Senior Software Engineer, People Data Labs
Full Stack
$160-180k
+ Stock
B2B data provider for industry leading platforms
Open for applications
B2B data provider for industry leading platforms
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
+ Stock
21-100 employees
Company mission
To do the heavy lifting of fata collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a “one-team, one-dream” mindset
- We like our engineers to be thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as we continue to learn and grow from it
- 5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementation
- Strong software development fundamentals
- Experience working in systems where you’ve had to engage with existing implementation patterns and evolve them over time
- 4+ years of experience with React.js with Typescript
- Experience with Next.js (or other React.js frontend frameworks)
- Experience with Vercel (Nice to have)
- Experience with frontend testing frameworks and practices
- High attention to detail coupled with a strong understanding of CSS fundamentals; experience using Tailwind CSS
- Experience refining designs with UI/UX designers and while meaningfully contributing to the design and asserting a customer-centric perspective
- Experience building and maintaining a UI component library
- Experience working with Figma or similar UX design tools
- Experience with page-load and interaction performance
- 3+ years of experience with Python in a production environment
- REST API design and backends such as Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Rails or similar (note: we are a Python shop primarily)
- SQL and SQL stores, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar
- Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work independently
- It’s no sweat to scope, breakdown, and estimate projects effectively with a solid track record of delivery
- You communicate progress and blockers effectively with your manager, team, and stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents
- You collaborate well across engineering, design, and product management
- Experienced in writing technical design docs and translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- Ensure and develop solid code quality and development practices and standards within the team
What the job involves
- Our customers are trying to solve complex problems, and we only help them achieve their goals as a team. Our Delivery and API Team ensures our customers have access to standardized and high-quality data to build upon
- You will be crucial in accelerating our efforts to build standalone data products that enable data teams and independent developers to create innovative solutions at massive scale. In this role, you will be working with a team to continuously improve our existing APIs and delivery methods, as well as creating new ones
- If you are looking to be part of a team discovering the next frontier of data-as-a-service (DaaS) with a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions, this might be the role for you
- Drive our self-serve product offerings to bring prospective customers into our products and grow new revenue
- Drive the core tools that our customer success team uses to support our customers
- Understand and translate our business requirements into the systems that support our core business activities
- Proactively work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business operations and system design
- Design and update our systems using good design patterns on both frontend and backend, which allow for extensibility and evolution as our business evolves
- Ensure the integrity (correctness and accuracy) of data captured around key business activities so that we have a reliable source of truth on our operations
- Build and maintain our frontend components, design, and architecture
- Ensure the quality and reliability of frontend surfaces presented to users and the accuracy and effectiveness of the application stack supporting those surfaces
Our take
The increasing appetite of businesses to gain a competitive advantage over the competition from the use of data, coupled with the challenges of managing an increasingly complex and heterogeneous data landscape, has created the right conditions for the DaaS market to grow rapidly.
People Data Labs builds APIs that enable developers, engineers, and data scientists to build data-driven products using B2B data records. Their data powers internal and customer-facing digital products that can drive revenue and increase efficiency, and is used by enterprise businesses as well as tech start-ups. Their clients include Kleiner Perkins, BreezyHR, SugarCRM, 6Sense, Lunchclub, and Gem.
People Data Labs is focused on hiring engineering and product professionals as part of an ongoing push into critical verticals. This includes offerings in the fintech space, where they plan to expand their data products to support fraud detection, risk mitigation, and insurance underwriting. The company also plan to expand their offerings in firmographic data via insights and company data products for investment research, sales planning, and investor due diligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Oct 2018
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.3m
Company benefits
- Stock
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- Health, fitness, and office stipends
- The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ben Eisenberg
(CEO)Ben joined PDL in 2017 as a Technical Analyst, since then he has held a number of roles and became CEO in 2024.
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