Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Full-Time, Remote)

Salary: 85-200k

Our client is an end-to-end analytics stack for retailers and brands!

Whether it is store managers running A/B tests on new product placement, CEOs looking at their global store performance, or merchandisers planning the next season, our platform enables retailers and brands to get instant visibility in their business.

The majority of retailers do not have the in-house expertise to spin up data infrastructure. Instead, they piece together reports in excel on a daily basis. This works fine for small eCommerce brands, but not for retailers in the $50M-$5B range. That is where we come in.

We offer our customers:

• Retail-specific dashboards: best-practice metrics / visuals are built-in and customizable
• No integration: we make their data and systems work with our platform
• Hosted infrastructure: we host the pipelines and data warehouse

So, why join?

• We are growing and profitable
• We have high user engagement
• We run the analytics for brands you know
• YCombinator-backed
• Small team, lots of opportunities to grow and shape the future of the company
• We are a no ego, no bs, collaborative group passionate about our product and customers

Here is our stack

• App: Isomorphic Javascript/ Typescript, Lerna, SQL (Front-End)
• Data: PySpark, OLAP SQL (Backend)
• Infra: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes (Backend)

Challenges

• Automating the merging of datasets across similar data sources
• Processing human-generated datasets
• Creating connectors that are reusable but can be extended to add customer-specific tweaks
• Generalizing new features so that they work with all of our customers and can support many use cases

Sample projects working at 42

• Expose our unified data warehouse API to the world
• Create a metric notification system (e.g. push out-of-stock alerts to Zapier)
• Hook up our authentication system to user directories of our customers
• Replace our SQL data warehouse with Spark 3.0 + GPUs
• Spin up an image resizing and caching proxy
• Build a portal to allow users to monitor the health of their data sources
• GPT-3 + 42=?

You are a person that...

• has 3+ years professional back-end / fullstack Javascript/typescript experience
• can overlap ~4hrs with San Francisco Timezone (Pacific Time)
• can work well as part of a fast-paced remote-first startup
• is self-motivated, resourceful and can get things done, even at times with minimal direction
• is familiar with SQL and data modeling
• is familiar with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• is passionate about eliminating technical debt

What we provide

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Company games every 2 weeks, IRL meetup every 4-6 months
• Flexible family benefits
• Flexible vacation policy
• Special requests welcome!

To wrap up, a few fun facts about us

• We are a lean team, located across three continents and speak six languages
• More than half of us are parents
• We like sharing food updates though we are split on loving or detesting peppers

If this sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you! Write "ALL THE FISH" to prove you are a human