Lead Backend Engineer, Supermetrics
Data Warehouse
+ Equity
Data integration platform
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Data integration platform
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To make data analysis simpler, more productive and more connected.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of back-end experience (PHP) in a production environment, preferably building a SaaS product
- Experience with building data pipelines or handling large volumes of data
- Experience working with API integrations
- Ability to conduct unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing
- Strong understanding of architecture & software design
- Strong grasp of the software testing discipline
- Understanding of security best practices
- Experience collaborating directly with product teams and designers
- Detailed oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong communication skills, fluent in English is a must
- Ability to give effective feedback
Desirable
- Understanding of monitoring tools and ability to interpret monitoring data. This includes tools such as Datadog, OpenSearch, Grafana, etc., which are used to track application performance and system metrics
- Experience with Kubernetes in a cloud environment
- Proficient use of AI tools
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Lead Backend Engineer (PHP) to join our Data Storage Team, where we are helping customers streamlining their data transfers from their favourite data sources to the most popular datawarehouse and datalake destinations
- Here’s what you’ll help us deliver:
- Our next generation data transfer system: we are currently redesigning our data transfer system to be more scalable, more resilient and handle larger volumes of data for our customers
- Supermetrics storage layer: We are continuously improving our storage solution to help customers make their first steps with data warehousing
- Improved monitoring: We are revamping our monitoring to be more efficient and allow us to detect and resolve issues faster
- Agentic AI integration: With the technology progressing at rapid pace we are looking at how best we can integrate AI agents to our customers' journeys to better analyze and activate their data
- Leading the development of new features and functionalities for our customers
- Leading and planning new initiatives and features
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and estimate development efforts
- Drive and enforce high code quality standards through thorough code reviews, promoting best practices in software development, and ensuring maintainability and scalability
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and share knowledge to enhance the team's overall performance and expertise
- Proactively identify and address potential system bottlenecks, improve monitoring and alerting capabilities, and ensure the stability and performance
- Utilizing existing monitoring tools to ensure system stability
Our take
Helsinki-based Supermetrics is a data integration platform making it easy for marketers and business intelligence teams to analyse data from popular ad platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter and integrate them into their preferred analytics and data warehouse platforms.
Despite competition from companies such as Fivetran and Adverity, the company boasts an impressive client list, including Nestlé, Warner Brothers, L’Oréal, owing to its variety of products, such as Supermetrics for Google Sheets, Excel, and BigQuery.
Supermetrics success is product-led and due to the increase in demand for its offerings, the company witnessed a growth of 40% YoY in 2022. Going forward, the company is focused on continuing its strong growth path and hopes to at least double its turnover. It's also emphasising its presence in the US market as important and expects to grow fast.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$45.3m
SERIES B
Nov 2017
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.3m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: We cover your healthcare costs, and you'll get a wellness allowance for things like sports, massage, and meditation.
- Equity & bonuses: All full-time Supermetrics employees are owners through equity. Everyone is also part of a personal bonus or commission plan.
- Flexible remote work: Enjoy working flexibly from home and in productive and uplifting office environments. Fully remote employees get a stipend to upgrade their home office.
- Generous paid time off: We take recharging from work seriously and encourage you to take all your leave. Paid parental leave is part of the package, too, of course.
- Personal learning stipend: We offer a personal learning budget to boost your professional growth.
- Excellent equipment: You’ll get a laptop, a phone with a plan, noise-canceling headphones, plus the ergonomic equipment you need for your work. And your wifi is on us, too.
- Stellar team events: We're known for our amazing team events, parties, and offsites. We also happily support employee-organized activities that bring teammates together.
Company HQ
Kluuvi, Helsinki, Uusimaa
Leadership
Mikael Thuneberg
(Co-CEO)Experienced Researcher, having previously worked at 15/30 Research, Sulake, and T-Media. Also the founder and CEO of Automate Analytics.
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