Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Fully Remote

COMPANY

Our Client is the cloud-native low-code solution for data prep and visualization. They enable analysts and citizen data scientists to answer questions from data in minutes, not hours or days.

They have raised over $25M in venture funding through its Series A, led by Insight Partners with continued support from Unusual Ventures. They have global enterprise production customers across Finance, Manufacturing, Biotech, Retail, and Alternative Energy.

TEAM + VALUES

Our Client is fully remote, with employees located across the US including New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. They have grown a world-class team with alumni from Confluent, DataRobot, Slalom, and Domino Data Lab.

Their company was founded on two core values:

Humility: No brilliant jerks, they learn, grow and win as a team
Killer Instinct: Get stuff done, stop at nothing to accomplish your task.

WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR

They are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about building a world-class product and who excels at fast-paced development. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background developing APIs and collaboratively building minimum-viable products to address specific user needs (link removed) A firm grasp of software engineering best practices will be very important in this role.

They all love what they do and hope you will too.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a member of the Engineering Team, you'll partner with their Founders to play a critical role in developing the foundational product and beyond. This is a rare chance to help invent a new way of doing cloud data prep with a next-gen solution enabled by the latest cloud data warehouse technologies.

In a typical week, you will take customer-requested features from concept to deployed code. Key activities include:

Communicating closely with the product team to fully understand "who" you're building for and the "why" behind what you're building
"Dice Rolling" new production functionality (i.e. getting MVP code in production on a daily basis so we can learn from it)
Contributing to the product backend by building API endpoints in python
Contributing to our open-source Python SDKs
Writing SQL templates that will be consumed in the product
Integrating with Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and more
Supporting our Customer Success team by fixing bugs and optimizing user experience
Building an incredible team culture that revolves around accountability, humility, and customer results
MUST HAVES

Senior-level proficiency building cloud-native backend services
Senior-level proficiency with Python or other backend language
Senior-level proficiency creating and maintaining APIs
Proficiency in SQL and common database technologies
Thought leadership in your domain and active collaboration with a team of seniors
Experience working on a small team (preferably a start-up) with full responsibility for rapid delivery
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a remote environment
At least 5 years of experience in software development

NICE TO HAVES

Proficiency with React js or similar javascript frameworks
Proficiency with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake or BigQuery preferred)
Proficiency with Postgres
Proficiency with SQLAlchemy or other ORMs
Proficiency with AWS services
Customer Support experience
A strong desire to have fun while we crush work
A healthy contempt for Agile

BENEFITS

Series A Equity, Full Coverage Family Benefits, Unlimited PTO, 401K Contributions, Full Coverage Parental Leave, Cell Phone and Internet Reimbursement, WFH Reimbursement, Latest Hardware, Competitive Salary, Remote Environment, Employee Referral Bonuses

They are an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.