Backend Engineer- Tech Lead (Data/API team)

Backend Engineer- Tech Lead (Data/API team)

We're revolutionizing how marketing and sales teams leverage data and uncover insights from it. Our cutting-edge data platform unifies and transforms data from CRMs, ad platforms, and websites in real-time, extracting actionable insights to drive revenue.

Every B2B company grapples with this challenge. If you've ever seen sales and marketing teams struggling to find effective strategies, you understand the problem we're solving. Join us in our mission to make good companies great.

We graduated from YC’s Summer 23 batch and we've roughly doubled our ARR every 6 months since then. If you join, you'll be part of a high-growth startup with proven product-market fit, methodically building a billion-dollar company through a high-performance culture and exceptional talent.

What we value

• Builders.
• Coding well is a rigorous craft. We are looking for people who enjoy coding just for the sake of it. That’s how you build really cool stuff.
• Ownership.
• Expect to own a crucial part of the product within your first two weeks. No jokes. We’ve seen that only the ones who can take this kind of a responsibility can thrive in this environment.
• Shipping. Fast.
• You don’t need to break things to move fast. But you do need a certain kind of mentality to know what shortcuts you can take and what tradeoffs you can make. How else can you grow fast if you aren’t deploying to prod every day?
• Scalability.
• Writing production-ready code is a very different thing when you have 1 customer versus over 100. You should take pride in thinking through every line of code you write and any edge cases it might introduce.
• Some of our SQL queries involve more than 500 lines of code.
• We are munging and managing more than 60TB of data for our customers.
• We process high-throughput data from 30+ data sources.

About the role

Who we're looking for

You're the rare talent who excels in API integrations, data orchestration, and backend engineering. Your passion lies in constructing robust data pipelines, devising innovative ways to extract insights from diverse sources, and unifying massive datasets.

Your Mission: Powering our Data Core

At HockeyStack, you'll be the guardian of our most vital asset: data. Your responsibilities include managing 30+ integrations with our data sources (like CRMs, ad platforms, and marketing tools), architecting a robust backend to capture and process this data at scale, and building data pipelines that handle billions of daily inserts.

You’ll have to familiarize yourself with rate limiting of APIs, caching between the steps in the pipeline, message queues and anything else that will help you get data from point A to point B. Whatever architecture, pipeline or business logic is necessary to do so is going to be your responsibility.

Requirements:

• San Francisco, in person every day
• Good backend knowledge (Node.js, Express)
• Have worked with APIs at scale before
• Exposure to basic AWS services
• Move fast and reach milestones under uncertainty
• Ready to work really hard on really hard problems

Bonus Points:

• High-growth SaaS experience, including scalability challenges
• Familiarity with ClickHouse (our main analytical database)

Some of the cool benefits we offer aside from the cool technical work you get to do alongside some smart engineers:

• TOP salary + meaningful equity
• Beautiful office near South Park in SF
• Catered daily meals (coming soon)
• Unlimited Beer & diet coke (because who likes coke zero :d)
• 401K & Health, Dental and Vision insurance

Job ranges for this role: $200,000 to $240,000