Senior Data Platform Engineer, Extend
Enterprise Merchant Integrations
$155-170k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Warranty and protection plan services
Open for applications
Warranty and protection plan services
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$155-170k
+ Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revive an industry that's been starved of modernity and change for too long.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6 years in Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a closely related field
- Deep AWS serverless experience: Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, Step Functions
- Hands-on experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, EventBridge, SNS) and fluency in Python and TypeScript
- Experience building and hardening large-scale data platforms and integrations, including the defensive, correctness-focused engineering that keeps external data boundaries reliable
- Experience building platforms and tooling that other engineers build on, beyond end-user features
- Comfort with data at rest and in motion: delivering clean data into a warehouse (Snowflake or similar) or data lake, and building reconciliation against it
- An ownership mentality. You identify problems early and drive work to completion without step-by-step guidance
- Mentorship experience, with a humble, collaborative approach
- Bonus: experience designing clear, actionable error surfaces or reporting for external or non-technical consumers
What the job involves
- Extend is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help build and mature our merchant integration platform. Every merchant sends us data differently, with its own schemas, formats, and delivery mechanisms, and this platform turns that variety into clean, consistent, trustworthy data our downstream systems rely on
- You’ll join the team that owns and supports the merchant integration platform. Internal partner teams use the platform to onboard enterprise merchants, so you will build the capabilities they depend on and take on the hardest integration and reliability work yourself. The work blends Solutions, Data, and Platform Engineering on an AWS serverless stack with a production event-driven backbone we’re actively expanding
- Build anti-corruption layers. Design the mapping and transformation systems that isolate each merchant’s uniqueness so downstream data stays consistent, delivered as reusable platform capabilities others build on
- Make onboarding faster and safer. Build the tooling and standards that let partner teams onboard merchants quickly, support merchant migrations onto current platform capabilities, and take on the complex integrations yourself
- Build out merchant-facing error reporting. Build on our failure-capture and file-return capabilities to deliver a framework that turns validation and processing errors into clear, actionable reports for data providers and the engineers operating the integration
- Engineer resilient data boundaries. Build the validation, reconciliation, and automated failure-triage that catch bad data early and prevent silent data loss, backed by alerting that teams trust
- Expand our event-driven architecture. Extend our production backbone (Kafka, EventBridge, SNS), decoupling more Step Functions and SQS orchestration and adding lifecycle webhooks for service and order events
- Own reliability end-to-end. Own your work from design through production, including the monitoring, observability, data-quality checks, and reconciliation that prove it works as designed
- Mentor and lead by example. Raise the bar through the work you ship and help shape the integration standards the whole team builds against
Our take
Extend allows online and offline merchants to offer product warranties and protection plans at the point of sale. It aims to provide a comprehensive and centralized warranty system where before there was not one. The company also provides customers themselves with a fast support experience, where 95% of claims are resolved in just 90 seconds.
Its API based platform is integrated into the likes of Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and BigCommerce, and can also be integrated into private client-owned e-commerce platforms. This ease of use is what makes Extend so appealing for clients.
On top of this, its seen good funding thats fuelled business growth and geographical expansion. It’s interesting to note that PayPal Ventures and SoftBank are two of their main backers, as this indicates that payment giants see the value of these point of sale transactions. And in 2022, it was named a certified partner of Shopify and reached an important milestone in becoming a full-service company, taking it one step closer to its vision of becoming the "AppleCare for everything".
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Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$260m
SERIES C
Oct 2020
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $316.4m
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Woodrow Levin
(Founder & CEO)Woodrow started his career by founding InStadium in 2000, where he spent 7 years before also founding Riverbank Capital and BringIt. After further roles at DocuSign and DraftKings, he founded Extend in February 2019, serving since then as CEO.
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