Frontend Software Engineer, MotherDuck
$140-240k
+ Offers Equity
Data analytics platform
Open for applications
Data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$140-240k
+ Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in software development, with a focus on frontend development
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with frameworks like React
- Strong aesthetic and interaction instincts—both for end-user experience and internal component APIs
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams with designers, PMs, and engineers
- A generalist mindset—you’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions without perfect information, and working across the stack when needed
- Experience working on developer tools, BI tools, notebooks, or data visualization products
- Familiarity with the JavaScript/TypeScript tooling ecosystem (Vite, esbuild, etc.)
- Experience developing UI component libraries and sweating the details of animations, interactions, and pixel-perfect implementation
- Background working with SQL, data warehouses, or analytics platforms
- A passion for the craft of frontend—bringing joy, clarity, and power to users through great UX
What the job involves
- The UI engineers at MotherDuck build a best-in-class user experience for standard data warehouse operations and SQL querying
- Our team has delivered features that users love, including the Column Explorer for visualizing distributions across any table or result set, and Instant SQL with real-time result previews
- You'll contribute to this vision, working on everything from the data warehouse service layer to high-finesse features that simplify data analysis
- As a member of the team, you’ll work closely with design, product, and our platform and databases teams to build intuitive, performant, and polished user experiences that help people go from data to insight without friction
- You’ll also play a key role in defining the development culture and standards as we scale the team and the product
- This is a hybrid role that can be based in our Seattle or San Francisco hubs
- Build delightful interfaces: Design and implement beautiful, performant, and accessible UIs that make working with data feel like magic
- Own user experience: Work closely with designers and researchers to understand real-world user problems and ship features that meet them with empathy and creativity
- Collaborate deeply: Partner with backend engineers, PMs, and fellow frontend developers to bring new experiences to life—across data exploration, visualization, collaboration, and more
- Craft quality code: Write clean, reusable, and well-tested code
- Help evolve our component library, design system, and development patterns
- Prototype with speed: Rapidly explore new ideas through prototypes and experiments to validate assumptions and refine user workflows
- Influence our direction: As an early hire, you’ll help shape not only the product, but our engineering culture, frontend architecture, and technical roadmap
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company is now well-positioned to further enhance its platform and expand its user base. As MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements, the company is also poised to play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees (plus 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents)
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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