Software Engineer, Metabase
Backend
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
Open for applications
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Make an easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Clojure (or a strong desire to learn)
- Track record of shipping products of significant complexity
- Solid CS background (acquired through either a CS program or shipping software in a production setting)
- Able to make good technical judgements and back them up articulately
- Nice to have: Experience with JDBC and database integrations
- Nice to have: Experience and knowledge of the Java ecosystem and JVM tuning
- Nice to have: history of open source contributions
- Nice to have: experience in JavaScript / Typescript (our frontend is in JS and TS)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for exceptional software engineers to join our team in doing the hard work that makes our users’ lives easy
- We run on a mix of Clojure and JavaScript, and the ideal candidate has shipped production code in one or more of these languages
- You’ll be expected to ship major features end to end across our JavaScript and Clojure codebase, as well as deal with some of our trickier backend issues as they arise
- Some familiarity with machine learning, compiler theory and modern big data infrastructures would be helpful
- You should have strong product sensibilities and deeply care about the end user experience
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Metabase is at the crest of a third wave of Business Intelligence tools: first centralized enterprise architectures like SAP, then self-service tools like Tableau and Looker and now cloud-based, open-source tools like Metabase.
Its open-source nature has helped Metabase reach 98 million downloads. Metabase makes money by offering a number of professional services like managed hosting, support, and assistance with implementing Metabase in a custom analytics or business intelligence setup.
The company is doubling down on its documentation and sales team to help onboard less experienced users and scale beyond their current user base of over 30,000 companies. The challenge for the startup will be capturing significant revenue while sticking to their open-source principles.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38m
Company benefits
- Remote-first
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Sameer Al-Sakran
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with an MS in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics. Worked as a Software Engineer and Genetic Programming researcher before founding a Facebook Ad Tools startup in 2010. Worked with multiple VCs and startup studios, lastly Expa from which Metabase was spun out of.
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