workstreams are among spreadsheets, emails, Slack messages, and Zoom calls. But those days are numbered.

✨ Let there be Lumos ✨

Lumos is building the first AppHQ for companies. In essence, we are creating the meta app, the source-of-truth for companies to manage all their apps.

Why Lumos?

• 🚀 Rocketship Growth: In less than two years, our team has grown from 20 to ~80 brilliant minds across Canada, the United States and South America. Our customer base has more than 10x’d with some pretty incredible names like SiriusXM, GitHub, and Intercom.
• 📈 Backed by Industry Leaders: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has backed us since the beginning. We have a team of trusted advisors including Joel De La Garza (partner at a16z and previous Chief Security Officer at Box) and Leland Maschmeyer (the design thinker behind Spotify and Microsoft)
• ⭐ Grow with us: You have the chance to be one of the first 100 people at Lumos. At Lumos, you will build your function from the ground up, get exposure to different aspects of the business developing a diverse skill set, and most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to pave your own path.

We are rewriting the IT playbook, one that better reflects our software eaten world.

The Savings team at Lumos is building a Spend Management Platform - a 360 view of SaaS spend. Think of your personal finance app, but for businesses. Our mission is to maximize our customers’ ROI on SaaS investments 💸.

Lumos has unique potential in this space due to our platform approach - our App Store and Access Review products allow us to link access and usage to spend data, empowering customers to make effective, data-driven decisions.

The Savings team tackles a lot of interesting problems related to automating document transcription with state of the art LLMs, modeling complex finance related schema, and matching together spend orders (e.g. contracts) and actuals (e.g. invoices, expenses). We are looking for a highly motivated staff engineer who can help build the foundation for the future of our Spend Management Platform 🏗️. This is a leadership position within the engineering organization.

✨ Your Responsibilities

• Take ownership of our core architecture and data models for spend management.
• Design robust data pipelines to power our spend management products.
• Implement automation (via fine-tuned and foundational models) to ingest spend data from pdfs.
• Own our regression testing strategy for our AI interfaces.
• Define and iterate on our north star architecture, partnering with our foundations and product platform teams.
• Uplevel the team by setting technical best practices and mentoring engineers.

💰Pay Range

$185,000 - $240,000. Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.

🙌 What We Value

We care much more about your motivation and excitement to grow into the role than we care just about your CV. Instead of focusing on what people need to have, we focus on what people need to do. Additionally, we try to find out whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on our values that define how we achieve outcomes and what characteristics we value.

We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. 🤲

💸 Benefits and Perks:

• 💯 Remote work culture (+/-4 hours Pacific Time)
• ⛑ Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage covered by Lumos
• 🛩 Company and team bonding trips throughout the year fully covered by Lumos
• 💻 Optimal WFH setup to set you up for success
• 🌴 Unlimited PTO, with minimum time off to make sure you are rested and able to be at your best
• 👶🏽 Up to (4) months off for both the Birthing & Non-birthing parent
• 💰 Wellness stipend to keep you awesome and healthy
• 🏦 401k contribution plan