Director of Engineering, Applecart
Research & Insights
$200-250k
+ Cash bonus + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Social graph platform for marketing
Open for applications
Social graph platform for marketing
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
+ Cash bonus + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the intelligence that sophisticated organizations use to power their strategy for winning over key decision makers.
Role
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of professional software development experience, including back-end and data engineering
- You have technical leadership experience, specifically in agile environments
- You are a natural collaborator, adept at leading brainstorms, whiteboard sessions as well as pair programming
- You have designed ETL pipelines using distributed computing frameworks like Spark
- You have strong computer science fundamentals, as well as solid command of operational best practices (e.g. “clean” code, test-driven development, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc…)
- You have extensive experience hiring and managing software engineers
- You are a dedicated coach who leads with empathy and thrives by helping people perform and grow
- You are an excellent technical and cross-functional communicator
- You are a versatile developer with experience in full-stack and data engineering
- You have a mind for software architecture
- You have a track record of delivering robust technology in collaboration with Product Managers
- You have experience working with distributed teams, including external consultants
Desirable
- Your language of choice is Python
- AWS is your cloud platform of choice
- You have DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience
What the job involves
- As the Director of Engineering, Research & Insights at Applecart, your mission will be to optimize Applecart’s core targeting capabilities continually
- You will help start and lead a new hybrid-remote team of software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value
- Your team will create and maintain integrations with various external APIs, large batch data processing pipelines and entity resolution algorithms
- At the onset, your responsibilities are primarily focused on hands-on software development
- You will report to our VP of Engineering
Our take
Applecart uses publicly available data, both online and offline to build a map of real-world interpersonal relationships, which clients can leverage to run more rewarding advertising and marketing campaigns.
The company was founded on the ideal that social influence, or word of mouth, is the most impactful motivator. Thus, its social graph technology theoretically allows for more accurate targeted advertising than geo-fencing or demographic targeting.
Applecart started out on political campaigns, encouraging people to get involved in elections and boost low voter turnout. In the last few years however, the company has begun to move further into commercial work with the likes of Boeing, as well as nonprofits such as The Business Roundtable.
Interestingly, one of Applecart’s major backers, and now a board member, is Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor – an entertainment and media agency which owns the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). While it’s not clear that the UFC is a customer of Applecart at present, this does give a strong indication of the level of clients that the company now has access to.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2023
$10.4m
LATE VC
Jul 2018
$4.1m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Applecart pays 75% contribution towards Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401(k) with 4% company match
- HSA and FSA
- OneMedical: On-demand primary care free to all employees whether you take our insurance or not!
- Health Advocate: Personal healthcare concierge
- Teladoc: Network of virtual healthcare providers
- Talkspace: Online mental health therapy
- Headspace: Full access to the meditation app
- Kindbody: Fertility & gynecology services
- 35 days of Paid Time Off: 20 vacation days, 10 personal days, 5 sick days
- 14 company holidays
- Bereavement leave
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave inclusive of birth and adoption for primary and secondary caregivers
- Frequent company-wide and team social events such as game nights, cooking classes, summer boat cruises, paint & sip, karaoke, escape the room, bowling, team dinners, baseball games, holiday parties and plenty more
- Stocked fridge of full of drinks and plenty of healthy (and less healthy) snacks
- Weekly happy hour and bagel breakfast
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- $300 workstation budget to personalize your at-home or in-office space
- Hybrid in-office setup: we work from our office in midtown Manhattan every Tuesday - Thursday and give the option to work from anywhere on Monday and Friday
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Matthew Kalmans
(Co-CEO)Forbes 30 under 30. Co-founded Applecart while an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sacha Samotin
(Co-CEO)Forbes 30 under 30. Along with co-founder and co-CEO Matthew Kalmans, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where Applecart was first launched.
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