Scratch Data

Open-Source Snowflake

Founding Software Engineer

$80K - $100K / 0.50% - 2.00%
Location
New York, NY, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
1+ years
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Jay Goel
Jay Goel
Founder

About the role

We're building open-source tools to help companies do realtime data analysis. Our product is helping companies move terabytes of data into their warehouse without any devops. Our main product is open-source and is approaching 1k stars on Github.

This role is in-person in Brooklyn, NY.

About the Role

You will be our first full-time engineering hire, working alongside the founder. This is primarily a backend role, but you will wear many hats, including devops, and frontend dashboards.

At our stage, the most important thing is iteration speed: we launch new features, ask for feedback from users, and iterate. You will be the primary engineer responsible for executing on an ambitious roadmap.

This is a full-time position, with healthcare, vacation, and equity.

About You

We're looking for people who want to have a front-row seat at an early-stage startup.

  • You highly value launching to production, even if the code is a little messy
  • You're comfortable with Go programming including (goroutines, channels, and other go idioms)
  • You wear many hats: Databases, Javascript, and the command-line are all part of the job
  • You're excited about building open-source software

About the interview

The interview has three steps:

  1. Initial Zoom call where we talk about you, your career so far, and what you are looking for in your next role.
  2. Take-home project to implement a small version of our product. We'll send more details, and it should take about 2 hours.
  3. A paid work trial. You'll work alongside us via Slack for a few days on the project for 2-5 days. We will pay you a daily rate for this and we'll ship real code. We are flexible in terms of scheduling days and times for this, as we know it's a real commitment. We only do this once we've established that we're really interested in working together.

About Scratch Data

We're building an data warehouse that developers love.

We handle large volumes of data and let users query it in an instant. We're API-first and are building some of the most delightful (really!) database software on the market.

Scratch Data
Founded:2021
Team Size:1
Location:New York
Founders
Jay Goel
Jay Goel
Founder