Sr. to Staff Engineer opening - Investment Tech Startup
San Francisco, CA (you can work from home up to 2x/week)
The company's product involves fintech, venture capital, investing, data, and marketplaces. It is bringing intelligence and liquidity to markets and democratizing access to high quality investments.
The company has raised $10 million in funding. It has 11 employees and 8 engineers, and is on pace to reach 20 employees by the end of this year.
In this position, depending on your preference you could be anywhere from 50-100% backend. The tech stack includes TypeScript, Node.js, Python, AI, and React.
The company will pay up to $350k in salary, plus up to 1% in equity.
Job Responsibilities:
- The tech stack is TypeScript + Node.js, with some python.
- Building scalable, reliable systems to ingest, normalize, and enrich data from thousands of sources. We have built out an entire data pipeline using LLMs to source data, and you will oversee taking it to the next level and scaling it.
- Driving the technical foundation for new AI-powered tools that automate workflows.
- Breaking apart monolithic systems into event-driven services that enable faster iteration and cleaner abstractions.
- Collaborating with the CTO to establish backend best practices and coding standards, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor the engineering team.
- Partnering with product and leadership to align technical vision with business priorities.
- Building high-quality datasets from noisy and inconsistent raw inputs, including LLM-enriched data.
- Designing and implementing a new API suite to provide data to integration partners.
- Creating internal monitoring and visibility tools for large-scale data pipelines.
- Driving engineering “cost/time estimationsˮ to inform our product roadmap.
Qualifications:
- Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed–Series A preferred).
- Speed; you can code much faster than your peers; you have expertise using the latest AI tooling for coding and developer workflows, and you have a mentality of constantly getting faster as a developer each passing month.
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript or a typed functional language such as Scala, Rust, or Haskell; adaptable across languages.
- Proven track record architecting systems and building codebases from scratch.
- Excited to take technical ownership and set the direction for backend engineering.
- Open to people leadership; a natural mentor who leads by example. You won't be expected to lead/manage from day 1, but should be open to eventually leading a team.
- Thrive in a high-velocity environment, delivering extensible systems quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Proactive, pragmatic, and thoughtful, with a strong sense of ownership.
About Skyrocket Ventures
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