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Software Engineer, Full Stack

Secoda

Secoda

Software Engineering
Ontario, Canada · Remote
Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2023
$100K - $200K / 0.05% - 0.25%
Location
Toronto, Ontario / Remote (CA; US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Andrew McEwen
Founder

About the role

Roles and responsibilities

  • Work with designers and product managers to build features and improvements for the core platform (e.g how to display data lineage that’s both performant and intuitive)
  • Work with engineering team to increase the scalability of Secoda’s platform (e.g. React component performance, Postgres query performance)
  • Work with customer success team to help diagnose and fix bugs
  • Work with product team to guide the roadmap towards features that help solve the most important problems for customers

Engineers on the team today:

  • Work with React (TypeScript), Python (Django), Postgres, and AWS.
  • Are supportive—especially when teammates are faced with new challenges
  • Are able to autonomously figure out the solutions to their challenges
  • Put themselves in the shoes of our users to craft a great experience
  • Value clear, frequent communication
  • Are naturally curious and willing to take a step to learn something they don’t have experience in
  • Feel a great sense of accountability to our users
  • Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Skills & experience

  • 3+ years of experience working as a software engineer
  • A fundamental understanding of some of the core technologies in our stack
  • Proficiency in communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with data tools such a data warehouses (Snowflake & BigQuery), BI (Tableau, Looker & Mode), and others (dbt & Fivetran)
  • Experience working in an early-stage startup environments

About Secoda

Secoda makes the experience of exploring and using data as intuitive, fast, and useful as using Google Search. Secoda stands for searchable company data and our vision is to continue to work towards a tool that makes browsing for data knowledge as easy as finding a website on Google.