[Hiring] Data Engineer @Alguna

Role Description

You're a generalist who is willing to build the foundation of our data stack, which may involve some software engineering, data engineering, devops, and data analysis.

• You're happy to be autonomous, making pragmatic decisions for yourself.
• You're curious - if something doesn't work you figure it out, you don't depend on others to fix things for you.
• You have related production experience with building a data stack from scratch.

What the job involves

• 0→1: Building the foundation for data products at Alguna - this includes both internal analytics and customer-facing data products.
• Collaborating: We’re remote but highly collaborative in nature.
• Shipping value: We’re in the early stages of building the product, so we need to get features out there, get feedback, and iterate.
• Improving our internal developer experience: In order to allow us all to be efficient.
• Not just writing code: We write proposals to gather feedback on upcoming work and document our decisions.
• Being pragmatic: Given we’re still finding product-market fit, we will need to make tradeoffs with what we ship, and it’s not always going to be polished.

Our stack

• We use Typescript & Next.js and Golang for our platform.
• We deploy on Vercel and AWS.
• We use Axiom for observability and GitHub for CI and CD.
• We prefer always to buy tools rather than build, so we can focus our efforts on the things that differentiate us.

Application process

• A 30-minute intro call with one of the co-founders where we’ll talk about your experience, what we’re building, and what you’re looking for in your next role.
• A 30-minute call with the other co-founder to chat about the company, goals, and answer any questions you may have.
• A 60-minute technical interview where we'll dive deeper into your core abilities relevant to the role through a real-life pair-programming exercise.
• A 60-minute interview with some of your potential colleagues where we’ll discuss your background and how you like to work.
• Assuming we are a mutual match, we’ll conduct reference checks to confirm what we learned about you throughout the interview process. Typically, we’d ask for a couple of managers or peers that you collaborated with in the recent past.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity: everyone who joins will have ownership in the success of Alguna.
• Paid time off: 33 days annual leave (including public holidays) - you may choose to take public holidays, or take these days at other times.
• Wellbeing & learning budget: £1000/year to spend on anything that helps you grow - we trust you to know how to best spend this as you know your needs better than anyone else.
• Home office setup: £250 towards your home office setup.
• Location-specific benefits: pension, health insurance - to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.