Front End Engineer, Alation

$120.6-162.8k

React

TypeScript

Sketch

Python

Django

Figma

FastAPI

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2+ days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)

Enterprise data intelligence solutions

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Enterprise data intelligence solutions

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

$120.6-162.8k

React

TypeScript

Sketch

Python

Django

Figma

FastAPI

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2+ days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceMachine Learning

Company mission

To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

2+ years of related experience in a startup or rapidly growing/ evolving business
B.S. in Computer Science or related field (M.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred)
Professional front-end experience prototyping and developing performant and scalable web applications with modern React (e.g. ES7, React hooks, TypeScript)
Comfort working across UI/UX—from wireframes and prototypes to polished interfaces (using tools like Figma or Sketch)
Clear technical communication, curiosity, and a strong sense of ownership

Desirable

Experience building B2B SaaS products, especially in data, analytics, or ML-focused platforms
Exposure to backend technologies such as Python, FastAPI or Django, and relational databases

What the job involves

We're looking for a Front-End Engineer (Software Engineer II) who's excited to grow their craft, deliver real results, and contribute to a mission-driven product
In this role, you’ll be part of a small, dynamic team designing and building agentic AI applications powered by Alation's industry-leading data intelligence platform. You'll work directly with AI experts, working in short iterations, making applications available across multiple departments, and seeing your work make a real impact
This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, including state-of-the-art foundation models and the latest advancements in AI agent development with solutions deployed across many companies
Build, iterate, optimize, and maintain user-facing features for Alation’s technology using TypeScript and modern React (hooks, ES7+)
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver intuitive, high-quality user experiences
Build proactively with empathy for our customers, constantly iterating to balance innovative research with practical solutions
Collaborate with engineers to bring consistency and high standards to codebases, infrastructure, and processes

Our take

While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.

Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.

With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.

It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Nov 2022

$123m

SERIES E

Jun 2021

$110m

SERIES D

Total funding: $315m

Company benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short-term disability
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Personal sick days
Parental leave
Competitive Pay
Company equity
Performance bonus
Flexible work hours
Remote work opportunities
Commuter benefits program
401(k)

Company HQ

Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA

Leadership

Satyen Sangani

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.

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