We are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team. As one of the earliest engineering hires, you’ll take on a lead role with vast ownership across one of our stacks. We are tackling challenging and important problems, and need engineers who can operate well in ambiguity and come to a great solution.
As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use-cases that we serve. We value strong ownership on our team, while also being highly collaborative and always seeking input and feedback.
As part of being a backend engineer, you’ll use a variety of programming languages and technologies to scale our platform to handle terabytes of data being ingested across a variety of data sources. You will work on a wide range of complex challenges, including building a sophisticated sharing model, processing streams of data from multiple sources, efficiently notifying users on data matching specified criteria, and optimize queries to serve search results quickly. Our stack is constantly evolving but based on the foundations of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Neo4J, AWS, Terraform, and Ansible.
About You
- Significant experience working with cross functional software development teams
- Comfortable navigating large code bases and building distributed systems
- Shipped and iterated on major software components in your professional career, the open source community, and/or side projects
- Write robust, well tested, and well designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
What We Look For
- Strong understanding of architecture and scaling large software systems
- Strong best practices in modern software development such as deployments, CI/CD, data management, and distributed systems
- Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
- Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
- Driven and self-disciplined with the ability to own projects from start to finish
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
JOB REQUIRED SKILLS:
Python
- Computer degree, to have fundamentals.
- Top tier company or CS degree from top ranked school
Strongly Preferred (Positives)
- More important to have experience worked at top tier tech companies like FAANG or top CS programs than the exact tech stack match. Smart people can learn new tech quickly.
- Post COVID - SF in person. 100% remote maybe possible for exceptional candidates - case by case.
- Female Engineer Preferred: Looking for our help to increase the pipeline of under-represented candidates to supplement their internal channels. Strongly prefer female candidate submissions from us
- Preference for Python, Django, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL
- Generally interested in folks working at companies working with large-scale data or data engineering, like Tableau, Palantir
