Senior Software Engineer, Alloy
Backend
$130-165k
3+ days a week in office
Digital supply chain management
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Digital supply chain management
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-165k
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies operate more responsive and efficient supply chains that intelligently adjust to consumer demand.
Role
Who you are
- If algorithms, simulations, query engines, performance, and scalability sound like areas you're curious to explore, we think you'll love it here!
- You’re a problem-solver who enjoys diving deep into algorithms, data structures, and software architecture
- You have prior experience in designing systems and enjoy tackling complex problems with simple, elegant and scalable solutions
- You're highly collaborative and highly value transparency and open communication
- You consider some of the key tools for an engineer to be code reviews, authoring design documents and reviewing those of others
- You're comfortable with multiple programming languages and paradigms and curious to learn more
- You thrive in a flat organization, appreciate transparency and actively pursue new ideas
- A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer science, statistics, mathematics) or a equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with a focus on designing and building complex systems or query engines
- Proven experience with one or more of the following database and data warehouse technologies: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies
- Strong proficiency in a JVM-based language (e.g., Java, Scala, Kotlin). Experience with Python or TypeScript is a plus
- A solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and computational mathematics. Experience with designing efficient data processing systems is a big plus
- Experience with cloud platforms and distributed systems, and familiarity with the challenges of building scalable data systems in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure environments
- You have experience or are interested in learning how the global supply chain works, from retail sales and inventory data to tracking of orders and shipments
- You have a genuine desire to help and work with other engineers via mentorship, pairing, and code reviews
- You are a clear communicator both verbally and written with a knack for translating technical details to non-technical audiences
- You have a “growth mindset” and tolerance for ambiguity; you don’t easily give up and always try to iterate to excellence
- You’re excited about researching and using a wide range of technologies, ultimately focused on finding the right tool for the job
- You care deeply about best practices for code quality, automation, and testing
What the job involves
- We're looking for backend engineers with a focus on our data platform and our computation engine backend
- There are many exciting and complex challenges ranging from aggregating complex data sets, modelling the supply chain, to computing inventory recommendations and producing other actionable insights for our customers
- Design, develop, and optimize Alloy.ai’s computation engine and data platform backend, enabling critical functionalities such as forecasting, simulations, recommendations, and real-time analytics
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to ensure our data platform’s query engine integrates seamlessly with other components and scales effectively
- Lead architectural design of complex software solutions, ensuring our platform stays efficient, robust, and scalable as we grow
- Work closely with the Product team to translate customer needs into highly performant, maintainable, and flexible solutions
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in best practices for software design, development, and system optimization
- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in query engine technologies, databases, and cloud platforms, and bring new ideas and tools to the team
- Flex into other areas of application development based on our roadmap priorities
- Contribute to Alloy.ai’s R&D roadmap by bringing your ideas into our product development cycle
Our take
Consumer demand is changing rapidly, particularly for e-commerce brands, and customer expectations are rising. The ability to swiftly identify and meet these demands is a competitive necessity. Alloy is a digital-native company helping brands monitor and analyse sales and inventory, to leverage sales insights and scrub out inefficiencies in their supply chain.
The cloud-based aspect of Alloy is likely to prove attractive to companies increasingly working with large-scale data buckets, a service that harnesses the power of data at a macro and micro level is both future-looking and profit-promising. To date, this has secured Alloy some impressive clients, including Facebook, Bosch and Ferrero.
The company is explicit about its engineer-oriented company structure, and this is likely to have contributed significantly to its swift innovation. Alloy now has a raft of products and successful investment under their belt, and if it can capitalize on the increased demand for detailed and real-time data it could stand to continue making real headway.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2018
$12m
SERIES A
Mar 2016
$3.3m
SEED
Total funding: $15.3m
Company benefits
- Lexible leave, with a culture focused on output, not hours worked
- Equity compensation
- Competitive health insurance
- Parental leave
- Professional development budget
- Travel budget
- Social events
Company values
- Focus on what matters
- Take ownership
- Communicate openly and respectfully
- Iterate to excellence
- Have each other's backs
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Joel Beal
(CEO)Former vice-president at Addepar and Engagement manager at Applied Predictive Technologies with M.A in Economics from Stanford.
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