Head of Data, Howl
$200-250k
+ Stock Options
Social commerce platform
Job no longer available
Social commerce platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
+ Stock Options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reduce barriers for creators and brands to build social commerce businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Howl is looking to hire senior engineers at the senior to staff/principal level that are bar-raisers
- You are customer experience focused, a strategic contributor across design and product and you strive to build with craftsmanship at the forefront
- Substantial experience as a software engineer for consumer/customer facing apps
- Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. Python, GoLang, Java) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, Snowflake)
- Experience with web frameworks at scale (e.g Next.js, GraphQL)
- Dedication to keep up with new developments in tech
- Strong communication and organizational skills, motivation to achieve results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Strong design intuition led by building Hi-Fi customer experiences
What the job involves
- As an engineer, you'll have a direct impact on the customer experience for creators and brands alike. You will work on building the core interaction our clients have with the Howl platform
- These interactions include workflows like, helping creators and brands discover each other, building tools that allow creators to monetize their social content, get paid on time, and optimize for a brand’s performance marketing campaigns
- You'll also surface new workflows or existing ones that help optimize the usage and efficiency of our platform
- Provide technical and design leadership within an engineering team
- Master the code base, toolchain, and development processes
- Work with the product and design teams for scoping, design and implementation
- Design software components and subsystems for Howl's products or infrastructure and identify when we need to scale or move away from legacy systems
- Implement high-quality software components and subsystems with your team
- Write technical documents that imposes the logic and assumptions for decision making
- May serve as tech lead (player-coach) of an implementation team
- Drive implementation of automated testing for your components
- Contribute to refinement and enrichment of development tools and processes
- Participate in risk analysis and risk management exercises with engineering leadership
- One of the most frequent questions asked by candidates of Howl engineers is, “What is your tech stack?” This is a brief overview of our tech stack:
- Howl's systems are implemented as a modern microservices architecture running on Linux servers hosted in AWS. We use Kubernetes to manage our containers, we use Flask to construct our Web interfaces. We build interactivity in our web interfaces using React
- Our favorite programming languages are Python 3, Go, Elixir, and, on the frontend, TypeScript and JavaScript. We stash our code in GitHub
- We test each language with an appropriate unit testing tool - PyTest, Cypress, and Jasmine. We use Jenkins to run our builds and tests
- Check-ins against the main branch require a code review by another SWE
- We keep some data in Snowflake, some in Postgres and Elasticsearch and some, of course, in MySQL. We build our product graph using Neptune. We are working to reduce the number of databases we rely on
- We stream data around using Kafka, and Storm. Maybe we will prune/update this list sometime
- We are not hostile to commercial software - we use DBT, DataDog, Fivetran, Jira, LaunchDarkly, Looker, Notion
Our take
Advertising products via influencers has become a trillion-dollar industry. With the rise of social media, the push to mobile platforms, and the turn away from brick-and-mortar retailers, it’s now a crucial tool that both major and breakout brands leverage to great effect. Howl, an influencer marketing marketplace, may have appeared at exactly the right time and has the chance to win big from this development.
The Howl platform functions something like an Upwork for brands and influencers. Brands can list partnership opportunities on an open marketplace, whilst influencers will receive personalized recommendations, and have access to a dashboard where they can monitor sales and access easy and instant payment.
Formerly known as Narrativ, Howl benefits from a firmly established client base that includes major enterprise brands like HP, Sephora, and Samsung. With a firm foundation already laid down in this remarkably lucrative new sector, and fresh funding at its back, the company has a real chance to capture the market and find further success in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$27m
SERIES A
Aug 2019
$8m
SEED
Total funding: $39.1m
Company benefits
- Pay equity-focused compensation structure
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 80% coverage for dependents; with FSA and HSA compatibility
- 100% coverage of Teledoc services & One Medical memberships for employees and dependents
- Flexible PTO and 20 days paid Holidays
- WFH stipend
- Retirement planning - 401k through Empower
- Talkspace membership
- Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for all new parents
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Li Haslett Chen
(Founder & CEO)Previously a McKinsey Analyst who then moved into Marketing and Business with Moda Operandi. They have also spent time on the Board of American Express and Warner Bros.
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