Founding Data Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
New York City, NY, USA
In-Office
170K-240K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Design
Your intelligent canvas.
The Role
The role involves building data infrastructure, designing data models, evaluating technologies for data warehousing, and creating BI dashboards to inform product strategy. Candidates must have strong SQL and experience in data engineering with an autonomous working style.
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About FLORA

We build creative tools for the new creative class: an intelligent canvas with top AI models built for professional craft. We're a team of ~40 backed by Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, a16z and other notable investors including Guillermo Rauch and Justin Kan. Our customers include Pentagram, Lionsgate, and Nike.

About the role

We're hiring a Senior or Staff Data Engineer to build FLORA's data function from scratch. You'd be the first data hire, working directly with the CTO and Head of Product to define what data means here: how we capture it, store it, analyze it, and turn it into decisions.

You'll wire up our warehousing and pipelines, pin down the metrics that actually matter (activation moments, power users, engagement quality), and build dashboards that get used. Our PostHog telemetry is live. The broader data model is yours to design.

You'll work closely with our growth engineering team: you design the tracking model, they instrument against it. Vendor decisions are yours too, picking BI tooling, making the infrastructure calls that'll hold as we scale.

What you'll do

  • Audit existing PostHog data, events, and user behaviors

  • Design and implement data models with solid metadata collection

  • Stand up data infrastructure, warehousing, and processing pipelines

  • Evaluate and select core technologies

  • Build executive-level BI dashboards that drive product and growth decisions

We're looking for

  • 6+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering (former people managers returning to IC work are strongly encouraged)

  • Proven ability to work on your own; you're the first data hire and we're counting on your judgment

  • Deep SQL fluency and strong fundamentals in at least 1 modern data platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, ClickHouse, MotherDuck etc.)

  • Hands-on infrastructure experience: you've set up pipelines, defined schemas, made tooling decisions from scratch

  • Strong product instincts and real business curiosity; you know what to measure, what's vanity, and how to frame findings for stakeholders

  • A hypothesis-driven approach; you ask questions about the business, not just the query

  • Comfort in hypergrowth; you can build fast and build for scale

  • Availability to work in-person 5 days a week

Nice to have

  • Python proficiency (preferred, though we're flexible on other languages)

  • TypeScript; we're a full-stack TS shop and you'll collaborate closely with engineers

  • Deep PostHog experience (cohorts, funnels, feature flags, warehouse sync)

  • Experience with activation models, conversion rate analysis, and A/B testing

  • Background in SaaS/web app analytics, or adjacent fields like supply chain or finance

  • Experience with creative tools or product-led growth companies

Top Skills

Bi Tooling
BigQuery
Clickhouse
Databricks
Posthog
Python
Snowflake
SQL
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
74 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools. FLORA has all the best creative AI models on one infinite canvas, which you can connect together to concept rapidly and build generate workflows. We're growing the team. Learn more at florafauna.ai/careers.

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