Backend Engineer (Scala)
Company: Headsup
Location: Miami
Posted on: November 1, 2024
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Job Description:
Candidates from all backgrounds should feel free to apply, even
if their experience is not exactly what is stated in these job
descriptions. To apply, simply email michael@headsup.ai with your
LinkedIn (or resume), GitHub (or sample sources of work), and a
quick note on why you think this is the role for you.We are a
remote-first team with team members in North America, Europe, and
APAC.About the roleWe're looking for a seasoned Back-End engineer
(senior-level and up) to join us to build the next-generation sales
tool to serve product-led-growth companies like Notion, Figma, and
Amplitude.Robust Development: Help lead the development of our
back-end services. Our back-end needs to be scalable, robust, and
secure to handle large amounts of event data and analytical
processing on the modern data stack (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift,
Airflow etc.).You'll need to design intuitive, durable, and
extensible APIs that scale.You'll need to build reliable services
to ingest millions of events daily and process them into insights
and alerts.You'll help direct how data should be partitioned and
how infrastructure should be set up, optimizing for security and
latency.You'll help design abstractions that empower others to ship
quickly by having a thoughtful and generalizable
interface.Technical Culture: Help define our engineering culture
and processes. Question and challenge everything and teach us
anything we've missed.Close Collaboration with Product: Work
closely with the founders to deeply understand our buyer and user
persona and help determine our roadmap.What we're looking
forExperience building data-heavy back-end systems: Our backend is
built with Scala (Zio).Proficiency in at least one of the SQL
languages: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SqlServer, Oracle.Ability to see
around corners and design both thoughtfully and quickly: While
years of experience don't always correlate with this, we think
you'll likely have at least 4 years of experience.(Preferred)
Experience with Data Engineering tools: We use Beam (Scio) on top
of Dataflow and BigQuery. We work with data warehouses including
BigQuery and others, as well as third-party event sources such as
Segment.(Preferred) Experience with workflow management tools:
Airflow, Oozie, Prefect, Dagster.(Preferred) Startup experience:
Our ideal candidate has completed 2+ year-long tours at
venture-backed startups such as Airtable, Notion, and Figma.
Specifically, we look for the ability to move quickly, design for
scale, and build with open-source software.Join a hungry,
ambitious, and elite group working towards solving a large problem
that improves the lives of salespeople and the users of SaaS
products.100% remote configuration - work from almost anywhere. Our
team is currently based in North America, Europe, and
APAC.Competitive salary and meaningful equity. We're well funded
and care about treating everyone well when it comes to stock
compensation.Periodic off-sites in exciting locations like Miami,
London, and Bali. Our first offsite was in Miami in spring
2022.Flexible time off with a required minimum of 2 weeks a year.
Taking time off when you need it is critical.Health insurance,
parental leave, support for DEI initiatives, and an openness to add
other desired benefits.$500USD to improve your remote work setup
and free meals when you need to focus on shipping.
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