Overview

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong ownership and a passion for user-facing products. In this crucial role, you will directly enhance the shopper experience and service quality, contributing to transformative changes in the grocery delivery industry. Your work will significantly impact critical systems and affect millions of end-users, underpinning our platform's success.

About the Job

• Backend System Development: Architect, design, and implement robust systems that improve shopper metrics and engagement. Your innovation will drive core enhancements across the platform.
• Collaborative Project Leadership: Lead cross-functional projects, including Product Managers, Mobile Engineers, and Data Scientists, to set clear project objectives, devise scalable solutions, and ensure timely execution.
• Mentorship: Actively mentor junior engineers, promoting a culture of quality and innovation, while instilling best practices in software development.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively drive enhancements in system performance and code quality, streamlining the software development process to boost scalability.

About the Team
The Shopper Engagement Team is a dynamic, cross-functional group dedicated to innovating at the intersection of technology and user insight. With a diverse team of nine engineers across backend, Android, and iOS, our efforts focus on enriching shopper quality and fulfillment efficiency through strategic touchpoints:

• Shopper Positioning: We provide clear, actionable data that demystifies work access, helping shoppers understand where and when to work and what to expect.
• Shopper Earnings & Work Evaluation: Our systems enable shoppers to evaluate work effectively and maximize earnings by presenting insightful, data-driven job choices.
• Shopper Motivation: We develop reward systems that incentivize top-tier service, enhancing both customer experience and shopper satisfaction.

Operating within Instacart's broader Shopper organization, our team plays a critical role in enhancing marketplace performance, ensuring that our strategies lead to high-quality shopper engagements and efficient fulfillment solutions.

What We Offer:

• Impact: Make a direct positive impact on the earnings and satisfaction of thousands of shoppers, influencing the customer experience profoundly.
• Growth: Handle high-leverage projects that enhance your career growth, providing opportunities for significant domain ownership and leadership in engineering solutions.
• Learning and Development: Work alongside industry-leading engineers and leaders who are at the forefront of online grocery innovation.
• Team Culture: Thrive in an environment that values collaboration, support, and innovation, with a strong focus on speed, quality, and efficiency.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience:  5+ years of experience in backend development, preferably with high-volume transaction systems.
• Technical Skills: Expertise in backend languages, specifically Ruby, Solid understanding of Rails, with a strong grasp of software architecture and system design.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver scalable and efficient solutions.
• Communication and Leadership: Strong leadership skills coupled with excellent communication abilities to manage projects and mentor team members effectively.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in Marketplace problems
• Experience in developing mobile applications
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
• Experience working with databases, especially PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

OVERVIEW

About the Role

Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Privacy Engineering team, you will be responsible for building the core privacy components that product teams across Instacart use to ensure our Customers can be in control of their data. In this role you will help connect our Customers to cutting edge privacy systems we have deployed internally.

About the Team

The Privacy team is a platform team in the Security Engineering organization that believes it should be easy to build products that respect our user’s privacy. To do this, we manage our internal data privacy architecture that includes systems to annotate, find, and delete data across production and offline data storage systems. Additionally, we build the front end components that product teams across Instacart use to give our users direct access to these internal systems.

The Privacy team is a member of our core Privacy working group, that includes our Legal team, Compliance team, Operations teams, and privacy partners for each of our main product pillars. Additionally we work closely with our Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Security engineering teams to ensure privacy controls are in place effectively across all levels of our stack.

About the Job

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, developing, and sustaining the comprehensive access controls and governance systems that improve the integrity and privacy of our data.
• Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the data platform.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders and actively involving data infrastructure.

About you

Minimum Qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Build and collaborate with our backend privacy engineers on the internal systems that enable privacy by design, touching all aspects of our full tech stack to turn privacy controls into reusable components..
• Develop scalable and pragmatic controls related to data collection, classification, storage, access, usage, and deletion in data warehouse environments and/or operational data systems.
• Capably communicates and is comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
• Possesses strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Takes a strong sense of ownership while working with large codebases and diverse suite of products.
• Embraces a collaborative mindset to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions.
• Communicates clearly, presents ideas well, and can influence key stakeholders at manager, director, and VP levels.

