Principal Backend Engineer, Flatfile
Node.js Expert
$200-225k
+ Equity
Data onboarding platform for customer data
Job no longer available
Data onboarding platform for customer data
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$200-225k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create beautiful, human-centric experiences to remove the barriers between people and data.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience in a production environment, with significant contributions to the design, architecture, and optimization of distributed systems
- Expertise in backend technologies, specifically Node, Postgres, and Redis
- Demonstrated capability to innovate and optimize at the system level
- Led all phases of software development, including ideation, product specification, prototyping, designing, and implementation. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work
- A proven track record of raising the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
- You don’t want to own decisions on how to approach technical problems and expect a lead or manager to make the final call. Our leads and managers provide feedback, but you will ship what you build and be accountable for it
- You refrain from engaging in or find it challenging to handle debates about the future state of products. We need someone who can have an opinion yet remain open-minded
- You prefer to avoid challenging the status quo or pushing the boundaries of technical possibilities, as this role demands continuous learning and adaptation to new technologies
- You’ve never worked in a fast-paced environment. We move quickly, and if you get frustrated when priorities change rapidly, we’re not the place for you
What the job involves
- This is an exciting role because it sits at the nexus of everything we’re doing at Flatfile
- Whether it’s leveraging AI to transform data, optimizing the performance of our data engine, or building new collaborative features into our workflow product, this role has a broad scope
- This role reports to: Jon Bell, VP of Product
- This role may be listed at other companies as: Distinguished Backend Engineer, Lead Backend Engineer, Senior Staff Backend Engineer
- In this role, you’ll use Node (Nest.js), Prisma, Postgres, Git, Flatfile’s homegrown data engine, and utilize AI for performance gains on a daily basis
- Design and build backend services that power our scaling data exchange platform
- Provide leadership and guidance to internal team members on the implementation of architecture and system designs
- Developing and enhancing complex data structures to support enterprise use cases
- Own feature delivery from solution design to product operation and iteration
- Implement strategies to minimize data mapping errors, improve data accuracy, and establish performance benchmarks to ensure exceptional system performance
- Improve usability through refined micro-interactions and interface design, as well as developing AI-powered features to assist users in managing, analyzing, and resolving data issues
- Share responsibility for responding to critical incidents as needed. Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build
- Contribute to, enable, and implement new AI models and features in partnership with our Applied AI team
- Fix bugs (of course)
Our take
Founded in 2018, Flatfile helps companies easily onboard, structure, and clean data across different inputs. This latter feature is Flatfile’s selling point for its target market: companies handling high-variance input, for example in the use of transactional data.
Flatfile's software radically streamlines what would otherwise be a labor-intensive formatting and validation process. With significant amounts of time and skilled labor routinely directed towards simple data-wrangling, and Flatfile's offerings can reportedly cut this expense by up to 95%.
The company has built strong momentum, growing its customer base to hundreds of companies globally, and helping to onboard and transform over 700 million rows of data for companies like Toast, HubSpot, ClickUp, and Blackbaud. It also released Flatfile Data Exchange Platform (flaunted as the industry’s first platform of its kind), which shows that it is continuing to innovate.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $94.7m
Company benefits
- Fully covered health, vision and dental plan options, including an FSA and Health Advocate employee assistance program
- Flexible schedules and unlimited time off
- Generous paid family leave - 12 weeks to bond with a newly born, adopted, fostered child, or care for a family member in need
- 401k matching - 100% matching for up to 3% and a 50% match for the next 2%
- Top-of-line hardware as appropriate to your role (e.g. monitors, a laptop, a keyboard, and headphones)
- Ergonomic equipment
- $10,000 home office makeover - if you have a space that you can fully dedicate to a Flatfile office, you’ll have a $10,000 budget and an interior designer to collaborate with to makeover your workspace, combining our company culture with your unique personality and tastes
- Wifi and cell phone stipend (up to $150 per month)
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
David Boskovic
(Founder & CEO)Previously the Platform Architect at Envoy, and CTO and co-founder of the startup Rainmaker.
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