Scala Backend Engineer

We're looking for a seasoned Back-End engineer with strong big data engineering skills to join us to build the next-generation sales tool to serve product-led-growth companies like Notion, Figma and Amplitude.

This is a senior role where you'll be responsible for technical leadership at HeadsUp.

It's an opportunity to shape culture and influence the product on the ground floor of a greenfield opportunity in a huge market.

To apply, email headsup@scalajobs.dev

👷🏼‍♀️ What you'll do

• Spearhead Development: Lead development of our back-end services including event ingestion architecture, data infrastructure, and ML pipeline. Our back-end needs to be scalable, robust, and secure to handle large amounts of event data and analytical processing on the modern data stack (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, Airflow etc.).
  • You'll need to build reliable services to ingest millions of events daily and process them into insights and alerts.
  • You'll own the HeadsUp product's core data pipelines and be responsible for scaling up data processing flow to the scale of our clients who have tens of millions of users.
  • You'll need to design intuitive, durable, and extensible APIs that scale.
  • You'll direct how data should be partitioned and how infrastructure should be set up, optimizing for security and latency.
  • You'll implement systems tracking the quality and consistency of data ingested by our clients.
  • You'll design abstractions that empower others to ship quickly by having thoughtful and generalizable interface.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical oversight for engineering team. Tactically, this means taking a leadership role in engineering syncs, reviewing design documentation and pull requests, and more.
• Close Collaboration with Product: Work closely with the founders to deeply understand our buyer and user persona and determine our roadmap.

🔍 What we're looking for

• Experience building data-heavy back-end systems: Our back-end is currently built with Scala. Over time, this will mature to include more robust and scalable systems, which you will decide and own. We work with data warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift as well as third-party event sources such as Segment. Experience with Scala is a huge plus.
• Proficiency in at least one of the SQL languages (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SqlServer, Oracle).
• Ability to see around corners and design both thoughtfully and quickly: While years of experience don't always correlate with this, we think you'll likely have at least 4 years of experience.
• (Preferred) Experience with workflow management tools (Airflow, Oozie, Prefect, Dagster).
• (Preferred) Startup experience: Our ideal candidate has completed 2+ year-long tours at venture-backed startups such as Airtable, Notion, and Figma. Specifically, we look for ability to move quickly, design for scale, and build with open-source software.

⭐ Our benefits

• Fully remote configuration, with periodic off-sites at 🏝️ exciting locations like Bali, London and Paris for the best of both worlds.
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity (we're well funded and care about treating everyone well when it comes to stock compensation)
• Join a hungry and ambitious elite group working towards solving a large and meaningful problem that improves the lives of salespeople and the users of SaaS products.
• Standard perks like Health insurance, flexible time off (at least 20 days/year recommended)

😊 To apply, email headsup@scalajobs.dev with your resume, GitHub (or sample sources of work), and a quick note on why you think this is the role for you.

🌎 We're hiring anywhere across the globe, and our current team is predominantly based in the US.