Preferred Qualifications

We would love it if you:

• Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or can demonstrate equivalent industry experience (4+ years).
• Have prior work experience in Security Engineering or Privacy Engineering.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks.
• Strong knowledge of common back-end web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, SQL, etc.) and big data technologies (such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Flink) in a large scale distributed system environment
• Have proven experience with distributed system designs.
• Possess strong general programming and algorithm skills.
• Show strong attention to detail and accuracy in your implementation.
• Appreciate a data-driven mindset.
• An ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, including written, to serve as an advocate & evangelist for the Privacy team

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on backend or full-stack contributions. You will work within our Acuity Scheduling organization, a distinct brand and platform within the Squarespace suite of products helping appointment-based businesses automate their client bookings, cancellations, reminders, and payments with flexible scheduling software.

You will report to an Engineering Team Manager and have the option to work onsite, hybrid, or fully remote (U.S. only). Acuity Scheduling is headquartered in New York City.

You'll Get To…

• Develop new features for Acuity Scheduling, a PHP and React application, with a focus on backend or full-stack contributions
• Write server-side production code for our high-volume, available applications, develop rapid prototypes for new features, and guide our technical designs forward
• Scale and improve the performance of the application and database
• Collaborate with other engineers, product, design, analytics, and customer operations to understand why we build the features we do
• Practice and be a mentor for disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing elegant, readable code)

Who We're Looking For

• 5+ years of large-scale software development experience in PHP, Java, Python, Go or another object-oriented language.
• A solid foundation in computer science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design practices.
• A sincere commitment to creating readable code and an understanding of database schema design, caching, and scalability.
• A degree in Computer Science or related or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in frontend development using React or a comparable JavaScript framework is preferred, but not required.

Benefits & Perks

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 12 to 20 weeks of paid family leave
• Equity plan for all employees
• Pretax commuter benefit
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop

Cash Compensation Range: $118,000 - $198,000 USD

The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.

In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include on-target commissions or overtime pay), all Squarespace employees are eligible to receive equity in the company as part of their total compensation.

About Squarespace

Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity, creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold, and hospitality business management via Tock. Our team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Chicago, Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

Our Commitment

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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ABOUT ROCKET MONEY ????

Rocket Money’s mission is to empower people to live their best financial lives. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.

ABOUT THE TEAM ????

Data Scientists at Rocket Money further our mission by building data products that deepen customer relationships with our many financial products. Our team builds machine learning driven product experiences that identify and engage customers who would benefit from mortgage and personal loan products. We integrate with product and engineering teams to understand, explain, predict, and intervene to improve product retention. Data Scientists also support growth operations by designing ML driven personalization experiences in onboarding. We have a strong preference for team players that are comfortable collaborating across teams, know how to shape strategy with data, and can deliver solutions within engineering teams.

ABOUT THE ROLE ????‍♀️

In this role, you will focus on the following types of problems:

• Build new, machine learning powered user-facing features and experiences in deep collaboration with engineering, product, and design teams. Use your expertise in ML system and model design to delight our customers with new user experiences. Work with engineering teams to build software to deliver new experiences to Rocket Money’s customers.
• Optimize to continuous product feedback loops - you understand that data science is the practice of a continuous lifecycle of measurement, analysis, modeling, and hypothesis testing. You understand how to build, test, and deliver user-facing data science products in an incremental way.
• Help develop the next version of Autopilot and Budgets. Ensure members have money in the right place at the right time for their near and long term goals. Warn them when they do not.
• Uncover and exploit relationships between customers’ subscriptions, purchase, and transaction data as you build personalized product experiences and power ever more accurate customer segmentation, propensity, and affiliate targeting models.
• Design and conduct experiments to estimate the impact of new products, customer messaging, and marketing. You know how to use experimentation to build the strategic case for more tailored ML product experiences.

