Backend Software Engineer, Poggio Labs
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Customer data application developers
Open for applications
Customer data application developers
1-20 employees
Open for applications
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More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To pioneer a new style of application architecture in service of transforming the relationships between businesses and their customers.
Role
Who you are
- Exhibit a strong desire to win as a team
- Demonstrate good technical judgement, curiosity, and enthusiasm for doing things right
- Demonstrate high regard for craft and ability to execute
- Be comfortable with ambiguity and collaborate effectively with a strong bias for action
- Be excited to invent the future of how AI will transform work
- Have their finger on the pulse of the recent developments of generative AI
- Be able to communicate about technical concepts with non-technical counterparts
- 4+ years of experience building scalable platforms
- Solid understanding of modern backend-end technologies like Python, SQL and NoSQL datastores, and API design and integration
- Experience maintaining a high quality bar for systems design, correctness, and testing
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders to creatively solve problems, including requirements analysis, technical design tradeoffs, and ownership post-delivery
- Familiarity with or willingness to learn frontend engineering (and the desire to help out across the stack when needed)
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field OR equivalent skills & experience
Desirable
- Knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure management (including tools like Terraform)
What the job involves
- Work closely with other senior engineers, designers, our CTO and CEO to understand the needs of our users and the business, in order to prioritize and scope product initiatives
- Build the Poggio product, frequently leading user-impacting platform capabilities from the idea stage through release and impact measurement
- Work from briefs that range from very open-ended to somewhat developed
Application process
- We do 5 interviews, then pay you to do a work trial which is close to what you may do for your day-to-day work
- Application (You are here): Our talent team will review your application to see how your skills and experience align with our needs
- Recruiter Meeting (30 min video call): Our goal is to explore your motivations to join our team, learn why you’d be a great fit, and answer questions about us
- Manager Meeting (45 min video call): You'll meet the hiring manager who will evaluate skills needed to be successful in your role
- Technical Interview (60 min video call): You'll meet someone from the engineering team who will evaluate your technical skills. This is a live coding interview
- Collaboration 1:1 (45 min video call): You will meet a non-engineer who will evaluate your approach to collaboration and teamwork
- System Design Interview (60 min video call): You'll meet someone from the engineering team who will evaluate your system design skills
- Paid Work Trial (All day): You will spend a day (remotely or in-person depending on location) working on a task related to your role, meeting the team, and seeing what a realistic day is like working at Poggio
- Offer: If everyone is happy and references are passed, an offer is extended to join Poggio! Yay!
Our take
Salesforce has long been the leading light in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software; but the market is getting cluttered. The incumbent has invested, astutely, into capitalizing on its deep penetration by packing out additional features; but major rivals like Oracle Sales right down to a flurry of smaller startups like Optimove are looking to siphon off some of its market share. Poggio Labs is one of them.
The company is in its early stages still, and keeping details on its CRM software very much under wraps. It has, however, dropped one hint: the suggestion that its software will help “power intelligent relationships”. Intelligent software, software that employs AI and ML to automate areas like analysis and big data management, is widely touted to be the future of CRMs. It means salespeople can access more accurate insights, and chase more promising leads.
Whether this will serve as the core of Poggio Labs remains to be seen - and with Salesforce already working with intelligent systems, Poggio Labs will have a tough fight either way in wrestling away some of its market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Salaries benchmarked in top 25%
- Equity in Poggio Labs' future success
- 100% health, dental, ortho and vision insurance & FSA
- 100% paid parental leave
- 100% match 401k retirement plan via Guideline
- $1200 life Enrichment Allowance
- $7000 office & equipment stipend
- Work where and when you want
- Flexible vacations and paid holiday time
- Company sponsored co-worker meetups & off-sites
- No-red-tape expense account
- Focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion
Company values
- Curiosity
- Confidence
- Empowerment
- Commitment
- Humanity
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Matt Slotnick
(CEO & Co-Founder)Originally an Investment Banking Analyst at Shea & Company, who then moved into a Senior Associate role at Norwest Venture Partners. Subsequently spent time working on platform and middleware products for Google Cloud.
Connor Doyle
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineer at Gensler, who then worked on distributed systems at Mesosphere, Inc. After spending time as a Software Architect at Intel Corporation, left to co-found UX research platform CustomerDB.
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