Generalist Software Engineer, MotherDuck
$140-250k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Data analytics platform
Open for applications
Data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$140-250k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for software engineers who thrive in a generalist role… engineers who enjoy solving meaningful problems across the stack and are comfortable navigating ambiguity to deliver durable solutions
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages and eagerness to learn new ones
- Experience building and operating production-grade systems
- Strong debugging skills and comfort navigating ambiguity
- Thoughtfulness in balancing short-term execution with long-term maintainability
- Curiosity, empathy, and a collaborative working style
What the job involves
- As a software engineer at MotherDuck, you’ll collaborate with teammates across frontend, backend, and infrastructure to design and build reliable systems, implement product features, improve performance, and create delightful developer and user experiences
- You’ll help define not just what we build, but how we build it… shaping both the platform and the culture of our growing engineering organization
- Work across the stack to design, build, and maintain high-impact product features and internal tools
- Investigate and resolve complex technical issues that may span services, layers, or teams
- Contribute to system architecture and design decisions as we scale the platform
- Write clear, maintainable code in multiple languages including Go, C++, Python, and TypeScript
- Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to define and implement solutions that align with user needs
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and customer or production oncall rotations
- Example Projects:
- Develop a crisp API for customers to manage their organization
- Add a new component to our UI
- Improve our integration with dbt
- Develop secure user impersonation and role-based access control
- Optimize our internal metadata to improve performance
- What people should be saying if you’re doing ducking awesome
- “They can jump into any part of the codebase and make an impact.”
- “They connect the dots between teams and make complex problems feel simpler.”
- “Every feature they ship works beautifully across the stack.”
- “They bring clarity when things feel ambiguous.”
Application process
- Round 1: Interview with our Talent Partner (30min)
- Round 2: Technical Screen with one of our Tech Leads (30min)
- Round 3: 4 meetings with members of the team (60min each)
- Round 4: Values interview with our CEO/Founder (45min)
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company is now well-positioned to further enhance its platform and expand its user base. As MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements, the company is also poised to play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees (plus 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents)
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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