Backend Engineer, Data

Minerva; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Fitness stipend

Annual company offsite

Job summary

Minerva is hiring for an IC or senior IC product engineering role focused on data products that power marketing insights. You will own how first-party data and models deliver value in the app, define precomputation paths, and extend data pipelines to support dynamic segmentation and activation.

You will ship end-to-end features across the stack, including TypeScript frontend, Python AWS Lambda backend, and data-plane changes, collaborating with data engineering and data science teams in New York

Qualifications

• Production experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred).
• Production TypeScript and backend services shipped on AWS (Lambda or similar).
• Knowledge of AI tooling trends and packages is a plus.
• Able to build things in your own time and demonstrate them.

Responsibilities

• Own how first-party data performs in the app (sorting, filtering, charting).
• Own how models reach marketers (propensity, LTV, churn, product-fit).
• Own dynamic segments that update as data lands and are activation-ready.
• Own the in-app agent's query tool and semantic views path from question to data rows.
• Own the product side of the sync (Precomputation decisions, Postgres to client).
• Extend pipelines when needed and ship end-to-end features (e.g., Python Lambda, Zero schema changes, TanStack Start page).

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Data-heavy SaaS experience

Data warehouse experience

End-to-end feature ownership

Willingness to relocate/ NYC

Tools

Snowflake

AWS Lambda

TypeScript

TanStack Start

React

Tailwind

Job description

ABOUT MINERVA

Minerva builds AI for marketing leaders. We work together with marketers to automate and accelerate their workflows with AI agents. Our agents augment the end-to-end workflow of the marketer by automating analysis, campaign planning, activation, measurement and reporting.

Customers like the NBA, Ramp, Wander, Hard Rock Stadium Group and Luxury Presence use Minerva to develop a better understanding of their customers and introduce AI specifically built to understand the customer into their commercial organizations. Our campaigns outperform other tools because we built the entire stack: from identity to enrichment to data integration as well as agents to action and report on the analysis.

We've raised $20M from The General Partnership, 8VC, Lingotto, NBA Investments, Topology Ventures, Future Positive, Background Capital and many others. Our team brings together operators and investors from Citadel, Dentsu, Bridgewater, Meta Superintelligence, Growthloop, Amazon and Lazard, alongside engineers and researchers from Berkeley, MIT, Stanford and Cambridge.

THE ROLE

A warehouse full of consumer data does nothing for a marketer until they can sort, filter and chart it in the time it takes to ask the question.

Our data team builds the consumer graph and each brand's first-party models, and our data scientists train scores on top. This seat makes all of it usable in the product: first-party fields that respond instantly, scores on the pages marketers already use, segments that stay current, and an agent that turns a plain-English question into the right query against a brand's own data.

This is an IC or senior IC seat on product engineering, working day to day with data engineering and data science. Your counterpart on the warehouse side is our Staff Data Engineer, who owns the golden model and publishes the semantic views you build on.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own how first-party data performs in the app. Any field a brand connects can be sorted, filtered and charted without a live warehouse query. You decide what gets precomputed, where it lives and how it stays fresh.

• Own how our models reach marketers. Propensity, LTV, churn and product-fit scores on the person, segment and product pages, with full distributions instead of a single number.

• Own dynamic segments. Segments that update as new data lands, with stats ready for activation.

• Own the in-app agent's query tool, built on the semantic views our data platform team publishes. You own the path from a marketer's question to the right rows.

• Own the product side of the sync. What gets precomputed, and the path from Postgres to the synced client. Each hop costs money and time, and you choose on purpose.

• Extend the pipelines. You mostly build on what the data team produces. When a feature needs a table that doesn't exist, you write the model or pipeline step yourself.

• Ship end to end. One feature can mean a Python Lambda, a Zero schema change and a TanStack Start page. You ship all three.

OUR STACK

• App: TypeScript, TanStack Start, React 19, Tailwind and Base UI, on Vite and Bun.

• Sync: Zero on Postgres, schema in Drizzle. The app reads from a live-synced local copy of the data instead of request-response endpoints.

• AI: Mastra for agents, Temporal for long-running work.

• Backend: Python on AWS Lambda.

• Data: Snowflake, including semantic views and Cortex.

WHAT YOU HAVE

• Production experience with a cloud data warehouse. Snowflake preferred.

• Production TypeScript, and backend services shipped on AWS: Lambda or similar.

• You're current. You know what shipped in AI tooling this month and what changed in the latest release of the packages you depend on.

• You build things on your own time, and you can show us.

• You're in New York City or willing to relocate.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU ARE…

• A full-stack engineer at a data-heavy SaaS company who ended up owning the warehouse because someone had to, and liked it.

• A product engineer at a warehouse-native analytics or activation company who has spent years making Snowflake feel fast inside an app.

• A backend engineer who has shipped on a sync engine like Zero, Replicache or ElectricSQL, and wants a dataset big enough to stress it. We'd be especially impressed by this one.

• A data engineer tired of handing tables to other teams who wants to own the feature the table ends up in.

• Or you don't fit any of these neatly, but you built something this year that changed how you think data should reach a user. Apply.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• First 90 days: new scores and first-party tables reach the app through a repeatable system you built.

• First 6 months: any first-party field can be sorted, filtered and charted without a live warehouse query, and the in-app agent's query tool runs on your layer.

• No single number. When product engineering has a data question, it comes to you.

COMPENSATION

$170,000–$236,000 base salary, depending on level. Meaningful equity. Medical, dental and vision.

WHERE WE WORK

We work in person from our office at 300 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

BENEFITS

Every full-time role includes equity; medical, dental and vision coverage; unlimited PTO; a monthly fitness stipend; and an annual company offsite. We'd rather pay people well than buy perks nobody uses.

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The salary range in this posting is our good‑faith range for the role in New York City at the time of posting. Where an offer lands depends on the level and experience we see in the interview process.

WORK AUTHORIZATION

You'll need to be authorized to work in the United States. We consider visa sponsorship case by case, so tell us on the application if you'll need it.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Minerva is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, New York State or New York City law.

RECRUITMENT FRAUD

Our hiring runs through Ashby and @minerva.io email addresses. We will never ask you for money, bank details or other financial information during the process. If a message claiming to be from Minerva looks wrong, forward it to [e-mail].