Backend Software Engineer, Windfall
$160-215k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location.
People intelligence and AI company
Open for applications
People intelligence and AI company
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-215k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location.
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change how organizations perceive and use people data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience
- Professional backend software engineering experience
- Expert object-oriented programming understanding
- Experience using transactional databases
- Experience building distributed systems
- Understanding of web development & frontend communication
- You communicate as well as you code
- You can simplify complex problems into simple solutions
- You balance a strong sense of ownership and responsibility in your work with collaboration and team alignment
- You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on our application team at Windfall, you will be building the system for ingesting and processing our customer data. It is the “brains” of everything our customers interact with
- Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall and you will work closely with our product and our other engineering teams. You will personally design and build a scalable distributed system capable of supporting Windfall’s next phase of growth
- We’re on a mission to change how organizations perceive and use people data. And we hold true to our core values of: (1) Be an excellent communicator; (2) Operate with transparency; (3) Provide leverage, not optimization; (4) Make a difference every day; and (5) Act with integrity and trust
- Architect and build distributed services that will power Windfall’s customer facing applications
- Plan for scale in building solutions for today that will also set us up for future success and growth
- Work closely with other backend, frontend, and data engineers to build a seamless product for our customers
- Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for our various backend services
- Integrate and model complex customer data for powerful segmentation tools and enrichment workflows
- Some technologies you will use:
- Cloud platform - GCP
- Programming languages - Java, Kotlin
- Web framework - Spring Boot
- Messaging system - Google PubSub
- Data warehouse & databases - Postgres, BigQuery
- Kubernetes & Docker
Our take
Consumer financial data is notoriously inaccurate and many data brokers depend on census data, surveys, and zip codes, which are infrequently updated and can lead to false generalizations. This dependency on inaccurate information leads to costly financial mistakes for businesses.
With a focus on the affluent, Windfall delivers a precise net worth figure for individual households which is updated on a weekly basis. The platform collates accurate, up-to-date information from public and private domain records through partnerships with data vendors. It syncs with commonly used tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Shopify to power data-driven outreach to customers. And it's customer base includes hundreds of nonprofits as well as businesses across a wide range of industries looking to better target their own sales and marketing efforts.
Having raised significant funding, Windfall has gone on to enjoy impressive year-on-year growth. With this success, it intends to double down by expanding its sales and marketing reach and further developing its product, including its application to give go-to-market teams direct access to its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$65m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Retirement benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Long-term disability and life
- Paid time off
- Paid sick and volunteer days
- Paid parental leave
- Floating holidays
- Stock options
- Fully-stocked kitchen
- Pet-friendly office
- Remote-enabled
Company HQ
Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arup Banerjee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Arup began his career in investment banking and growth equity, before switching to product management after completing an MBA at Haas School of Business.
Daniel Stevens
(Co-Founder & COO)Daniel studied Economics, Spanish, Markets & Management at Duke University. He has a background in investment and advisory services banking. And was previously the Head of Business Operations at Radius Intelligence for 1 year.
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