Founding Engineer (Back-End)
We are an analytics platform that instruments cloud-based databases to improve performance, reduce costs, and eliminate downtime. Our SaaS product intelligently tunes databases in the cloud, provides deep analytics, recommendations, and predictions, so companies don't have to hire DBA experts, throw money at performance problems, or deal with slow queries.
It works through applying our proprietary algorithms on top of enormous data sets and using learning techniques to help customer proactively find & solve issues. The product can be deployed in less than 2 minutes without any coding.
We have raised one round of funding and have several paying customers.
######## About the Role
As the only full time employee - you will own the back-end data service which extract raw events (100s of millions per week) from distributed databases (owned by our customers), move the data into our platform, and write transformation logic (in SQL and Spark) before serving it to customers.
You will have two teammates, a full-stack engineer and a front-end UI developer. In addition, our technical advisors are the folks who actually wrote the database engine so you'll work with them, too.
While you are expected to code full-time, some of the things we plan to help you learn: user testing, product management, UI design, A/B testing, running production systems at scale, software processes, engineering management, and anything else you're interested in learning. We are a small startup, so everything will be transparent.
######## Technologies
You must have actual, real-world experience (at least 2 years) with all of:
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
Celery
Spark
Amazon EMR
ElasticSearch
### Location
The founders are based in SF, but the rest of the engineering team is remote. Working remotely is definitely OK, but you must be willing to travel to SF at least once / quarter.
######## About You
Ok it's awesome that you read this far ;) We are a small company with experienced founders and big plans, and it's a huge milestone for us to be hiring our first full-time engineer. At the same time it's real important that there is a good cultural fit so please consider the following points. If you read the below and thing to yourself "yeah that's me!" then we'd love to hear from you!
We are looking for folks with these traits:
Persistence. There is always a solution. We need people who won't throw up their hands and give up when there is a problem but instead roll up their sleeves and get creative.
Self learning. You will likely be the company expert in some significant area so you have to be comfortable seeking answers to questions that arise or problems that you encounter.
Strong opinions, weakly held. I like (actually, I expect it) that you have an opinion of how something should be done, but you should be able to change your mind when confronted with new information that obviates your initial thinking, and you should avoid arguing about shit that just doesn't matter. Your time is valuable, and you just want to build stuff and get it done.
Excited about building the house, not which tools you are using. You should spend majority of your time thinking about architecture, how data flows, how systems are abstracted, the best way to build-in automated testing, scalability/reliability, and the API design of our services. The specific technology (ie, language, database) is always less important than having the right architecture.
Do "just enough". Focus on the 80% of stuff that needs to get done, not the 20% edge case which most users won't care about. At this stage, build things that are very solid but not "perfect".
Compensation
- 100k-150k + substantial equity
Desired Skills
How to Apply
Please send an email to jobs at intermix.io with Subject: "I Read to the End" and in the email talk about:
- One project that you've worked on that best prepares you for this role,
- Why you want to work at an early stage (5 person) company
Contact Info
- Contact Email: jobs@intermix.io
- Company Website: http://intermix.io/
