Backend Engineer, Windfall
$100-130k
Salary dependent on location
People intelligence and AI company
Job no longer available
People intelligence and AI company
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$100-130k
Salary dependent on location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change how organizations perceive and use people data.
Role
Who you are
- On-site in San FranciscoOn-site in San Francisco
- Bachelor's degree
- 3-4 years of experience
- Expert object-oriented programming understanding
- Experience using transactional databases
- Experience building distributed systems
- Understanding of web development & frontend communication
- You communicate as well as you code
- You can simplify complex problems into simple solutions
- You balance a strong sense of ownership and responsibility in your work with collaboration and team alignment
- You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery
Desirable
- Proven experience taking a large project from ideation to production
- Experience with greenfield projects
- Past surface knowledge of databases, data warehouses, distributed computing frameworks, etc. for optimization and leveraging correct technologies
- Working knowledge of cloud-native data engineering infrastructure
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on our application team at Windfall, you will be building the system for ingesting and processing our customer data. It is the “brains” of everything our customers interact with. Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall and you will work closely with our product and our other engineering teams
- You will personally design and build a scalable distributed system capable of supporting Windfall’s next phase of growth. At our offices in San Francisco and Denver, you’ll be working in close proximity to senior leadership that can provide you with a wealth of technical, product, and business knowledge to help you grow your career
- Architect and build distributed services which will power Windfall’s customer facing applications
- Plan for scale in building solutions for today that will also set us up for future success and growth
- Work closely with other backend, frontend, and data engineers to build a seamless product for our customers
- Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for our various backend services
Our take
Consumer financial data is notoriously inaccurate and many data brokers depend on census data, surveys, and zip codes, which are infrequently updated and can lead to false generalizations. This dependency on inaccurate information leads to costly financial mistakes for businesses.
With a focus on the affluent, Windfall delivers a precise net worth figure for individual households which is updated on a weekly basis. The platform collates accurate, up-to-date information from public and private domain records through partnerships with data vendors. It syncs with commonly used tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Shopify to power data-driven outreach to customers. And it's customer base includes hundreds of nonprofits as well as businesses across a wide range of industries looking to better target their own sales and marketing efforts.
Having raised significant funding, Windfall has gone on to enjoy impressive year-on-year growth. With this success, it intends to double down by expanding its sales and marketing reach and further developing its product, including its application to give go-to-market teams direct access to its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$65m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Retirement benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Long-term disability and life
- Paid time off
- Paid sick and volunteer days
- Paid parental leave
- Floating holidays
- Stock options
- Fully-stocked kitchen
- Pet-friendly office
- Remote-enabled
Company HQ
Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arup Banerjee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Arup began his career in investment banking and growth equity, before switching to product management after completing an MBA at Haas School of Business.
Daniel Stevens
(Co-Founder & COO)Daniel studied Economics, Spanish, Markets & Management at Duke University. He has a background in investment and advisory services banking. And was previously the Head of Business Operations at Radius Intelligence for 1 year.
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