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title: 'Growth Engineer at Middesk'
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# Growth Engineer at Middesk

- **Company:** Middesk
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/middesk/73212294-da1e-4b58-8e2f-bd807f1b8eff

## Job description

About Middesk: Middesk is building the data and intelligence infrastructure that helps businesses work together with confidence. We started by creating a comprehensive platform for understanding businesses, bringing together authoritative and proprietary data to help customers verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and manage risk throughout the customer lifecycle. Today, Middesk is used by more than 700 banks and fintechs, and in 2025 we verified more than 7 million companies. We've also expanded beyond business verification to help companies form, register, manage, and maintain their businesses, supporting more than 50,000 companies in setting up over 100,000 accounts required to hire employees, run payroll, and stay compliant. Middesk came out of Y Combinator, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi. We're proud to be named on the Forbes Fintech 50 and Best Startup Employers lists.

About Middesk Engineering: We believe "velocity" is the rate at which we effect realized value for our customers, not the rate at which we ship code. And this pushes us to center our work around customers; how will this change I'm about to make help our customers get jobs done? When we’re coding, we're making hundreds of micro-decisions about user experience that add up. How can I communicate this exception to our customers in a manner that helps them understand what's happened and unblock themselves?

About The Role: We're hiring our first-ever Growth Engineer to join a small engineering pod that works directly with Marketing and GTM to bring more of the right customers to Middesk and help existing customers get more out of the platform. You'll ship features across the acquisition and expansion funnel - in-product trials, self-service onboarding, the [middesk.com](http://middesk.com) rebuild, expansion signal automation- instrument them, and use the results to decide what's next. Every project has a number attached to it.

What You'll Do:

- Ship features in the Middesk dashboard that let customers discover and trial new products in context, such as trial credits, side-by-side proof points, and in-product case studies that show the lift a product would deliver on the customer's own data.
- Build and improve self-service onboarding so that smaller businesses can sign up, get value, and convert without a sales touch.
- Own the engineering behind the [middesk.com](http://middesk.com) rebuild: site structure, performance, content written for both humans and AI agents, hosted demo environments, and the testing infrastructure that lets Marketing iterate without an engineer in the loop.
- Work day to day with Marketing, Sales, and Account Management to understand what they're seeing in the funnel and turn that into a prioritized backlog.
- Apply Middesk's internal agents to growth problems: account and contact enrichment, content research, topic curation, and funnel analysis.

What We’re Looking For:

- 5+ years shipping production web applications with strong full-stack fundamentals - we run Rails and React.
- Deep comfort operating in ambiguous environments where assumptions and priorities change routinely.
- Strong frontend skills and an eye for user-facing quality.
- Comfort with SQL, analytics, and defining and defending a metric.
- A track record of owning outcomes end to end, including measurement and iteration after launch.
- Strong communication with Marketing, Sales, and other non-engineering partners.
- Startup experience and a hands-on AI tooling workflow.

Nice-To-Have:

- Prior growth engineering, product-led growth, or experimentation experience, including A/B testing frameworks and funnel analytics.
- SEO or AI search (AEO) experience, or experience building marketing sites that serve as a real acquisition channel.
- Fintech, compliance, or identity background where data accuracy matters.
- Former founder or early-stage startup engineer.

## About Middesk

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Middesk is a business identity platform that helps companies verify, onboard, and monitor businesses with confidence, replacing slow manual processes with automated KYB (Know Your Business) and compliance infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $77.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a second office in New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Kyle Mack (CEO) and Sean Higgins (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Business identity verification, Know Your Business (KYB) compliance, fraud prevention, regulatory technology (RegTech), and financial infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B; primarily banks, fintechs, lenders, marketplaces, payroll & compliance platforms, and any company that needs to verify and onboard other businesses.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We’re building the foundation trust runs on.” The company aims to make business identity reliable, transferable, and usable at scale so trust can move faster across the economy.

## Products & Services
- **Middesk Platform (Verification/KYB)**: An automated system that verifies business identity by pulling data from 400+ authoritative sources. It enables auto-approval decisions, reduces manual review, and surfaces fraud signals like synthetic identities and ownership networks.
- **Business Registration**: Helps companies register for payroll taxes and ensure compliance with state and federal requirements.
- **Fraud Prevention**: Detects synthetic identities, maps ownership networks, and surfaces risk before it becomes exposure.
- **Underwriting**: Provides data and insights to support underwriting decisions for lending and financial services.
- **Monitoring**: Ongoing business monitoring to ensure compliance and detect changes in business status.
- **API & Dashboard**: Modular toolkit that integrates directly into onboarding, risk, compliance, and operations workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $77.5M across 3 rounds. Annual revenue estimated at $5.0M (per LinkedIn data).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (backed since 2018), Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners. Also named to the Forbes Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader by Liminal.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Ranked in the top 20% of the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
  - Named a 2025 Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Company.
  - Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2025.
  - 120 employees (+26.5% YoY growth).
  - Over 500 customers across banking, fintech, lending, payments, and marketplaces.
  - Customers see 30% higher auto-approval rates and 60–70% less manual review.
  - Verifies and onboards over 5 million businesses annually.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data moat**: Pulls from 400+ authoritative sources (government agencies, credit bureaus, etc.), creating a comprehensive and accurate business identity dataset.
- **Automation-first**: Designed to handle the majority of verifications automatically, letting human analysts focus only on exceptions. This drives operational leverage for customers.
- **Audit-ready**: Every decision is documented and audit-ready from the start, which is critical for regulated industries.
- **SOC 2 Type II compliant**: Rigorous security controls protecting customer-sensitive data.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers verification, fraud, registration, and monitoring in one system across the customer journey, reducing the need for multiple vendors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the platform**: Continuing to expand the number of data sources and the breadth of business identity intelligence.
- **Deepening regulated industry presence**: Specifically targeting banks, fintechs, lenders, and platforms where compliance and risk management are paramount.
- **Product expansion**: Likely expanding into adjacent areas like enhanced due diligence (EDD), continuous monitoring, and more sophisticated fraud detection.
- **International growth**: While currently US-focused, the platform’s infrastructure could expand to support global business verification.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values transparency, ownership, and momentum. Core values include “Embrace ambition,” “Lead with curiosity,” “Win together,” and “Put customers first.”
- **Work model**: Hybrid — employees are expected to be in the office at least 2 days per week (in San Francisco or New York). The company values in-person collaboration.
- **Perks & benefits**:
  - Equity (stock options) for all full-time employees.
  - 3 months paid parental leave.
  - Annual learning & development budget.
  - Unlimited PTO (with encouragement to actually use it).
  - Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
  - 401(k) plan.
  - Pet-friendly offices with free snacks and drinks.
  - Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
  - Customized development tracks and promotion policies.
- **Engineering culture**: Described as building “high-impact systems” with thoughtful, driven teammates. Roles include Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, Data Scientist, and Lead Data Scientist.
- **Recognition**: Named America’s Best Startup Employers 2025, indicating strong employee satisfaction and company health.

## Sources
1. [middesk.com](https://www.middesk.com/)
2. [middesk.com/careers](https://www.middesk.com/careers)
3. [middesk.com/about](https://www.middesk.com/about)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/middesk)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/middesk)

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