Backend Software Engineer

Posted 5 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Boston, MA
Remote
Entry level
Big Data • Cloud • Productivity • Software • Database • Analytics • Automation
Jellyfish empowers Engineering leaders with insights to effectively align their work with business objectives.
The Role
As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll build and enhance data ingestion processes, implement observability tools, develop internal support tools, and participate in agile planning while contributing technical expertise and supporting production operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. We’re in search of a backend engineer who’s passionate about performance, scaling, and working with a lot of data. Ideally, you’re performance minded and have worked on data ingestion and ETL processes. Experience building internal tools to triage and debug issues is a plus. This is a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency: where you can help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them.

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

  • Develop and improve upon data ingestion from external sources (e.g. Jira/Git) into Jellyfish

  • Implement observability and metrics tooling

  • Develop internal tools to enable teams to better support our customers

  • Handle customer escalations related to data ingestion

  • Design, plan and implement key features as part of a highly effective agile team

  • Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization

  • Communicate effectively about project status, technical issues

  • Participate in your team’s agile process and work to continually improve your team’s capabilities

  • Provide support for production operations of the Jellyfish product

  • Actively participate in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on your team

About you:

  • You know how to build and scale data ingestion pipelines

  • You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience

  • You have familiarity with observability and profiling 

  • You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing

  • You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution

  • You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others

  • You have strong communication skills, and enjoy working as part of a team

  • You are eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer

  • Located in EST or CST time zone

Bonus points if:

  • You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it

  • You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

We believe that it takes a diverse team to build the best company we can. Jellyfish welcomes people from all backgrounds and especially encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in the software industry.

A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great, but humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must.

Occasional travel may be required.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Let’s talk about us!

This is all about you, but you want to know a little about us. Jellyfish was started in 2017 as a team of three with one big idea: engineering is the core of modern business, so let’s create and manage it that way! With the help of our customers, we have built the first Engineering Management Platform, providing visibility into engineering organizations, their work, and how they operate. We enable leaders to align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software efficiently and on time. 

Top Skills

Python

What the Team is Saying

Ben Kotrc
Sydney Bufkin
Daniel Boaitey
Andrew Lau
Jevin Koleth
The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
206 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Jellyfish is the pioneer Engineering Management Platform that enables engineering leaders to align engineering work with strategic business objectives. By analyzing engineering signals and contextual business data, Jellyfish provides complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate. Companies like SessionM (A Mastercard Company), Medium, and Toast use Jellyfish to optimize the allocation of engineering resources to focus their teams on what matters most to the business.

Why Work With Us

Across the company, we’re excited to advance our mission, to build a product that customers love, and to help companies large and small accomplish their goals. We value a healthy work-life balance, career growth, and a friendly office culture.

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Jellyfish Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Our hybrid policy allows employees to work however they work best. Whether that is at home or in-person at our Boston office, we encourage our employees to engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQBoston, MA
Our company is in a new beautiful office space overlooking Post Office Square and downtown Boston. We are surrounded by many cafes, restaurants, and shops. Plus, the office is easy to get to with multiple train stops close by, bike racks and parking underground.

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