About Light

At Light, we’re on a mission to replace the ERP. Traditional systems are slow, painful to implement, and built for factories — not modern companies. Our Smart Financial Platform (SFP) is built for today’s global, service-based businesses, automating accounting, reporting, and financial flows with speed and simplicity.

In just a short time, we’ve gone from idea to powering operations for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. We build with our customers, ship at high velocity, and obsess over making finance software that people actually love to use.

You’re joining an early-stage company defining a new software category, backed by top investors including Balderton, Atomico, Cherry Ventures, Seedcamp, and Entrée Capital. Our advisory board includes the former CTO of Workday Financials, the Chief Architect of SAP S/4HANA along with EY and Oracle SVPs.

At Light, you’ll work with exceptional people, build category-defining products, and have the freedom to shape something truly transformative.

This Backend Engineer role

• Building our core Smart Financial Platform further that helps multinational companies manage all of their accounting with AI and a great UX.

• Keeping focus on customer needs while implementing robust and scalable technical solutions.

• Developing and optimizing backend services, APIs, and infrastructure to support our high-performance frontend applications.
  
  

Your qualifications could be

• 4+ years of experience building robust backend systems with solid understanding of server-side architecture and API design.

• Strong command of backend programming languages, with the ability to write clean, efficient code.

• Proficient in OO programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, etc.

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and DB schemas that scale.

• Deeply care about quality - you actively participate in code reviews, write comprehensive unit and integration tests, and thoroughly QA your work.

• Great communicator who collaborates effectively with frontend engineers on API design and cross-functional teams on system architecture.

• You can commit and ship production-ready code that is secure, scalable, performant, and maintains well.
  
  

Bonus points:

• Experience with accounting or companies' finance flows (accounts payable, invoicing, payments etc).

• Building AI-naitive robust and scalable applications.

• Experience with JVM, Postgres, AWS tech stack.

• You've been thriving in high-growth startups.
  
  

Our Tech Stack:

• Hosted on AWS

• Postgres DB

• Kotlin Monolith

• React Frontend
  
  

What to expect in our hiring process

1. Short chat with our Chief of Staff

2. Take-home challenge

3. Interview with two future colleagues

   1. Discussion on the take-home challenge

   2. Getting to know each other

4. CTO Interview

5. Offer
   
   

A few tips to stand out

• Show us who you are through your application and don't limit yourself to a resume.

• Try not to be generic. Have numbers to show so you can measure impact? Even better!

• Most people can say they wanna work in a startup, but why this one? What are your expectations and what do you specifically wanna learn from us?
  
  

The good stuff

In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

💸 A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing start-up.
🍼 Paid parental leave.
🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based.
🥳 Regular socials and company off-sites (last time was Southern France and next time is in October).
🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you'll help shape a market-defining product.

The famous last words

Working at Light means you're embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we've built something like this before - and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

If you are passionate, have absurdly high ambitions, want to ship fast and have fun, then we would love to hear from you at careers@light.inc.

Join the rocket ship while it's taking off 🚀