Senior Software Engineer, Narvar
CA$180-230k
Plus annual bonus and equity
More information about location
Customer experience platform that helps retailers inspire long-term customer loyalty
Be an early applicant
Customer experience platform that helps retailers inspire long-term customer loyalty
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$180-230k
Plus annual bonus and equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower retailers to engage consumers, optimize operations, and drive business growth through data-driven, personalized post-purchase experiences.
Role
Who you are
- We care about judgment and ownership over credentials
- Have 5–8 years of experience building and operating production data systems
- Have strong SQL skills and are proficient in Python, with flexibility to pick up other languages as needed. Comfortable building and maintaining APIs
- Have worked with modern data stacks on cloud platforms (GCP preferred, but AWS or Azure transfers well), including cloud data warehouses like BigQuery, ELT patterns, and orchestration with Airflow
- Understand data modeling deeply — dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, incremental processing
- Treat data quality, lineage, and observability as first-class engineering concerns
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and are comfortable working cross-functionally
- Already use AI and agentic coding tools as a core part of how you work for planning, code generation, debugging, and code review
Desirable
- You’ve worked in startup or high-ownership environments where you wore multiple hats
- You’ve built or maintained embedded analytics or multi-tenant data products
- You’re excited about making data accessible to AI systems, whether that’s through better metadata, semantic layers, or preparing datasets for agentic workflows
- You care about cost optimization and data governance
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data to own and evolve the pipelines, platforms, and data products that power Narvar’s analytics, ML, and merchant-facing products
- You’ll work across the full stack of our data infrastructure, from ingestion and transformation to the analytics surfaces our merchants use every day
- You’ll make architectural decisions, ship production systems at scale, and we expect you to work in an AI-native way, using agentic coding tools to increase your leverage and ship faster
- Design, build, and operate data pipelines that process terabytes of transactional data daily using Airflow/Composer and BigQuery
- Own end-to-end data models and transformations that power merchant analytics, operational reporting, and ML features
- Build and maintain embedded analytics infrastructure — the data products our merchants interact with directly
- Evolve our data platform on GCP, including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and CDC datastreams
- Improve data quality and reliability through testing, observability, alerting, and validation frameworks
- Own data lineage, metadata, and documentation, and help prepare our data layer for agentic and LLM-powered use cases with semantic clarity and standardized metric definitions
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, ML, and GTM teams, and contribute to technical direction through design docs and architecture decisions
Our take
The process that retailers go through to deliver products to customers is becoming increasingly complicated due to convoluted shipping networks and a global customer base. This means customer experience suffers as retailers must offer an overwhelming range of delivery options. Narvar aims to improve this situation with an integrated delivery and returns platform for retailers, providing analytics on client data to the retailer and optimizes shipping channels for customers.
Narvar is a market leader in this sector, active in almost every country and territory worldwide and having made more than 2B shipments since its founding in 2012. Its post-purchase customer experience platform is used by over 1,500 companies including household name retailers such as Sephora, GAP and Levis, among many others.
Narvar has secured many strategic partnerships such as linking up with Rise.ai, a leading gift card and store credit platform. This allows stores to simplify returns by enabling merchants to issue Rise's store credit as part of the returns process. While Narvar is currently focused on retailers providing shipping solutions for their customers, the company plans to expand to offer a B2B product in the near future.
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Insights
-17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Jun 2016
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64m
Company benefits
- Grow and thrive: Feel empowered to take responsibility and ownership. Gain valuable mentorship, grow professional, and expand your skill set.
- Recharge and be well: Our benefits are designed with you in mind, offering comprehensive health, vision, and dental plans, generous parental leave, and flexible time off to support your well-being.
- Hybrid work: We consider the San Francisco Bay Area home, but the Narvar family extends across the globe to cities like Atlanta, New York, Bangalore, and London.
- Stay connected: Connect with fellow Narvarians who share your passions -from fitness tips to whisky club and everything in between. Celebrate big wins and everyday moments through regional and global company gatherings.
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Amit Sharma
(Founder)Amit is a hands-on executive with expertise in multi-channel retail and supply chain operations. They have over 18 years of industry experience and their thought leadership in shipping and delivery is still reverberating through the halls of Apple and Walmart.
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