Culture

Why Spreadsheets?

Spreadsheets are one of the hardest things you can build — right up there with compilers. To succeed, you need technical excellence on the backend, paired with utter obsessiveness on the frontend, partnered with a genuine empathy for users. As scaffolding for the mind used by more than 1 billion people, spreadsheets are one of the few applications that can have a universal impact on people's daily lives.

Sourcetable is a spreadsheet that syncs to your data. Our goal is to democratize information access so everyone can understand their data and make better decisions. We are a group of experienced founders, engineers and designers on a mission to build products to reach this goal. Execution will demand focus, resourcefulness and creativity. (A good sense of humor helps, but is not required.)

Simple is hard

For most people, accessing their data in a spreadsheet is just far too hard using existing solutions. This is such a common yet overlooked problem that we're rebuilding spreadsheets from the ground up with data as a first class citizen. Some might call this excessive, while many simply won't understand. We know it's worth sweating the small stuff when it comes to making things simple.

Bay Area Company // Remote Welcome

Talent is globally distributed, so push code from wherever you like — just keep the bar high. We coordinate on Pacific Standard Time.

Customer service first

Everyone answers support tickets. We have found this is the best way to generate product alignment and empathy for the user.

Ship it

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

Lead Backend Engineer

The Job

We are looking for a lead backend engineer to design and implement core backend data services. If you think like an architect but push code like a pragmatist, then you might be the right person for the role.

The responsibilities include the creation of data pipelines, a data warehouse and API services that power a large production scale web application. As an early employee you will be responsible for key parts of the engineering stack and directly involved in early engineering and product decisions.

This requires creative implementation of specifications while working with the entire team to ensure awesome outcomes. Sourcetable is an environment where developers can write clean, encapsulated and tested code that results in great products.

We're looking for engineers who bring new processes and ideas to the organization and use open source and cloud technologies to solve technical challenges. Sourcetable’s mission is universal data access through intuitive design. We believe great design starts at the data engineering level.

The Technology

• Java / Golang / Node
• Python
• Postgres / Redshift / MySQL
• Redis

Qualifications

• CS Degree or Comparable Technical Experience
• 5+ Years Work experience
• Demonstrable experience in backend development and database management
• Preferred: Experience with cloud services (AWS)

What we value

• Startup experience; ex-founder or founding team member (<20 employees)
• Familiarity with Unix / Linux environments
• Use engineering best practices Gitflow, CI/CD, Testing, Docker
• Familiarity with open source technologies and communities
• Proficiency with Java or Go
• Experience with Python
• Familiarity with Node.js
• Demonstrated ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.

Compensation

• 100k - 160k
• Meaningful equity
• Benefits: Health insurance, flexible PTO, etc.