Kloudio is a seed stage company focused on providing non-technical teams such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A) easy access to data- wherever it sits within the enterprise- in a format easy to analyze. The inability for most knowledge workers within an organization to engage with business intelligence tools creates many inefficiencies and time lag between data engineers and the knowledge worker to get routine reports. Kloudio sits between the data storage, data warehouses, or SaaS applications and the end user analytical applications such as Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau or Looker.

We are looking for a lead backend engineer to join the Data Platform team. If you are passionate about simplifying data access for non-technical users, we would like to speak with you. This position requires candidates with a solid background in computer science. You know how data pipelines and data warehouses work. You have solid programming skills in Python, JavaScript or Java/Go. We are looking for an engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit to work well in an early stage company, collaborate with the team and can learn things quickly and innovate in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain services and components across Kloudio's platform, data and web applications.
Build APIs with Swagger documentation according to the specifications.
Create secure and well-tested libraries that enable modular, extensible design.
Build connectors to various third party cloud applications/web services.
Participate in design and code reviews, and mentoring of engineers
Take full ownership of projects and features from architecture to deployment.
Partner with customers, engineers, product managers and designers to deliver end to end capabilities
Recommend and lead continuous improvements to performance, reliability and tooling.

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Math or Engineering.
7+ years of experience in software development with strong CS fundamentals
3+ years of experience working in Python or NodeJS.
Experience with test-driven development and frameworks (e.g. PyUnit, Mocha, Jest, JUnit).
Expertise with data stores and database technologies (such as MySQL, PostGres, Redis, Mongo), schema design, SQL.
Experience with Data orchestration, pipelines and workflow engines (such as Airflow).
Experience building, deploying to cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
Experience working in a DevOps model and releasing using continuous deployment pipelines with Docker containers and Kubernetes is a plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area OR US-Remote friendly.

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Unusual Ventures
Senior Backend Engineer - Data (Kloud.io) at Unusual Ventures (allows remote)

Tags: python, cloud, java, node.js

Senior Backend Engineer Data