Backend Engineer - Data (London, Toronto, NYC)

EliteHunt; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm is seeking a Backend Engineer to enhance their data infrastructure. The role involves managing data pipelines and collaborating with clients to gather requirements. Candidates should have over 6 years of software engineering experience, proficiency in TypeScript, and a strong background in data architecture. The company offers competitive salary and benefits including unlimited PTO and a remote-first work environment, with support for home office needs.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Unlimited PTO

Equipment stipend

Monthly wellness stipend

Annual learning stipend

Company retreats

Qualifications

• 6+ years software engineering experience.
• Customer-facing experience or excellent communication skills.
• Solid understanding of data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build a unified system to manage all data pipelines.
• Work with clients to gather requirements and implement pipelines.

Skills

TypeScript

Data architecture

Communication and collaboration

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Go

Python

Job description

About the job Backend Engineer - Data (London, Toronto, NYC)

We're building a new way to think and work with numbers. Causal is a tool for performing calculations, visualising data, and communicating with numbers. We take the good parts of spreadsheets and combine them with the good parts of programming, to make number-crunching fast, collaborative, and accessible to everyone. We are well-funded by some great VCs (Accel, Coatue, Passion Capital) and angel investors (Naval Ravikant, Scott Belsky, and many more) across the US and Europe.

We're looking for an engineer to build out our data infrastructure. Robust data infrastructure is crucial for our product working with live data is one of the biggest pain points of spreadsheets, and one of the biggest value propositions of Causal. We need to be able to connect to any customer data, wherever it lives accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, NetSuite), CRM (e.g. Salesforce, Hubspot), payments provider (e.g. Stripe), and custom databases/data warehouses.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a unified system to manage all data pipelines (including health checks and alerting)
• Work with clients and our customer success team to gather requirements and implement pipelines to pull data from various data sources

Minimum Qualifications

• Have solid understanding and proficiency using TypeScript.
• 6+ years software engineering experience
• Experience with MongoDB or PostgreSQL
• 4+ years of experience (excluding contracting). Including customer-facing experience OR other demonstrated experience with excellent communication and collaboration
• Experience with Node or Go or Python (Good to have)
• Experience with data architecture

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited PTO
• Equipment stipend to support your home office needs
• Generous monthly remote wellness stipend, which can be used flexibly for daily lunch, gym membership, co-working, etc.
• Generous annual learning and development stipend
• Company retreats twice a year
• Remote-first (United States, Canada, United Kingdom) with physical spaces in London and NYC
• We can sponsor visa for the right candidates
• This is a full time, W2 role and not C2C or for contractors