Software Engineer, Investments Team

At Iterative, our mission is to boost the GDP of Southeast Asia through entrepreneurship. As part of our work, we invest in numerous entrepreneurs and are constantly making important decisions at a fast pace. Scaling processes can be quite challenging. We are currently seeking a tech-savvy Automation Engineer who can work magic with automation and take our team's workflow to the next level. Don't worry, you won't be alone in this journey, as you will report directly to Cathy. This opportunity is perfect for someone who is a Builder and has a talent for building and streamlining operations seamlessly.

What you’ll do:

• Enable an efficient investment and portfolio management process that keeps to Iterative SLAs by building relevant (no-code) tools, automations, interfaces and infrastructure

• Identify opportunities for automation; collaborate with team members to build no-code or lite-code solutions to complex workflows

• Own and optimize our investments and portfolio tech stack (Airtable, Zapier, Sendgrid, portfolio management platform)

• Monitor and optimize automated solutions, updating and deprecating features when necessary

• Enrich, store and analyze Iterative’s rich data bank of applications and portfolio companies

• Collaborate with investments and portfolio team to ideate and build useful data pipelines and analysis tools

• Prototype and test larger standalone projects like due diligence co-pilot

• Stay up-to-date with emerging no-code, automation and data analysis technologies and best practices, keeping in mind how we can leverage such technologies for the Iterative team

We have a wishlist of projects that we would love for someone like you to undertake:

• Investment Funnel Operations Automation – Automate all manual tasks in current investment funnel operations (checking when calls are scheduled; following up with founders who have not scheduled calls within SLA timelines; load-balancing final interviews; surfacing repeat applications)

• Portfolio Data Enrichment and Analysis – Ingest all portfolio data from all sources (Fundwave surveys; email updates; recorded meetings with founders) and keep updated view on key metrics for portfolio companies. Analyze our rich data store for other firm purposes - e.g. a) internal market research b) pro rata decisions c) valuation benchmarking for external deals in the same segment

• Application Pipeline Stats – Build an automated interface to check key application pipeline stats like time to interview, graduation rates, and other key data points

• Ideate and prototype larger standalone projects such as App Review Co-Pilot (ingest application data and produce an automated score)

Who You Are:

• Proven Experience – You have a proven track record of building and automating using no-code/low-code tools. It is likely that you have a background in Computer Science, but it’s not a must.

• Tech Expertise – Experience with tools such as Zapier, Airtable and Sendgrid are essential. No-code skillset is a must; data science skillset is a nice-to-have but should have basic fundamentals

• Team Player – Ability to work and collaborate cross-functionally as you will be working on projects spanning investments and portfolio

• Problem Solver – You are passionate about delving deep to identify problems and coming up with creative solutions to increase efficiency and impact via automation and tooling.

• Analytical – You are deeply analytical and comfortable understanding and manipulating data to gain and take action on business insights.

• Growth Mindset – You have a growth mindset. Meaning you can and will learn whatever you need to get the job done. You’re comfortable stretching your existing skills or learning completely new ones.

• Communication – You have strong communication skills whether verbal, written, or in presentations.

About Iterative

Iterative is an accelerator that invests exclusively in startups in Southeast Asia. Founded in March 2020 by Hsu Ken Ooi and Brian Ma, Iterative has raised $65M across 2 funds, invested in 65+ companies, 120+ founders and the total value of Iterative companies is now worth $1.2 billion.

Our investors include Cendana, K5 Global, Village Global, Goodwater Capital with participation from a large network of Silicon Valley founders and execs including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Achmad Zaky (Bukalapak), Andrew Chen (General partner a16z, Uber), Qasar Younis (Former COO YC, Applied Intuition), David Shim (Foursquare), Kum Hong Siew (Head of Airbnb Asia), Moses Lo (Founder, Xendit), and many more.

Iterative, as an organization, has 4 distinct functions and as a result, a team for each function.

1. Recruiting – Find startups for Iterative to invest in

2. Investments – Decide whether Iterative should invest in a startup

3. Iterative Founders – Help the founders Iterative has invested in

4. Support – Make Iterative a first class organization

Iterative is currently a team of 14 and growing quickly across each of these teams.

Vision

Increase the GDP of Southeast Asia through entrepreneurship.

Values

These are the Iterative values. They’re not for everyone but if they speak to you, you might be just what we’re looking for.

1. Iterate or Die – We take this literally. Ship early, get continuous feedback, and boldly experiment. If not the organization will die.

2. Empathy is Our Competitive Advantage – Our success depends on our ability to empathize with other people in the organization and the community.

3. Be Realistically Ambitious – The best strategy for making a big impact is to be realistic, have a plan and be ambitious.

4. Responsibility is a Privilege, Not a Right – Being part of Iterative means being given responsibility for a part of our business. Be a good steward of that responsibility by being accountable, diligent and open-minded.