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Careers at 3spread

We've had a number of people reach out about working with us. We're not actively hiring yet, but rather than answer the same questions piecemeal, we've put this page together as a reference: what we're building, the kind of people we want to find when the time comes, and how to get in touch in the meantime.

What we're building

3spread is a small team building a financial data platform that turns SEC filings into structured, machine-readable data delivered via API. In development since late 2024 and currently in early access, we own every layer of the stack. The SEC is our starting point. As we expand into other public data ecosystems and our customer base grows, the team will grow to match.

Who we'd want to hear from

People with real experience on either side of the work.

Engineering & Product

  • Structured extraction from messy real-world sources

    XBRL is a familiar reference point, but the work extends to any domain where the source data is inconsistent, undocumented, or actively hostile to parsing. Deep familiarity with SEC infrastructure (or any other public data infrastructure) and its many quirks is a strong plus, since we'll grow well beyond the SEC over time.

  • End-to-end ETL where there's no real documentation to lean on

    The SEC has docs, but they're thin, the filers don't follow them, and the work is mostly about untangling broken data systems and shaping them into something useful. The skill that matters is building a reliable pipeline when the source itself is fighting you, across sources well beyond just the SEC.

  • Fundamental equity research, accounting, or financial analysis backgrounds

    You've felt the pain of existing data vendors firsthand and have opinions about what should exist instead.

  • Full-stack systems work

    We own the full stack: ingestion, storage, application services, access control, and networking. Controlling scaling, location, cost, and efficiency at every layer matters more than ceding those decisions to vendors. People who've built and operated systems at depth will recognize the trade-offs.

Sales

  • Selling data, API, or developer-facing products

    The product is specialized and our customer base will span multiple segments. Experience selling sophisticated data or technical products to demanding buyers is what matters, regardless of vertical.

  • Comfort with technical buyers

    Engineering leads, data heads, research teams, and product owners will pick the product apart before signing anything. The right rep is fluent enough to handle those conversations without needing a sales engineer for every call.

  • Range across deal motions

    Both larger consultative deals with multi-stakeholder buying committees and faster, lighter-touch conversions with smaller customers. The rep who fits here moves naturally across that spectrum rather than being locked into one motion.

  • Early-stage seller instincts

    You'd be writing the first version of the playbook, not executing one we've already built: sharpening positioning, defining qualifying criteria, and feeding what you learn from real deals back into the product.

If you've done one of these at depth, we'd like to know you exist, even if the timing isn't right for either of us yet.

What the work actually looks like

Small team. Meetings exist to keep different people's work aligned, not as status reporting or overhead. Most projects sit with one person end-to-end, including the architectural decisions that go with them, though some work is genuinely cross-cutting and happens as a team. Ownership comes with accountability: specs are agreed up front and the work is checked against them.

This will fit you if you

  • Care deeply about precision
  • Want end-to-end technical ownership
  • Comfortable making architectural calls under real constraints
  • Energized by greenfield, not waiting for process

What we can't offer yet

  • A structured career ladder
  • A formal onboarding program
  • Clean role boundaries
  • Volume over correctness

None of that exists here yet, and won't for a while.

How we're built

We work hard to maintain full control of our system: infrastructure, costs, dependencies, where data lives, how it moves. That discipline is what's let us keep our cost structure low enough that we haven't needed to raise outside capital, and it's part of why we move quickly. It also shapes how we think about hiring: deliberately, and only where the work genuinely needs it.

Getting in touch

Email is the best way: team@3spread.com. Tell us what you've worked on, what caught your eye about what we're building, and the kind of work you're looking for next. If there's a fit, we'll keep you in mind and reach out when we start hiring in earnest.

team@3spread.com