Full Stack Engineer, Lightdash
Customer Engineering
£80-130k
0.1% – 0.3% Equity
Open source alternative to Looker
Open for applications
Open source alternative to Looker
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£80-130k
0.1% – 0.3% Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
Enabling everyone to answer their own data questions.
Role
Who you are
- You're a rare hybrid; a top-tier engineer who thrives when working directly with customers
- You understand that great products come from deeply understanding user needs, and you excel at translating those insights into technical solutions
- Customer-obsessed engineer: You're energized by solving real customer problems and can translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Full-stack expertise: You're comfortable across our entire tech stack (TypeScript, React, Node, SQL) and can build complete solutions independently
- Growth mindset: You understand user onboarding, activation, and retention mechanics
- Domain knowledge: You have experience or strong interest in data analytics/BI tools and workflows
- Communication superpower: You excel at remote collaboration and can effectively gather feedback from customer interactions
- Strategic thinking: You can identify patterns across customer needs that inform product direction
- Execution focus: You ship high-quality solutions quickly, prioritizing customer impact over perfection
What the job involves
- As part of our newly launched Customer Engineering team, you'll work directly with our most valuable customers while driving technical solutions that transform how data teams work
- Own the technical relationship with our most strategic customers
- Quickly prototype and build solutions to address customer pain points
- Translate customer feedback into product improvements that benefit all users
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams to prioritize customer-driven initiatives
- Contribute directly to our open-source codebase
- Help shape our customer engineering practice from the ground up
- Represent the customer voice in product planning and company strategy
Our take
Lightdash was founded with the goal to help customers analyse their data by proposing relevant tests and thresholds to track, allowing users to customise queries by adding their own metrics. The platform currently supports most major data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery, with the plan 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 visualise the results on a customised dashboard that requires no coding skills.
Crucially, Lightdash is open-source. That means it prioritises integrations by default unlike Looker which, being owned by Google, has resulted in decreased interoperability with systems outside of GCP. Series A funding awarded in 2024 will be used to roll out its AI Analyst product available on its cloud.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$11m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $19.5m
Company benefits
- Salary - We're competitive with compensation!
- Equity - We provide meaningful equity to all team members so you own a part of the company
- Remote-first culture - We’re fully remote from anywhere +/- 3 hours from UK time. Choose to work from wherever you want, whenever you want.
- Team meetups - We organise regular team meetups around the world (We’re aiming to do at least 4 per year!). It’s a time for everyone to get to know each other, have those strategy sessions that just work better in person and bond as a team
- Time off - We have unlimited vacation days per year. But, at the minimum, we require that you take the standard number of vacation days + public holidays (28 days). We believe that taking breaks is important for our team to be the most effective!
- Set up - As well as a shiny new Macbook Pro, we'll cover any equipment you need and your work from home setup too. Prefer working in a co-working space? Sure thing!
- Learning and development - Personal development budget for whatever helps you be your best
Company values
- We build in public | Our community helps us build a better Lightdash
- We believe in autonomy | Only the best ideas win here.
- We are remote-first | Our culture is built around this.
- We love open source! | We believe it will play a massive part in the future of data tools.
- We bias towards impact | We’d rather build something to 80% and get it in front of users so we can iterate fast!
- We have incredible support | From our community to top investors & angels including Y Combinator.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Hamzah Chaudhary
(CEO & Co-Founder)Software Engineer turned Product Manager. previously worked at Cytora as the director of Product Management. Also worked briefly at McKinsey and Deloitte.
Oliver Laslett
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously Data Scientist and Machine Learning Scientist at Cytora. PhD in computational physics
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