Senior Backend Software Engineer, Jellyfish
$165-235k
Plus equity
More information about location
Intelligence platform for AI-driven engineering
Open for applications
Intelligence platform for AI-driven engineering
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$165-235k
Plus equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable better decision-making across AI use adoption, planning, developer experience and delivery so R&D teams can deliver stronger business outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- You know how to build and scale data pipelines
- You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
- You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
- You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
- You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution
- You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others
- You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team
- Located in EST or CST time zone
- You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
- A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great, but humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must
Desirable
- You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
- You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
- You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use
What the job involves
- The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively
- We’re in search of a Backend Engineer who’s passionate about performance, scaling, and working with a lot of data. Ideally, you’re performance minded and have worked on data ingestion and ETL processes
- This is a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency: where you can help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them
- Develop and improve upon data ingestion from external sources (e.g. Jira/Git) into Jellyfish
- Implement observability and metrics tooling
- Develop internal tools to enable teams to better support our customers
- Handle customer escalations related to data ingestion
- Design, plan and implement key features as part of a highly effective agile team
- Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
- Communicate effectively about project status, technical issues
- Participate in your team’s agile process and work to continually improve your team’s capabilities
- Provide support for production operations of the Jellyfish product
- Actively participate in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on your team
Our take
Engineering leaders are often left in the dark when it comes to exactly what their teams are doing when developing new products. This was a source of frustration shared by the founders of Jellyfish, who had similar visibility issues when running their own engineering and product teams.
Its platform attempts to do for engineering team leaders what CRM systems have done for sales teams. It aims to keep managers in the loop around projects, including the productivity of individual engineers, where time and resources are spent, and whether products are on schedule.
The company has a long list of customers including Toast, Medium, DataRobot, Digital Guardian, New Relic, and Mastercard subsidiary SessionM. The global transition to remote work saw a surge in business for Jellyfish, which has led to an increase in its headcount and further revenue growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$71m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$31.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $117.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible workplace (our HQ is in Boston, MA but Jellies live all over the US)
- Flexible time off (plus 13 company holidays)
- Stock options so you can be a part of Jellyfish’s future success
- Paid parental leave
- Pet insurance
- Outings and events (team dinners, Red Sox games, game nights and more)
- 401(k) (pre-tax and Roth contribution options)
- Financial wellness resources through Fidelity
- Top-tier medical and dental plans to keep you and your family in good health
- Plans available for vision, voluntary life, accident, critical illness, and hospital coverage – plus we cover the costs for short term and long term disability coverage
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Philip Braden
(Co-Founder)Philip worked as a Consultant for 4 years before 7 years at Endeca and working as VP of Product at Vocus. They left their role of 4 years as a Fishbowl Marketing Manager to co-found Jellyfish in 2017.
David Gourley
(Co-Founder)David studied at UCB before working at Inktomi, Endeca, and Ludic Labs for 15 years. They spent 4 years at Groupon, moving from VP Product and Engineering to founding Jellyfish.
Andrew Lau
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at MIT, Andrew founded Broadway Commerce in 2009, before being a Redstar Entrepreneur in Residence and founding LoopIt. They left their CSO role at Nanigans in 2014 to co-found Jellyfish as CEO in 2017.
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