Software Engineer

Summary

Join Hightouch's team as a product-minded backend engineer and contribute to the development of Customer Studio, a no-code data activation platform. You will work on challenging projects related to data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI. The ideal candidate possesses strong backend and distributed systems expertise, holistic architectural thinking, and a customer-centric approach. This senior role prioritizes impact and growth potential over years of experience, offering a competitive salary, equity compensation, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Be comfortable diving deep into backend and distributed systems
• Have strong customer and product thinking
• Be comfortable writing and engaging with product specs

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into backend and distributed systems
• Think holistically about architecture, scalability, maintainability, and reliability
• Write and engage with product specs
• Work on Data Warehouse Performance optimizations (e.g., optimizing queries, storing pre-computed state), and investigate warehouse-specific improvements
• Work on Analytics and Experimentation: build segments, decide what data to sync, and facilitate experimentation to downstream tools, including tracking the performance of different audiences
• Work on Real-time Audience Syncing: explore real-time audience computation and syncing as warehouses become more real-time and adopt technologies like CDC
• Work on Generative AI to enhance user workflows

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with SQL

Benefits

• Salary range: $180,000 - $260,000 USD per year (location independent)
• Meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options
• Early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window for equity
• Remote-first policy