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LEVEL 01The briefSay it in plain English.your time · 10 s
senior backend engineer, payments, early-stage⌘↵
ROLEBackend · payments infrastructure
LEVELSenior to staff
SIGNALShipped in the last 90 days
WHERENew York, or remote (US hours)
LEVEL 02The searchA log, not a progress bar.your time · 0 s
searching · 00:00:26
00:00:02Here's how I read that →payments infra
00:00:11Searching 115,402,881 profiles
00:00:3825 people ranked
LEVEL 03The listTwenty-five who would actually leave.your time · 2 min
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Maya Ochoa
Staff engineer · Ramp · NYC
shipped this week91
DA
Devin Aslan
Payments lead · Berlin
actively looking88
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Tom Reyes
Payments, no startup experience
55
LEVEL 04The emailOpens on what they shipped.your time · 0 s
Draft · to Maya Ochoa

SUBJECT — the ledger rewrite

Maya,

You shipped the double-entry ledger rewrite at Ramp in March. Your write-up is the shape of what we're building.

Nine people, pre-Series-A, payments is the whole product. Worth twenty minutes?

LEVEL 05The replyDrafted in your voice. Waits for you.your time · 0 s
Replies · your inbox
Maya Ochoainterested2h

Not looking, but I'd talk about the ledger work. Thursday?

Devin Aslancall bookedyesterday

First cold email in a year that read like a person wrote it.

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