Backend Engineer, Windfall

$100-130k

Salary dependent on location

Junior and Mid level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area
Windfall

Data intelligence company

Open for applications

Windfall

Data intelligence company

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Open for applications

$100-130k

Salary dependent on location

Junior and Mid level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Company mission

To change how organizations perceive and use people data.

Role

Who you are

  • On-site in San Francisco
  • 2-4 years of experience
  • Expert object-oriented programming understanding
  • Experience using transactional databases
  • Experience building distributed systems
  • Understanding of web development & frontend communication
  • You communicate as well as you code
  • You can simplify complex problems into simple solutions
  • You balance a strong sense of ownership and responsibility in your work with collaboration and team alignment
  • You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery

Desirable

  • Proven experience taking a large project from ideation to production
  • Experience with greenfield projects
  • Past surface knowledge of databases, data warehouses, distributed computing frameworks, etc. for optimization and leveraging correct technologies
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native data engineering infrastructure

What the job involves

  • As a Backend Engineer on our application team at Windfall, you will be building the system for ingesting and processing our customer data. It is the “brains” of everything our customers interact with. Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall and you will work closely with our product and our other engineering teams
  • You will personally design and build a scalable distributed system capable of supporting Windfall’s next phase of growth. At our offices in San Francisco and Denver, you’ll be working in close proximity to senior leadership that can provide you with a wealth of technical, product, and business knowledge to help you grow your career
  • Architect and build distributed services which will power Windfall’s customer facing applications
  • Plan for scale in building solutions for today that will also set us up for future success and growth
  • Work closely with other backend, frontend, and data engineers to build a seamless product for our customers
  • Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for our various backend services

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Consumer financial data is notoriously inaccurate and many data brokers depend on census data, surveys, and zip codes, which are infrequently updated and can lead to false generalisations. This dependency on inaccurate information leads to costly financial mistakes for businesses.

With a focus on the affluent, Windfall delivers a precise net worth figure for individual households which is updated on a weekly basis. The platform collates accurate, up-to-date information from public and private domain records through partnerships with data vendors. It syncs with commonly used tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Shopify to power data-driven outreach to customers. Windfall's customer base includes hundreds of non-profits as well as businesses across a wide range of industries looking to better target their own sales and marketing efforts.

Having raised significant funding in 2021, Windfall has gone on to enjoy 100% year-on-year growth. In the immediate future it intends to double down on its success by expanding its sales and marketing reach and by further developing its product, including its application to give go-to-market teams direct access to its platform.

Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Mar 2021

$21m

SERIES A

Aug 2019

$9m

SEED

Total funding: $30m

Company benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • Retirement benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Long-term disability and life
  • Paid time off
  • Paid sick and volunteer days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Floating holidays
  • Stock options
  • Fully-stocked kitchen
  • Pet-friendly office
  • Remote-enabled

Company values

  • Be an excellent communicator
  • Operate with transparency
  • Provide leverage not optimization
  • Make a difference every day
  • Act with integrity and trust

Company HQ

Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Started his career in investment banking and growth equity, before switching to product management after completing an MBA at Haas School of Business.

Spent 9+ years at Sun Microsystems and Guidewire in various software engineering roles, before moving to a Director of Engineering role at Radius Intelligence, a Big Data company.

Daniel Stevens

(SVP of Business Development)

Studied Economics, Spanish, Markets & Management at Duke University. Background in investment and advisory services banking. Previously Head of Business Operations at Radius Intelligence for 1 year.

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