Staff Data Platform Engineer, Bolt
One-click checkout solution for online payments
Open for applications
One-click checkout solution for online payments
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize commerce by setting a new standard for buying and selling online.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is excited when facing big challenges, thrives when given autonomy to figure out solutions and loves diving deep into complex systems
- 7+ years of experience with data infrastructure / distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of Python or Java programming languages
- Strong SQL background
- Experience with data technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Spark, DBT, Dataflow, Apache Beam, Ray, Pubsub, Cloud Functions, EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, etc
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Comfortable thinking about infrastructure as code
- Experience with Terraform or similar tools
Desirable
- Familiarity with BI tools Eg: Metabase, Tableau, Quicksight, etc
- Familiarity with eCommerce platforms Eg: BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopify, etc
- Experience working with ML & generative AI data pipelines
What the job involves
- The Data Platforms team is responsible for collecting, organizing, and analyzing all the data that is collected as the result of users interacting with our system with the goal of building machine learning and data science products to improve user experience and merchant operations as well as monitoring the well being of our systems overall
- Bolt is looking for data engineers and backend software engineers for the data platforms team
- You will be working closely with all teams and cross-functional partners (including product, engineering, and data analytics) to build and improve our foundational data stack powering business analytics, machine learning, recommendations, etc
- You will be responsible for creating a strategy for data ownership at Bolt and help define the data architecture, data model, and pipelines to drive understanding of Bolt’s business
- Participate in creating and executing a roadmap for all things data infrastructure
- Build scalable systems that effectively store and process tons of data
- Work with cross-functional partners (product, infra, security, analysts) to power data-driven products
- Create fault-tolerant, timely, and optimized pipelines for data ingestion powering the company’s business analytics. Evangelize best practices with the engineering, infra, analyst teams for building data models, pipelines, and materialized views. Standardize access to data across teams, and build tooling to reuse queries
- Partner with our AI/ML team to make it easier to do feature engineering and build a reliable data stack to power Bolt’s AI/ML products
- Own data reliability and help assess and determine which warehousing technologies to use, when to move data between data stores, and help productionize models
- Tech Stack:
- GCP data pipelines and warehousing (PubSub, DataFlow, BigQuery) along with some AWS data pipelines
- DBT, DataFlow, PySpark and BigQuery for data processing
- Terraform for maintaining infra
- Jenkins & CircleCI for build pipelines
- Postgres RDS is our application database
- Our code base is primarily in Golang, Python & Typescript
Our take
Designed to replace existing checkout models and make buying on any device easy and safe, Bolt provides a one-click checkout solution. Its online shopping software is utilized by companies like Brooks Brothers and Forever 21. As well as supporting all major card providers and alternative payment methods like PayPal, customers also don't need a username or password. This reduces cart abandonment and increases merchant conversion rates.
The company has seen impressive growth, annually processing more than $1 billion in retail transactions across its 300+ retailers. While Bolt has won the race against Google, who tried, and failed with Google Checkout, there are other 'one-click' competitors to watch out for, including Square, who has over 30 million monthly active users.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$355m
SERIES E
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $963m
Company benefits
- Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
- Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
- Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off
Company values
- Win-Win Partnerships - Bolt thinks critically about culture. They’re not just a list of values on the wall, they’re instilled into our everyday practices. We create an environment where the best ideas win, not the loudest voices in the room
- Writing > Talking - We value writing over talking, it promotes systematic thought and reasoned arguments; creates a results-oriented mindset, removes the influence of the loudest voices in the room, and fosters collaboration across the organization
- Live Curiously - We believe a learning and growth mindset is how we evolve and grow as a business and as individuals. At its core, a growth mindset requires curiosity, humility, and openness to giving and receiving feedback from everyone we work with
- Founder Mentality - We embrace the founder mentality — that means approaching every problem as if we owned the company (because we do), having a bias for action, and doing everything possible to achieve our goals
- United + Unique - Our team is united by many shared values (hunger to solve hard problems, passion for our mission, thoughtfulness, etc). But we also value the strength that comes when we acknowledge, respect, and embrace our unique histories, skills, and experiences. And, we firmly believe that we win when we are united in our differences
- Be 20% Wrong, Chase 10X - We move fast, take risks, and chase big outcomes wherever possible. We act fearlessly, take action without waiting for consensus, experiment, fail (and learn from it) and try again
Company HQ
Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ryan Breslow
(Chairman)They studied Computer Science at Stanford before working as a Stanford-StartX Coach for 4 years and founding Bolt in 2015. Stepped down as CEO to assume the role of Chairman. They found the company Love in Jan 2022.
Maju Kuruvilla
(CEO, not founder)Extensive history in software engineering. Former VP of Amazon. Took on the role of CPTO at Bolt before subsequently going on to become the company CEO.
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