Principal Software Engineer, Northbeam
Data Systems
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Data analytics for DTC and ecommerce brands
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Data analytics for DTC and ecommerce brands
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Northbeam is the new standard for ecommerce intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for a product-minded engineer who thrives in building data-intensive systems
- Expert in
- SQL (write a SQL query that divides credit for a purchase event among marketing touchpoints that occurred prior to the purchase event)
- Python (what are the most popular package managers in Python and what are their tradeoffs?)
- Linux / UNIX (describe the role the filesystem cache plays on a UNIX system)
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed data processing and analytics systems – e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark
- Web browser mechanics – cookies, localStorage, XMLHttpRequest, etc
- Cloud infrastructure primitives – object stores, message queues, compute
- Observability tools – logging, metric stores, application performance and error monitoring
- 2+ years of experience focused on data-intensive data and analytics software products
- 2+ years of experience working inside web analytics systems or inside adtech systems
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- Enthusiasm for collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Architectural and hands-on experience with
- Batch data processing and orchestration engines (we use Airflow extensively)
- Database engines – both traditional OLTP and modern OLAP systems
- Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with web and frontend development
- Experience working in enterprise Martech, E-commerce, or SaaS
What the job involves
- You will both provide architectural direction for, and execute on, a large product surface area
- Example projects that you may be responsible for:
- Expand the functionality of the large-scale number crunching systems which power the core of our marketing attribution algorithms by integrating with various data sources
- Build creative solutions to handle data coming from many sources (S3, SFTP, email, and more) of many different types (Parquet, JSON, CSV, Thrift) in an extensible and sustainable manner
- Design, implement, document, and scale customer-facing APIs, enabling customers to connect their data to Northbeam faster, decreasing the time to onboard
- Design, develop and maintain the data models and transformations that will enable us to accelerate product development on our core ecommerce analytics product
Our take
Traditionally in-person stores used a plethora of consultants, accountants and agencies to seek improvements that would boost their bottom line. Now, in the age of internet-enabled commerce, data richness and a totally new customer acquisition landscape has made those services irrelevant.
Instead, startups like Northbeam have emerged to fulfil those roles for the modern age. In particular, Northbeam provides services for e-commerce intelligence. That means applying machine learning and first-party data to drive more efficient and scalable marketing strategies.
Northbeam received substantial funding in 2022 that is being used to expand its machine-learning capabilities, especially useful since the 2021 Apple iOS updates. These updates made it more difficult for brands to track consumer behavior across the internet and to accurately advertise to the users most likely to buy their products. Machine learning advances will undoubtedly help Northbeam get ahead of this curve.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
112% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Significant equity package
- Generous base salary
- Healthcare Benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Travel to meet with the team
Company values
- Growth mindset - we’re always learning and growing
- Customer focus - we want to make the customer happy with our product
- Ownership mentality - we think like owners in the business
- Radical candor - we’re transparent and give direct feedback to one another
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Austin Harrison
(CEO)Previously helped build the first audience panel for NetRatings which went public in 1999 and Nielsen acquired the last 40% in 2007 for $327M.
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