Data Engineer (First Data Hire)

Who you are

• You're a generalist who is willing to build the foundation of our data stack, which may involve some software engineering, data engineering, devops and data analysis
• You're happy to be autonomous, making pragmatic decisions for yourself
• You're curious - if something doesn't work you figure it out, you don't depend on others to fix things for you
• You have related production experience with building a data stack from scratch

What the job involves

• 0→1: Building the foundation for data products at Alguna - this includes both internal analytics and customer facing data products
• Collaborating: We’re remote but highly collaborative in nature
• Shipping value: We’re in the early stages of building the product, so we need to get features out there, get feedback, and iterate
• Improving our internal developer experience: In order to allow us all to be efficient
• Not just writing code: We write proposals to gather feedback on upcoming work and document our decisions
• Being pragmatic: Given we’re still finding product-market fit, we will need to make tradeoffs with what we ship, and it’s not always going to be polished

• A 30-minute intro call with one of the co-founders where we’ll talk about your experience, what we’re building, and what you’re looking for in your next role
• A 30-minute call with the other co-founder to chat about the company, goals, and answer any questions you may have
• A 60-minute technical interview where we'll dive deeper into your core abilities relevant to the role through a real-life pair-programming exercise
• A 60-minute interview with some of your potential colleagues where we’ll discuss your background and how you like to work
• Assuming we are a mutual match, we’ll conduct reference checks to confirm what we learned about you throughout the interview process. Typically, we’d ask for a couple of managers or peers that you collaborated with in the recent past