Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and implementation of Built’s data products platform aimed at application users, encompassing product interfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend workflows, and reusable components.

• Create comprehensive full-stack customer experiences utilizing TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and associated technologies.

• Collaborate with Product teams to refine vague concepts into effective customer workflows, challenge low-value requirements, and propose practical alternatives.

• Transform data science prototypes, analytical concepts, and platform functionalities into production-quality product experiences.

• Introduce strong software engineering methodologies within a data-centric team through technical design, code reviews, mentoring, testing, and delivery practices.

• Assist data engineers in undertaking more software engineering tasks across frontend, backend, APIs, product decomposition, and ensuring production readiness.

• Work collaboratively across Built to ensure that data products integrate seamlessly with application interfaces, platform functionalities, agents, or customer workflows.

• Leverage customer signals, usage metrics, product feedback, support issues, and discovery insights to inform engineering decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Staff-level software engineering experience with a proven history of leading ambiguous, customer-facing product initiatives from conception to production.

• Strong product acumen, customer intuition, and the capability to discern when a workflow or requirement fails to deliver customer value.

• Experience in full-stack web application development, particularly with a focus on backend product engineering.

• Extensive knowledge of TypeScript, Node.js, React, and contemporary web application architecture.

• Proficiency in Python or a demonstrated ability to operate effectively within Python-based systems.

• Experience in designing APIs, defining service boundaries, creating reusable application patterns, and building production backend systems.

• Capacity to write high-quality, maintainable code with a strong emphasis on testing, readability, observability, and operational ownership.

• Excellent technical communication skills, including the ability to produce design documentation, engage in architectural discussions, and perform tradeoff analyses.

• A collaborative leadership approach that encourages constructive challenges to product direction and mentors engineers without condescension.

• Preference for customer value over technology for technology’s sake.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including: unlimited vacation [US ONLY], health, dental & vision insurance.

• Comprehensive compensation package featuring equity in the form of stock options.

• Learning Grant program designed to support ongoing professional development.

• 401k with matching contributions and expedited vesting [US ONLY].