Senior Software Engineer (Full Time, Remote in North America)

Time zones: EST (UTC -5), CST (UTC -6), MST (UTC -7), PST (UTC -8), AKST (UTC -9), HST (UTC -10), AST (UTC -4), NST (UTC -3:30)

42 is an end-to-end analytics stack for retailers and brands!

Whether it’s store managers running A/B tests on new product placement, CEOs looking at their global store performance, or merchandisers planning the next season, our platform enables retailers and brands to get instant visibility in their business.

The majority of retailers don’t have the in-house expertise to spin up data infrastructure. Instead, they piece together reports in excel on a daily basis. This works fine for small eCommerce brands, but not for retailers in the $50M-$5B range. That’s where we come in.

We offer our customers:

Retail-specific dashboards: best-practice metrics / visuals are built-in and customizable
No integration: we make their data and systems work with our platform
Hosted infrastructure: we host the pipelines and data warehouse

So, why join?
We are growing and profitable
We have high user engagement
We run the analytics for brands you know
YCombinator-backed
Small team, lots of opportunities to grow and shape the future of the company
We are a no ego, no BS, collaborative group passionate about our product and customers

Here’s our stack
App: Isomorphic JS / TS, Lerna, SQL
Data: PySpark, OLAP SQL
Infra: AWS, GCP, Docker, K8s

Challenges
Automating the merging of datasets across similar data sources
Processing human-generated datasets
Creating connectors that are reusable but can be extended to add customer-specific tweaks
Generalizing new features so that they work with all of our customers and can support many use cases

Sample projects working at 42
Expose our unified data warehouse API to the world
Create a metric notification system (e.g. push out-of-stock alerts to Zapier)
Hook up our authentication system to our customer’s user directory
Replace our SQL data warehouse with Spark 3.0 + GPUs
Spin up an image resizing and caching proxy
Build a portal to allow users to monitor the health of their data sources
GPT-3 + 42=?

You are a team member that…
can overlap ~4hrs with San Francisco Timezone (Pacific Time)
can work well as part of a fast-paced remote-first startup
is self-motivated, resourceful and can get things done, even at times with minimal direction
has a Bachelor’s degree, with STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), or equivalent preferred
has 3+ years professional software development experience
has experience with JS/TS and/or Python
is familiar with SQL and data modeling
is familiar with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
is passionate about eliminating technical debt

What we provide:
Competitive salary and equity package
Company games every 2 weeks, IRL meetup every 4-6 months
Flexible family benefits
Flexible vacation policy
Special requests welcome!

To wrap up, a few fun facts about us
We are a lean team, located across three continents and speak six languages 🌏🌍🌎
More than half of us are parents 👶🐶🐱
We like sharing food updates 🍱🌮🍕though we are split on loving or detesting peppers 🫑

If this sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you! 

Apply via email [careers @ 42technologies.com] or the “Apply for this position” button – and put ALL THE FISH in the subject line to prove you are a human 🤖