Data Engineer

United States (will consider candidates in overlapping time zones)
Full-time

Silkchart helps marketers acquire higher value customers. Our no code analytics tool intelligently combines product and marketing data to uncover which channels, copy, and content maximize growth. We're backed by top venture capital and angel investors, including Y Combinator, SoftBank, and execs from Instacart, Asana, and Coinbase.

We’ve just finished the most recent Y Combinator batch, and are hiring a founding engineer to work closely with the co-founders in shaping the product from scratch and scaling it across users. You'll be joining a startup right at the beginning, have a wide range of responsibilities, and have a great opportunity to develop new skills and shape the direction of the product.


The role in a nutshell


We are looking for a full stack engineer to design and build innovative analytics and data tools that help marketers get valuable users. You will present meaningful, clear, and actionable growth insights by combining several sources of campaign and product data. You will build an elegant, intuitive, and reliable product that answers our customers' most important analytics questions.

What you’ll do at Silkchart

  • Build and maintain clear and intuitive presentations of data
  • Work quickly and flexibly as we iterate towards product-market fit
  • Build a clean, reliable, and flexible backend infrastructure to power data insights
  • Generate insights from large volumes of data using both AI and traditional data science approaches
  • Build and maintain robust integrations
  • Develop effective and reliable ways to combine data across multiple sources in order to unlock insights

What you’ll get out of it

  • You will work as part of a small team and have a major impact on the direction of the company.
  • You will create a name for yourself by bringing innovative analytics solutions never before seen in this category.
  • You will get exposure to real business problems every company faces (growth) that you can take with you to start your own company (or to help scale another).
  • You will have fun, plain and simple. 
  • You will experience a new way of working. Our team is fully distributed across the US. 

What we’re looking for

  • 2+ yrs experience as a full stack web developer
  • Experience as a member of an early stage startup team
  • Experience translating business requirements to clean and robust user facing product
  • Strong proficiency node.js, react.js
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Experience with data visualization (especially d3)
  • Previous martech/adtech experience
  • Willingness to be flexible and "wear many hats" in an early stage startup environment
  • A passion for working with data


We are fully remote.

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