What You Will DoAs the most senior individual contributor on Alchemer's analytics and data visualization products, you'll spend your days building, bringing the judgment and independence to figure out how a hard problem should be solved. This is a full-stack role, but with acknowledgement that "the stack" is so large these days, a bias towards front-end is perfectly okay: we want people who are well rounded, not simply domain experts in one specific framework or language. You'll work closely with engineering leadership and product managers on the direction for a product, then own getting it built well, while setting the technical standard other engineers work to.
How You Will Spend Your Days- Make major hands-on contributions to Alchemer's analytics products, including building new
services and interfaces, leading significant changes, and maintaining the existing portfolio.
Stability and quality are non-negotiable for systems customers depend on for reporting. - Contribute to architectural designs and systemic processes at a level beyond merely writing
code to build reliable, scalable, and durable products that can integrate with other Alchemer
systems and platforms. - Take substantial initiatives from concept through to production, owning the technical
approach and adjusting it as the reality of a business operates. - Build and optimize the services, pipelines, and query paths behind the analytics products,
where correctness and performance at volume turn into multiplicative problems if unchecked. - Design and build APIs and embed surfaces meant to be consumed by others, including
internal teams, customers, and partners, where ease of use, simple design, and
interoperability are key. - Build the front-end that users engage with, working with UX to produce experiences that hold
up under real data volumes. - Work with product managers and subject matter experts to shape requirements into
something buildable, weighing trade-offs between usability, cost, and query performance. - Bring technical judgment to sprint and release planning, including a clear-eyed view of what
enhancements, bug fixes, and technical debt actually cost while knowing not all tech debt is
inherently "bad." - Build AI and ML capabilities into analytics products, including retrieval, natural-language
query, and generated-insight features. - Use usage data, query telemetry, and customer feedback to find and fix performance
bottlenecks. - Contribute to CI/CD processes that allow for smoother releases and increasing team and
business confidence. - Identify and help resolve roadblocks impeding software development.
- Mentor engineers, raise the bar on code review and design review, and share knowledge
rather than concentrate it. We don't like silos! - Consider the full lifecycle of what you build, from initial conception to launch, through
maintenance, all the way to sunsetting
What You Bring to this Role- You have at least 10 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably but not
as a requirement with significant depth in data-intensive or analytics applications. - You are well rounded across the stack, perhaps with your center of gravity on the front end,
and React in particular. Specialties are expected and welcome; nobody is equally strong
everywhere. - Your breadth of experience matters more than your alignment with any particular set of
languages or tools. Solving varied problems in varied environments counts for more than a
résumé that matches our languages, frameworks, and tooling line for line. - You have a command of databases, data structures, query optimization, and data modeling.
- You can reason about why a dashboard is slow and fix it at the right layer.
- You have worked with or have a good familiarity with analytics, BI, or data visualization
platforms, whether integrating them, embedding them, or building alternatives to them. - You build front-ends for the expectations and considerations of users, being able to get into
the mind of a user rather than merely build an interface. - You believe in understanding why work is being done, not just implementing code and moving
to the next task. When you see a gap, ambiguity, or missing scenario, you raise it rather than
build around it. - You have a desire for frequent if not continuous software releases rather than "big bang"
releases. - You are deeply experienced with the full software development lifecycle, including application
code, unit/integration/automation testing, documentation, and performance and security
engineering. - You work well with other engineers and are willing to spend your time making them better.
Mentorship, review, and knowledge sharing are part of the job, not a distraction from it. - You communicate and collaborate well across technical and non-technical, internal and
external, audiences. Your stakeholders are more than just engineers. - You have adopted AI tooling in your workflow, knowing how it can improve your own efficacy
but as another tool in your toolbox, not a substitute for genuine knowledge and experience.
The Stack You'll Work In
Back-end: Python (primarily), TypeScript, PHP (legacy)
Front-end: TypeScript with React
Data platforms: Databricks, Lakebase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ThoughtSpot
Cloud: AWS, Databricks
CI/CD: GitHub (primarily), Bitbucket and Jenkins (legacy)
Compensation for this position includes an annual base salary of $170,000 to $185,000 with eligibility to participate in our Employee Participation Unit program.
Alchemer provides a rich benefits package that includes health and disability coverages, an incredible 401(k) option that includes a per-payroll match and immediate vesting, unlimited time off and twelve paid company holidays.
