Software Engineer, Hightouch
Customer Studio Backend
$180-320k
+ Equity
AI platform for marketers
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AI platform for marketers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-320k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the best customer data technology in the world available to every enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable diving deep into backend and distributed systems and think holistically about architecture, scalability, maintainability, and reliability
- We also are looking for someone with strong customer and product thinking and who feels comfortable writing and engaging with product specs
What the job involves
- Customer Studio is Hightouch’s second major product that provides a purpose-built no-code suite of features that enables anyone, regardless of their SQL experience, to activate data directly from their warehouse. The product has become an essential part of the day-to-day operations for marketing and growth teams to build and measure audiences and campaigns, and it also serves as part of the underlying infrastructure that powers our agentic marketing workflows
- The team blends product and customer-first thinking with challenges at high data scale, helping us reimagine marketing in an AI-native world
- We’re looking to add a product-minded backend engineer to the team
- Data Warehouse Performance: We’re consistently pushing the limits of what data warehouses can handle in terms of speed, performance, and interactivity. We explore optimizations generally (e.g. optimizing queries, storing pre-computed state), as well as investigate warehouse-specific improvements
- Analytics and Experimentation: How can Hightouch help customers build segments and decide what data they want to sync? How can we facilitate experimentation to downstream tools, including tracking the performance of different audiences?
- Real-time Audience Syncing: Our users are always interested in faster syncing and fresher data. As warehouses become more real-time and adopt technologies like CDC, we’re excited to explore real-time audience computation and syncing
- Generative AI: We’re continuously working on making the user experience of acting on data more seamless, and are optimistic generative AI can enhance user workflows
Application process
- Our interview process focuses on evaluating fit for the most important dimensions of the role: product sense, ability to architect backend and distributed systems, and alignment with Hightouch’s values. Notably, we don’t do any programming interviews as we believe they are low signal to noise and aren’t a good evaluation mechanism
- Recruiter Screen [30m]: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit
- System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end
- Hiring Manager Interview [30m]: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles
- System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical
Our take
With the growing need to combine data sources, along with the rise of cloud computing, demand for effective data integration tools and services has been on the rise. Hightouch provides a composable customer data platform to serve innovative marketers, alongside AI-powered tools for marketing.
Hightouch's platform helps marketers to build audiences and customer identities, collect and synch data, and analyse campaigns. LLM-based agents can be deployed to help streamline marketing, and the platform also supports AI decisioning. This comprehensive suite enables Hightouch to serve a range of businesses such as Spotify, Docusign, Warner Music Group, Grammarly and Autotrader.
Through development and acquisitions, such as of Workbase and Whatis, Hightouch has expanded steadily over the years. So long as it continues to enhance its capabilities and provide seamless data activation for its growing customer base, the company should have a bright future ahead of it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2026
$150m
SERIES D
Feb 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $322.4m
Company benefits
- Hub & Remote friendly: Join our global team, either remotely or in one of our four in-person hubs. For those near a hub, enjoy complimentary lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Flexible PTO: Downtime is just as important as on time and your teammates will support you while you relax and recharge
- Core benefits: For full-time US-based employees, we cover all health benefit premiums, 80% for dependents, and life insurance
- Parental leave: We value and support the family planning process. We provide up to 16 weeks for parents
- Professional development: We support employees for all learning resources needed to grow in their role (classes, books, conferences, etc)
- Connectivity: We offer a $50 per month cell-phone or wifi connectivity stipend to all employees
- Commuter: Commuter benefits of $50 are offered to both employees who come into the offices and to remote workers working outside of their home
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tejas Manohar
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)A Software Engineer with experience in lead roles at Lottery.com and Segment. Co-founded Hightouch in 2019.
Josh Curl
(CTO & Co-Founder)Significant Software Engineering experience at Rancher Labs and Segment. Co-founded Deviceplane in 2019 before co-founding Hightouch.
Kashish Gupta
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as a Product Manager for LYNK in 2016. Founded Mama's Cookin' in 2015 before co-founding Hightouch in 2019.
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