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Products
People
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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$108.5M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$60M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
40
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +38% in a year
Hiring now
22
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Pear VC, Greycroft
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
11/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025 Team of 40 was 29 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Apr 7, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $38.4M · SEC Form D Jan 15, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $7.2M · SEC Form D May 22, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $2.9M · SEC Form D 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.08%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2025 $60M — PYMNTS.com
Venture round Apr 2021 $38.4M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jan 2020 $7.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round May 2019 $2.9M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Cardless, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Scott KazmierowiczExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Michael SpelfogelExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Cardless hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
77 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Cardless scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 77 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 3

Visa details by country

Overview

Build credit in your world.. Grow engagement, revenue, and brand loyalty. All from inside your experience.

News

News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Cardless swipes up $30M to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards
More than a quarter of all U.S. residents use co-branded credit cards to get discounts and other extras from brands they use regularly. But not all is
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News US News & World Report 2 years ago
Here's How Cardless ATMs Work
With cardless or contactless ATMs, you can withdraw money without a plastic card.
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News AOL.com 3 years ago
How To Use and Where To Find Cardless ATMs - AOL
If you've ever arrived at an ATM to withdraw cash only to realize that you don't have your debit card, you might benefit from a cardless ATM. Using a cardless ATM, you can withdraw money with...
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News The Economic Times 4 years ago
ATM UPI : Cardless cash withdrawal soon at all bank branches and ATMs via UPI
The Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday proposed to make cardless cash withdrawal facility available across all banks and ATM networks using Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
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News Lifehacker 7 years ago
Cardless ATMs Are Here, and So Are Cardless ATM Scams
Trying to lighten your load when you leave the house? Leave your hefty wallet at home, and use the power of mobile technology to fill your empty pocke
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News Business Insider 8 years ago
Here are 3 things that make cardless ATMs secure
Cardless ATMs are one of the latest fintech developments to enter our lives. As with any new technological development, there's bound to be some apprehension, especially when it comes to security. The good news is that cardless ATMs are more secure than s
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Cardless over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
SQL33%
Python22%
Java17%
JavaScript6%
Frameworks & libraries
Jackson17%
Next.js6%
React Native6%
React.js6%
Cloud & platforms
Figma17%
Spark11%
Looker6%
Tableau6%
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Full Cardless tech stack 25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$213k
Typical range
$150k – $295k
Open positions
20
16 Jobs
Middle 25%
Senior 25%
Staff 31.3%
Architect 18.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 4 $188k $160k – $215k
Senior 4 $223k $210k – $275k
Staff 5 $250k $160k – $295k
Architect 3 $220k $220k – $230k
Highest paying role Backend Software Engineer (Senior/Staff) $295k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cardless By role, level and city, against the market · 20 jobs with pay

People

Scott Kazmierowicz
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Spelfogel
Executive Officer, Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
21
8 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
27% ▲
Product
20%
Management
13% ▼
Leadership
7% ▲
Design
7% ▼
Legal
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added AWS Step Functions to stack Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added Spark to stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Sep 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack Sep 2026
Added Shopify to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026
Added Feature Store to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
21 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 200-500 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Management, Operations, Backend
seen since Jan 2026 job postings

Jobs

$200k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Machine Learning
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$200k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$160k – $295k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Java
Jackson
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
AWS Step Functions
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≈ $200k – $407k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$175k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
GraphQL
Next.js
Yarn
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Rest API
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$175k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
Design
Figma
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$130k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Tableau
Looker
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Financials

Total raised
$108.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $60M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $38.4M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $7.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $2.9M Details