Software Engineer

About YipitData:

YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and recently raised up to $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B.

We analyze billions of alternative data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights on ridesharing, e-commerce marketplaces, payments, and more. Our on-demand insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on.

For three years and counting, we have been recognized as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. We are a fast-growing technology company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners. Our offices are located in NYC, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore. We cultivate a people-centric culture focused on mastery, ownership, and transparency.

We are hiring 2 software engineers (alternative title: backend engineer). One will join our Infrastructure Team, and the other will join our Data Feeds Team. 

This is a fully-remote opportunity based in India. Standard work hours are from 8 am to 5 pm IST. You are also expected to be flexible in working hours sometimes to participate in the US, China, India collaboration.

 

As Our Software Engineer in the Infrasturction Team, You Will 

• Build expertise in different email providers, such as gmail, outlook, yahoo, exchange etc.
• Work on email strategy adjustment, performance improvement, email storage, how to do high availability and scalability
• Be responsible for the email system’s data storage and related improvements.
• Understand business requirements and participate in discussions with the different stakeholders to design technical solutions.
• Be creative and study new technologies in the space, make sure high availability and scalability for email systems.
• Maintain existing service,  working on iterative upgrades, deploy improvement, and service governance.

As Our Software Engineer in the Data Feeds Team, You Will 

• Develop, optimize, and maintain scalable data pipelines for structured and unstructured data processing.
• Maintain and enhance the stability, reliability, and high availability of existing data systems and services.
• Collaborate with the team to build and refine an expandable, high-performance data architecture.
• Partner with various teams to deliver high-quality, dependable data services to internal users.
• Understand product and business requirements to design and implement data functionalities, including intuitive data visualizations.
• Oversee the integration and maintenance of collaborative data with third-party clients, addressing their data mining and analytical requirements.
• Work closely with the US, Singapore and China team, adapting to flexible work hours as needed.
• Enforce best practices in data governance, security, and compliance to protect sensitive information.

 

You Are Likely To Succeed If you have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related majors, 2+ yrs backend experience.
• Solid computer foundation and programming skills, familiar with common data structures and algorithms.
• 2+ years experience in one of the following languages: Go/Python.
• Familiar with one of open source components:Mysql/Redis/Message Queue/Nosql.
• Experience in architecture and developing large-scale distributed systems.(for infrastructure team)
• Familiarity with one or more of the following: Spark, Hadoop, Hive, or Elasticsearch.(for data feeds team)
• Excellent logic analysis capabilities, able to abstract and split business logic reasonably.
• Familiarity with email protocols(IMAP/SMTP) is a plus.

 

What We Offer:

Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary: 

• We care about your personal life and we mean it. We offer vacation time, parental leave, team events, learning reimbursement, and more!
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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