Backend Engineer & Data Insights for Social Impact

Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Lean In & The Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation is hiring a Backend Engineer to architect and maintain backend services and data pipelines powering our platforms. You will turn data into metrics and insights to guide strategy in a fast-growing environment.

You will own technical projects end-to-end, work across data engineering, engineering, and data science, and help scale systems to serve millions of users while aligning with Lean In's mission.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in back-end or full-stack engineering with data analytics experience.
• Strong proficiency in a server-side language (Python preferred; others welcome) and RESTful APIs.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL experience across systems.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines.
• Ability to define and track metrics and instrumentation.
• Experience running experiments to measure impact.
• Data visualization and communicating analysis clearly.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Commitment to Lean In's mission and alignment with Foundation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable back-end services, APIs, and database architectures.
• Take end-to-end ownership of technical projects from design to production release.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and troubleshoot across the stack.
• Optimize performance, scalability, security, and observability.
• Build and maintain reliable data pipelines from ingestion to reporting.
• Design and optimize data infrastructure and warehousing.
• Ensure data quality and governance across systems.
• Implement logging and instrumentation for measurability.
• Partner with leadership to define and track goal metrics.
• Build dashboards and visualizations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design experiments and analyze A/B tests to optimize features.
• Build predictive models and recommendations to personalize user journeys.
• Translate analysis into practical recommendations for decisions.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Data pipelines

Metrics & dashboards

Data visualization

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelors in CS/Data Science

Tools

Node.js

Ruby

Java

Job description

Lean In & The Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation is hiring a Backend Engineer to architect and maintain backend services and data pipelines powering our platforms. You will turn data into metrics and insights to guide strategy in a fast-growing environment.

You will own technical projects end-to-end, work across data engineering, engineering, and data science, and help scale systems to serve millions of users while aligning with Lean In's mission.