API Engineer

Who we are:

Vic.ai has been pioneering the use of AI to digitally transform accounting and finance processes to improve productivity, decision-making, and ROI for more than six years. Vic.ai addresses the most manual and inefficient task in accounting – invoice processing – to improve its speed and scalability, ultimately enabling customers to reinvent their accounts payable operations and improve financial management. By processing over half a billion invoices with up to 99% accuracy, Vic.ai has helped 10,000+ customers achieve nearly $188 million in cost savings and 6 million hours in time savings.

We’re a Series C-funded company and are fortunate to have some renowned investors and partners: Costanoa Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, GGV Capital, and ICONIQ Capital.

We invite you to check out our blog posts over the past year! Follow this link to our site. 

Role: API Engineer

Vic.ai is a rapidly growing AI-based SaaS platform for finance teams, and we are seeking a highly skilled API Engineer to join our team. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance APIs that help power Vic.ai‘s AI-driven platform. You will work alongside an experienced engineering team to deliver scalable solutions in a dynamic and innovative environment.

What you’ll do:

• Develop performant, well-monitored, and well-tested APIs to support Vic.ai’s platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product and engineering, to design efficient data flows and integration solutions.
• Implement and maintain automated tests across the stack, ensuring a high level of reliability and correctness.
• Spin up and maintain server environments, ensuring robust deployment flows and continuous integration.
• Design and establish validation, testing, and resilience best practices within the engineering team.
• Communicate effectively with internal teams and external partners to drive successful API integrations, particularly with financial ERP platforms.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in API development and cloud architecture.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of commercial software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Elixir programming, with openness to other languages.
• Proven ability to design high-performance APIs, particularly in REST and GraphQL.
• Experience working in Linux environments, with a solid grasp of shell scripting and server setup.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and key-value stores.
• Familiarity with iPaaS platforms like Boomi, Workato, and Merge.Dev.
• Proficiency in designing robust concurrent background job systems and understanding of concurrency patterns.
• Strong knowledge of BEAM performance tuning.
• Ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, with internal teams and external partners.

What you’ll get in return:

Vic.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. At Vic.ai, we value humility and authenticity and we encourage our employees to bring their original, best selves to work.

As a team member, you will receive:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• 401K with an employer match
• Health/vision/dental (including 2 health insurance coverage options that are 100% free for the employee AND family)
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• CitiBike membership
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• The opportunity to work remotely, including a stipend for your home workstation setup
• Monthly allowance for Office Space (We Work or similar)
• Virtual team-building events & awesome swag
• People-focused culture
• Generous vacation time, family and travel-friendly environment
• Work alongside an enthusiastic, collegial, and driven team in a highly meritocratic environment
• Vic.ai also offers in-person retreats to employees. We love connecting in person as a remote-first company.