Frontend Software Engineer, Chalk
$120-220k
5 days a week in office
Data platform for machine learning
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Data platform for machine learning
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-220k
5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build data infrastructure to answer the world’s hardest questions.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years experience of professional software engineering experience
- Working knowledge of computer science fundamentals. We’re not looking for experience from drilling leet code – we need folks who are comfortable building and maintaining real applications
- You have a deep technical understanding of frontend technologies, patterns, and best practices. You have a firm understanding of backend systems which enable you to collaborate on problems that span the entire stack
- An eye for high-quality UX
- Track record of learning new concepts quickly
- Ability to work autonomously & to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes
- Strong communication skills
Desirable
- Experience implementing data infrastructure
- Experience working with developer tools
- Experience with applied machine learning or data analytics
- Experience with Go
What the job involves
- We are hiring experienced Frontend Software Engineers to join our team
- In this role, you will be responsible for defining strong front-end architecture patterns, leading development of well abstracted reusable components, and collaborating across teams to increase developer velocity
- You will excel in this role if you’re an experienced engineer with deep front-end expertise who can collaborate effectively across multiple teams and functions to deliver results
- This is an opportunity to join us in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up
- You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership
- We are looking for software engineers who are comfortable solving business problems across all layers of the software stack, with a specific focus on frontend engineering
- At Chalk, we build reliable data processing systems that can operate performantly at scale with a laser-focus on developer experience
- We need engineers who can build world-class user experiences across web and command-line surfaces, while also understanding and contributing to a codebase that contains ideas from compilers, query planners, and distributed systems
- Work directly with Chalk’s co-founders to productionize our first iteration
- Write TypeScript (React), Python, Go
- Drive frontend architecture discussions and technical breakdowns
- Expose the functionality of our core platform to data scientist and machine learning end-users in their home environments
- Iterate rapidly to improve Chalk’s platform in response to customer needs
Our take
The applications of AI and machine learning are undeniable and vast. However, much of its existing infrastructure was built to support large and lengthy jobs, opposed to the real-time decisions required for the technology to be useful to sectors such as fintech, eCommerce, healthcare and insurance.
This is where Chalk steps in, supplying backbone infrastructure to support real-time AI and ML applications. Its data platform includes features such as a compute engine, an LLM toolchain and integrated monitoring - with applications including anti-fraud, risk assessment and predictive maintenance. Importantly, any data source can be integrated with the platform, meaning the real-time decisions can be made with real-time data.
Its certainly an intriguing proposal, and one that has seen the company net $10 million in seed funding. This investment will be used to accelerate development of the platform, as well as reach new customers and grow Chalk's engineering and go-to-market teams.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$50m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $60m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Freed-Finnegan
(Co-founder & CEO)Former Product Lead (Merchant Journey) at Stripe. Co-founded and was CEO of Index, which was acquire by Stripe. Worked at Google for 5 years, ultimately as Product Lead for Google Wallet.
Elliot Marx
(Co-founder)Former Engineering Manager at Credit Karma. Co-founded and was CEO at Haven Money, that was acquired by Credit Karma. Was also a Software Engineer at Affirm and at Palantir Technologies.
Andrew Moreland
(Co-founder)Worked in Engineering at Credit Karma. Co-founded and was CTO at Haven Money, that was acquired by Credit Karma. Was also a Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies.
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