Staff Software Engineer, Windfall
Data
$190-240k
+ Equity
Data intelligence company
Open for applications
Data intelligence company
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-240k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To change how organizations perceive and use people data.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive professional data engineering experience, with at least 2-3 years in a technical lead or senior-level role
- Exceptional understanding and practical application of object-oriented programming principles in a JVM language
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, high-performance data systems
- Experience at a sub-200 person company (or similar fast-paced startup environment)
- Expert SQL knowledge and experience with complex database operations
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of simplifying complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions
- A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for your work, coupled with excellent collaboration and team alignment skills
- A pragmatic approach to making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery, with a focus on business impact
Desirable
- Experience mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to team growth
- Demonstrated success in leading and delivering large-scale data projects from ideation through to production, including architectural decisions
- Proven experience leading greenfield data initiatives
- Deep understanding of the underlying principles and trade-offs of databases, data warehouses, and distributed computing frameworks, enabling optimal technology selection and system optimization
- Extensive working knowledge and hands-on experience with cloud-native data engineering infrastructure (GCP preferred)
What the job involves
- Windfall is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Data team. As a Staff Engineer on our data team, you will be building out the core data asset that everything else at Windfall is built on top of
- Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall, and you will work closely with our product, data science, and other engineering teams. You will personally design and build the pipelines for massive datasets, taking them all the way from inception to exploration to production and customer use
- 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
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of robust and scalable data pipelines to ingest and merge billions of individual entities into Windfall’s core data asset
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other data engineers, fostering a culture of best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate closely with data science, product, and other engineering teams to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver impactful data solutions
- Work closely with our data science team to enable the effective running of ML models on top of massive data points
- Architect and build supporting data services and applications to orchestrate, monitor, and ensure the reliability of our data systems
- Drive the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance our data infrastructure and processes
- Some technology you will use:
- Cloud platform - GCP
- Programming languages - Java, Python, and Kotlin
- Data warehouse & databases - BigQuery, Postgres
- Distributed processing frameworks - Dataflow (Apache Beam) and Apache Spark
- Orchestration - Airflow
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 generalisations. 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. Windfall's customer base includes hundreds of non-profits as well as businesses across a wide range of industries looking to better target their own sales and marketing efforts.
Having raised significant funding in 2021, Windfall has gone on to enjoy 100% year-on-year growth. In the immediate future it intends to double down on its success by expanding its sales and marketing reach and by 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
(CEO)Started his career in investment banking and growth equity, before switching to product management after completing an MBA at Haas School of Business.
Cory Tucker
(CTO)Spent 9+ years at Sun Microsystems and Guidewire in various software engineering roles, before moving to a Director of Engineering role at Radius Intelligence, a Big Data company.
Daniel Stevens
(COO)Studied Economics, Spanish, Markets & Management at Duke University. Background in investment and advisory services banking. Previously Head of Business Operations at Radius Intelligence for 1 year.
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