Software Engineer, Middesk
Data Platform
$205-275k
+ Offers Equity
Business identity platform
Be an early applicant
Business identity platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-275k
+ Offers Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the economy by scaling trust between businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on data infrastructure, data engineering, or backend platform work (targeting Senior to Staff Level Engineers)
- Experience designing and operating systems at meaningful scale, ideally within a larger or rapidly scaling engineering organization
- Track record of independently owning and delivering complex, multi-milestone projects - from scoping through launch
- Strong data modeling instincts and deep familiarity with SQL, pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, etc.), and data transformation patterns
- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, or similar) and an understanding of when and how to apply parallelization to scale pipelines beyond single-node limits
- Proficiency in one or more of: Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java
Desirable
- Experience working with or building AI/LLM-powered tooling or data products (strongly preferred)
- Experience with scraper technologies, including agentic AI
- Experience building and designing collections stored on Elasticsearch
- Experience operating event-driven data pipelines using serverless compute (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions) and managed cloud services
- Experience with Terraform, Datadog, or Kubernetes
What the job involves
- We're looking for a senior engineer to own and drive the technical direction of our data platform
- You'll design data infrastructure systems that operate reliably at scale, define the architecture for how we acquire, transform, and serve data to product teams, and partner closely with engineering leadership to align platform strategy with company priorities
- You'll be expected to independently scope complex projects from ambiguous problem statements, break them into incremental deliverables, and drive them to completion while keeping stakeholders informed and adapting when priorities shift
- You'll also play a key role in elevating the engineering practices of the team through mentorship, code review, and setting technical standards
- Own platform architecture and technical direction for how we ingest, transform, and serve data across highly variable input formats - business entity data sourced from thousands of government agencies, registries, and third-party providers, each with its own schema, cadence, and reliability profile
- Design and build systems for scale - both the infrastructure we need today and the infrastructure we'll need at 2–5x our current volume
- Scope and drive complex projects end-to-end, breaking ambiguous problems into well-defined milestones with clear deliverables and timelines
- Design AI-powered tooling to improve how we acquire and maintain data using LLMs, AI agents, and agent orchestration
- Partner with product engineering, data science, and business teams to understand data needs and translate them into platform capabilities
- Establish and maintain data governance and quality standards across the platform, ensuring the integrity and reliability of the data our customers depend on for compliance and risk decisions
Our take
Middesk helps businesses screen, verify, and run risk and compliance checks on customers and other businesses. The founders developed the business after experiencing first-hand the often laborious process of manual identity verification, a process which has proven a pain point for many businesses historically.
This hands-on experience helped land Middesk seeding from heavyweight investors Sequoia and Accel. The company's focus is on businesses with stringent regulatory risk requirements, with a special focus on businesses involved in financial aspects like credit and payroll. Middesk’s focus on this sector opens them up to a growing, lucrative market as more businesses than ever are demanding services comparable to retail banking, credit unions and community banks.
Testament to the value of their offering is Middesk’s recent partnership with challenger bank tech platform Agora Services. The challenger bank sector is taking off fast too, and if Middesk can establish a strong reputation for servicing this burgeoning industry, they stand to win big.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$57m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $77.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We take care of you premiums for medical, dental, and vision.
- Unlimited PTO: We have an unlimited PTO policy and encourage you actually to use it.
- Ownership: We offer a stake in the company to every full-time employee through stock options.
- 401(k): We make it easy to save money for retirement.
- Parental leave: We offer three months of paid parental leave to any parent.
- Hybrid work: We have offices in San Francisco and New York and also offer the ability to work remotely.
- Catered lunches: We offer catered lunches on days that you're in the San Francisco or New York office.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kyle Mack
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at AnyPerk as an Account Executive and Sales Team Lead, and at Checkr as a Sales Lead, Director of Strategic Sales, and Director of Solutions. They have served as a Scout at Sequoia Capital since 2020.
Kurt Ruppel
(Co-Founder & CTO)They studied Cognitive Science at Berkeley before working as a Software Engineer at multiple companies, including Zendesk.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 17 more jobs at Middesk