Senior Data Platform Engineer, Extend
$158-182k
+ Stock Options
Warranty and protection plan services
Be an early applicant
Warranty and protection plan services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$158-182k
+ Stock Options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide clients with a seamless product protection experience, helping benefit both merchants and customers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years in Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related fields
- Expertise in AWS: Proven experience working with AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, etc.)
- Event-Driven Architecture: Hands-on experience with event-driven systems and Kafka
- Strong Problem-Solving Skills: A track record of building and optimizing large-scale data platforms and integrations
- Leadership and Mentorship: Experience mentoring and guiding engineers, with a collaborative and humble approach
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help us continue maturing our enterprise merchant-facing platform.
- This position requires a blend of skills across Solutions Engineering, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering, with a focus on designing scalable, resilient, and forward-looking solutions
- Big Picture Thinking: You'll map unique data schemas and flows to our current and future platform capabilities, keeping long-term scalability and sustainability in mind
- Implement Anti-Corruption Layers: You will design and build systems to handle diverse data schemas, ensuring the isolation of uniqueness and the consistency of downstream data
- Defensive Coding: Data integration points can be brittle, and we need engineers who can anticipate and defend against potential data issues. You'll build robust solutions to handle the complexity and prevent errors
- Mentorship: We value a low-ego, highly collaborative environment. You will have the opportunity to mentor teammates, lead by example, and contribute to the broader organization
- Cutting-Edge Technologies: You will work in AWS, leveraging technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, and step-functions. You’ll collaborate closely with teams focused on infrastructure and developer experience
- Event-Driven Architecture: We are moving towards a fully event-driven architecture, using Kafka to decouple dependencies and increase the robustness of our platform
- Ownership Mentality: In this role, you’ll own your work end-to-end. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, correctness, and performance of the code you write. This is not a role for someone who requires step-by-step guidance; we’re looking for proactive problem-solvers
- Technologies You'll Work With;
- AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, Step Functions)
- Kafka for event-driven architecture
- Python, Typescript, NodeJS
- There may occasionally be times when night or weekend work is required for critical tasks. Collaboration during core hours is expected
Our take
Extend allows online and offline merchants to offer product warranties and protection plans at the point of sale. It aims to provide a comprehensive and centralised warranty system where before there was not one. Extend also provides customers themselves with a fast support experience, where 95% of claims are resolved in just 90 seconds.
Its API based platform is integrated into the likes of Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and BigCommerce, and can also be integrated into private client-owned e-commerce platforms. This ease of use is what makes Extend so appealing for clients.
The company has seen good funding that has fuelled business growth and geographical expansion. It’s interesting to note that PayPal Ventures and SoftBank are two of their main backers, as this indicates that payment giants see the value of these point of sale transactions. In 2022, Extend was named a certified partner of Shopify and reached an important milestone in becoming a full-service company, taking it one step closer to its vision of becoming the "AppleCare for everything".
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$260m
SERIES C
Oct 2020
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $316.4m
Company benefits
- Unlimited coffee, drinks, and snacks at the office
- A friendly and collaborative place to work
- Company stock options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Fully covered medical, vision and dental insurance
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Woodrow Levin
(CEO & Founder)Woodrow started his career by founding InStadium in 2000, where he spent 7 years before also founding Riverbank Capital and BringIt. After further roles at DocuSign and DraftKings, he founded Extend in February 2019, serving since then as CEO.
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