Data Engineer (First Data Hire)
Job description
A generalist data role at Alguna focused on building the company's data stack from scratch, covering internal analytics and customer-facing data products. The role spans software engineering, data engineering, devops and data analysis in an early-stage, remote, highly collaborative team.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Build the foundation for data products at Alguna, including both internal analytics and customer facing data products
- Ship features, gather feedback, and iterate given the early stage of the product
- Improve internal developer experience to allow the team to be efficient
- Write proposals to gather feedback on upcoming work and document decisions
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs on what to ship while finding product-market fit
What we're looking for
- Willing to build the foundation of the data stack, which may involve some software engineering, data engineering, devops and data analysis
- Happy to be autonomous, making pragmatic decisions independently
- Curious - if something doesn't work, figure it out rather than depending on others to fix things
- Related production experience with building a data stack from scratch
Benefits
Paid time off: 33 days annual leave (including public holidays) - you may choose to take public holidays, or take these days at other times
- Meaningful equity - everyone who joins will have ownership in the success of Alguna
- Wellbeing & learning budget: £1000/year to spend on anything that helps you grow
- Home office setup: £250 towards your home office setup
- Location-specific benefits: pension, health insurance - to be discussed on case by case basis
How to get hired
- 1A 30-minute intro call with one of the co-founders about your experience, what we're building, and what you're looking for in your next role
- 2A 30-minute call with the other co-founder to chat about the company, goals, and answer any questions
- 3A 60-minute technical interview diving deeper into your core abilities relevant to the role through a real-life pair-programming exercise
- 4A 60-minute interview with some of your potential colleagues to discuss your background and how you like to work
- 5Reference checks to confirm what we learned about you throughout the interview process, typically asking for a couple of managers or peers you collaborated with in the recent past
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About Alguna
Alguna allows companies to optimise their revenue management by allowing them to set a unified pricing strategy, supporting complex pricing models, creating the most customizable quote options, enabling new revenue opportunities by proactively monitoring product usage and adoption, and forecasting revenue based on real-time insights.
Key facts
- 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
- We're remote but highly collaborative in nature
- We're in the early stages of building the product