Regardless of the challenges you dive into, you will:

• Become a subject matter expert in your area of specialty and be responsible for leading projects from start to finish - making key decisions on both implementation and scope while balancing technical and business goals.
• Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams to build new products and services.
• Become an expert on our members. Understand their needs and financial goals. Work with product to define strategy and engineering teams to create software and build features that help our members build better financial lives.
• Use your expertise in ML system and model design to aid product delivery, both internal and external.
• Be a steward of good instrumentation and experimental design - designing analyses, models, and products in a way that is measurable, testable, repeatable, and robust. You will advocate for experimental approaches in everything that we do.
• Build internal tooling that improves the data science and ML product implementation - help accelerate the work of others on engineering and data teams.
• Maintain a high technical bar - participate in code reviews, contribute to product and technical design, maintain a high degree of quality in our production data, and mentor junior team members.

ABOUT YOU ????

• You are a team player - collaboration and communication are a first instinct and key tool for getting stuff done. You continually seek feedback on your work.
• You know how to work at a strategic level - you can collaborate with stakeholders to define new projects and initiatives for yourself and others.
• You know how to deliver products incrementally - doing the simple thing first, finding and measuring signal, and iterating to build better user experiences.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills. Documenting, soliciting feedback, and securing alignment among stakeholders is second nature.
• Excellent software engineering skills. You can contribute up and down the application stack to deliver data products to users. Evidenced experience working with engineering teams to build software is an absolute must.
• You have 6+ years of professional experience working in a data science capacity. You know your way around databases, data warehouses, and how to engineer backend machine learning and data science systems. Bonus points if you have experience integrating data products into application front ends. You are equally adept at hacking together proof of concepts and working within engineering teams to build scalable, durable systems.
• You embrace the player/coach mindset. You take care to mentor and develop others when leading projects. You’ve helped junior data scientists grow in their careers and you always level up the technical skills of those around you.
• You care just as much about why you're solving a problem as the solution. You always want a deep understanding of context and business impact. You are a data scientist first but an expert analyst when necessary.
• Deep experience in several of the following in a professional capacity: customer segmentation and personalization, time series modeling, natural language processing, traditional classification/regression problems, design and implementation of experiments, recommendation systems, building generative AI applications in consumer software.
• You find yourself building tools to help others solve their problems and follow a philosophy of continuous improvement and automation.
• You want to continue to grow and learn. You are excited by hard problems and big challenges.
• Experience in fintech, banking, or finance is a plus

WE OFFER ????

• Health, Dental & Vision Plans
• Competitive Pay
• 401k Matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch daily (in-office only)
• Snacks & Coffee (in-office only)
• Commuter benefits (in-office only)

Additional information: Salary range of $160,000 - $200,000/year + bonus + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Rocket Money, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Timescale is looking for an experienced Senior Front-End Engineer with a track record of building great SaaS and cloud services.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in developing the next great cloud-native data platform. You will be responsible for playing a core role in developing and implementing the UI/UX for our cloud platform (https://www.timescale.com), and help customers have success using our product to serve their customers’ needs. If you are passionate about both developer tools and great design and want to help empower developers worldwide, then this is the role for you.

Timescale is a fully remote organization; this is a full-time position. 

Responsibilities

• Play a central role in developing and implementing SaaS product experience, including UI / UX for managed cloud services and data-driven visualization
• Strong self-driven execution, ownership, and delivery
• Writing production-level code in Typescript with React
• Strong experience with and commitment to testing (Cypress is our tool of choice)
• While your primary focus will be in Frontend, some of the initiatives will require e2e work which includes API development.
• Work with product, design and other engineers to deliver customer experiences

Skills & Requirements

• 5+ years of UI/UX or front-end development work
• Strong Typescript programming skills and modern JS frameworks experience (React strongly preferred)
• Cares about the smallest details of look & feel, user flows, and UI/UX
• Prior experience of developing backend services, primarily on the API layer.
• Some familiarity with SQL or other data-driven query languages 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Experience writing in Golang is a plus