Technical Founders Associate, Polar Analytics
Software Engineer, Data & AI
Multi-channel analytics software
Open for applications
Multi-channel analytics software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower the indie DTC brands world wide to grow faster and more profitably!
Role
Who you are
- Hungry and business-oriented. You care about the customer's P&L, not just whether the code is elegant. You can hold a conversation with a CMO about paid media efficiency and then go write the pipeline
- Very organized. You run your own week. Nothing dropped, nothing forgotten, no one chasing you for status
- Sharp. You get to the actual problem fast, and you're comfortable saying "this is the wrong thing to build" to someone senior
- You get things done and you give a shit. That's the whole bar. Everything else is learnable
- Strong CS/engineering fundamentals — Javascript and SQL at minimum. Real experience with LLMs/agents is a big plus; obsessive curiosity about them is mandatory
- You use AI (Claude Code, Cursor, etc) heavily, or you'll be up to speed in a week
- Excellent written and spoken English. French is a bonus, not a requirement
- Who this is not for: people who want a well-defined backlog, clear scope, and no customer contact. "Not my scope" doesn't exist in this role
- If you’re looking for more impact and responsibility than your current role offers, apply below :)
What the job involves
- We’re building the data & AI operating system for eCommerce, think Datadog for retail
- We ingest messy Shopify, ads, and retention data, make it reliable, and turn it into decisions teams can actually trust
- We’re hiring engineers who want real ownership
- Deploy AI agents with customers, end to end. Scope the workflow, build it, get it into production, measure whether it actually removed cost or created revenue
- Talk to customers directly. Weekly calls, Slack channels, on-site when it matters. You'll own relationships, not just tickets
- Build on core systems. Data pipelines, semantic layer, RAG, evaluation harnesses, experimentation. Petabyte scale, near real-time, high reliability
- Turn one deployment into a product. Every custom agent you build should make the next ten easier. You'll decide what gets promoted from bespoke to platform
- Work directly with the CTO on whatever is most important that week — pre-sales technical calls, architecture decisions, a broken pipeline at 9pm, a pricing model for a new agent
Application process
- We believe the best people want to go through a demanding process. We've learned the hard way that great interviewers aren't always great operators - so our process is designed to see how you think, not how you present
- 1. Motivation screen - A quick call to understand what drives you and whether there's mutual fit
- 2. Live case study - A real scenario where you work through a problem in real time. No prep decks, no take-homes. We want to see how you actually operate
- 3. Leadership conversations - Meet the team, understand the culture, make sure this is somewhere you want to build
- Our hiring bar: if this person started a company, would we want to join them?
Our take
In order for independent brands to grow within the digital market, marketing teams must rely on efficient analysis of eCommerce data, so they are able to compete against major enterprises. Polar Analytics has developed a data centralising platform that enables Shopify marketers to integrate and analyse complex data into one easy-to-use interface.
With a range of subscription-based offerings, the company is trusted by over 1,700+ Shopify brands, including Hero Cosmetics, Soko Glam, and AYBL. Its comprehensive dashboard enables brands to make quick decisions, fuelled by actionable marketing insights delivered by its full-stack business intelligence solution.
The Kima Ventures-backed company remains focused on further application development and expanding its workforce. Though the company’s platform integrates solely within the Shopify ecosystem, it is looking to expand its reach to encompass all eCommerce CMS's on the market. With this, Polar Analytics has plenty of growth opportunities as it continues to expand on a global scale.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2024
$19.2m
SERIES A
Jul 2023
$9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29.6m
Company benefits
- Work Where You Thrive: We believe in Choice First working—your results matter more than your location. Work from anywhere, in a way that fits your life
- Trust, Transparency & Ownership: Our culture is built on empowerment—we give you the context and trust to take full ownership of your work. No micromanagement. Just impact
- Make a Real Difference: At Polar, your work fuels the success of thousands of eCommerce brands. You’ll build, experiment, and scale with a team that’s redefining data for the next generation of retail
Company HQ
Passy, Paris, France
Leadership
David Dokes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Founded The Growth Team and The Family - London Collective. They also spent 3 years at Turo in a number of roles, including PM and Growth Lead.
Charbel Seif
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Data Scientist at Airbnb and Warner Bros. Entertainment, and a Growth Engineer at Turo.
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