Software Engineer , Lightdash

£60-105k

0.5 - 1% equity

SQL

React

Docker

TypeScript

GCP

Node.js

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

More information about location

Agent BI platform for modern data teams

Job no longer available

Agent BI platform for modern data teams

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaSData Analysis

Job no longer available

£60-105k

0.5 - 1% equity

SQL

React

Docker

TypeScript

GCP

Node.js

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSaaSData Analysis

Company mission

To use AI to build and manage analytics so teams can focus on strategy while the business gets trusted, self-serve insights.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have experience or interest in building interactive products that teams love: you're excited about building the most user-friendly products for teams to take their raw data and turn it into insights
You appreciate good design (UI/UX) and are passionate about building products that people love to use
You're a fantastic communicator, especially in a remote team and are happy to continuously challenge existing ideas
You have experience or an interest in open source projects
You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture

What the job involves

Build and own features from start to finish: plan, build, test, deploy, iterate
Work in a small high performing team with a lot of collaboration and getting feedback directly from our users!
From time to time, we'll expect you to produce content or present to our community. We're big believers in engaging with our community as much as possible
Interacting with our users in the community (through Discourse, Twitter or Github) and reviewing their issues and using the feedback to prioritise our work
Having an ownership mindset: being comfortable with both responsibility and accountability

Application process

1. Apply via Otta
2. Initial video call
3. Technical interview with CTO
4. Culture fit interview
5. Interview with CEO

Our take

Lightdash was founded with the goal to help customers analyze their data by proposing relevant tests and thresholds to track, allowing users to customize queries by adding their own metrics. The platform currently supports most major data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery, with planms to keep broadening coverage.

Founders Hamzah Chaudhary and Oliver Laslett’s background as data scientists and software engineers gives them a significant advantage when developing a tool that aims to simplify the day-to-day for these types of employees. Lightdash tests the quality of the data directly from the customer’s data warehouse and reports any potential issue, allowing the client to visualize the results on a customised dashboard that requires no coding skills.

Crucially, Lightdash is open-source. That means it prioritizes integrations by default unlike Looker which, being owned by Google, has resulted in decreased interoperability with systems outside of GCP. On top of this, the company secured Series A funding in 2024, which is being used to roll out its AI Analyst product available on its cloud.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Oct 2024

$11m

SERIES A

Oct 2022

$6m

SEED

Total funding: $19.5m

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Lightdash on Hacker News

Why Lightdash is a big deal for BI

Lightdash takes on Looker

Lightdash raises $11M Series A led by Accel

Leadership

Hamzah Chaudhary

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Prior to co-founding Lightdash in 2021, Hamzah was a Faculty Advisor at Founders Academy. They also spent 3 years at Cytora as a Data Engineer, Product Manager and Director of Product Management.

Oliver Laslett

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Oliver previously worked at Stack More Layers as a Machine Learning Engineer. Prior to that, they spent nearly 4 years at Cytora as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Scientist.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lightdash

We're lucky to have access to a large network of people in tech. We provide underrepresented employees with the resources and intros they need to connect with external mentors in their group to provide support and promote growth
Being remote-first gives us the opportunity to "let folks have a life outside of work". We want that, and we understand that for certain groups of people, it's a requirement to be able to work from somewhere that isn't an office and have more flexible working hours.
We ask ourselves regularly if we're doing enough in hiring a diverse team. Then, we ask ourselves if we're doing enough to promote diversity once someone is part of the team. We talk openly about what we're doing to promote diversity. We want our team to be able to question our efforts and talk about what we can do to improve.

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