Director of Engineering, ALT
Data, Automation & Analytics
$188-215k
+ Equity
Management platform for alternative assets
Open for applications
Management platform for alternative assets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$188-215k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To unlock the value of alternative assets.
Role
Who you are
- 8–12+ years in data engineering/analytics, including 4+ years leading managers and cross‑functional teams
- Built and operated high‑scale data ingestion from heterogeneous sources (APIs, feeds, and web data) with strong SLAs on freshness and accuracy
- Led an analytics engineering function and partnered with analysts on metric definitions, product analytics instrumentation, experimentation enablement, and exec reporting
- Hands‑on with Python and SQL; comfortable reviewing PRs and diving into schema/model design
- Have experience scaling Analytics across organization. Practical experience delivering LLM/agent systems in production with measurable business outcomes
- Experience working on operational workflows
- Marketplace, fintech, or e‑commerce experience (pricing/valuation, risk, payments) preferred
- Prior success scaling teams in a high‑growth startup
- Bonus: You’re familiar with the collectibles space or alternative asset marketplaces
What the job involves
- Own all ETL/ELT from external marketplaces and partners (listings and sold history data). Deliver coverage, freshness, and low latency across sources (APIs, feeds, and compliant web scraping)
- Design and operate pipelines ; contribute to our asset AI detection entity resolution, and robust outlier detection/cleansing
- Set measurable SLOs for freshness/latency/accuracy; build monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for data incidents
- Own the Alt internal asset catalog and help increase proprietary dataset
- Lead the analytics engineering function and partner closely with the Analytics team (analysts). Provide a clear, self‑servable metrics layer and executive dashboards for GMV, liquidity, funnels, seller/buyer behavior, and ops SLAs
- Own the event taxonomy and product analytics in Amplitude; design A/B experiments
- Map high‑leverage manual workflows (e.g., listing QA, price suggestions, dispute/CS routing, KYC review, payout reconciliation) and deliver AI agents to replace manual workflows
- Partner with Product, Ops, Risk, and Finance to prioritize automations by ROI and shipped impact
- Building cross organizational workflows
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team (data engineering, analytics engineering, and automation/ML engineers). Manage vendors and budgets
- Translate business goals into a clear roadmap with quarterly outcomes
- Tech You'll Work With:
- Warehouse/Lake: Snowflake; object storage (/S3)
- Full text search databases: Typesense
- Orchestration: Airflow; Data streaming
- Transformations & Quality: dbt; Great Expectations/Soda; data catalog
- Ingestion: Airbyte/Fivetran plus custom Python (Scrapy/Playwright) with proxy mgmt
- Analytics: Tableau, Metabase (core BI) and Amplitude (taxonomy, funnels, experiments)
- Infra/Dev: AWS; Terraform/IaC; GitHub Actions; Datadog
- AI/Agents: OpenAI/Anthropic or Vertex AI; MCPs, Agentic Frameworks (Langchain, Pydantic AI) ; Embeddings model, RAGs; evaluation/guardrails frameworks
Our take
Increased interest in alternative assets has resulted in an unexpected boom in the collectables market, as more people are seeking to diversify their portfolios. Alt is a trading and portfolio management platform capitalizing on this exciting new upswing, making it simple to buy and sell investment-grade trading cards.
Initially dealing exclusively with sports cards, the company’s platform has expanded to include other trading card types, ranging from Pokémon to Yu-Gi-Oh! Alt sets itself apart from the competition by offering its users a vast range of attractive options, such as no buyer premiums, cash advances, Alt Vault card storage and borrowing options.
By tackling the three key problems hobbling the uptake of alternative asset investments (liquidity, price transparency, and physical storage) Alt’s success certainly opens the door for further expansion into different assets like art and sneakers, ushering in a new model for alternative asset markets.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
108% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$31m
SERIES A
Total funding: $106m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Monthly WFH, health and wellness stipend
- Generous parental and family leave
- Volunteer opportunities
- Learning and development programs
- Unlimited PTO
- WeWork access
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Leore Avidar
(CEO )Also co-founded Lob, a platform that makes direct mail for businesses faster and easier. Was an Asset Management Derivates Trader for Citigroup Global Markets, and part of the Technical Business Development, Startups and Venture Capital services for AWS.
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