Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Soda - creators of Soda Core - are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help improve our Open Source and Cloud products.

We're moving in an exciting new direction, and we need your help. We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend and Frontend) to help us build the platform that catches data problems before they become business problems. If you’re a full stack engineer who thrives on tackling large-scale challenges and wants to build the future of Fully Automated Data Quality, we’d love to hear from you.

Soda’s mission is to monitor the world’s decisions. We’re building the first Data and AI performance monitoring platform that spans data collection to automated decision-making. Soda helps customers find, understand, and fix data quality issues by combining automated post-production monitoring with pre-production pipeline data testing. We enable Data Engineers to effectively own DQ by “shifting left” the data quality initiatives from business to engineering.

Soda was founded in 2019 by Maarten (employee #5 at Collibra, Go-To-Market leadership) and Tom (launched multiple OSS projects generating hundreds of millions in value). Together, they built a tool that ensures data quality across Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business use cases. Our open-source project, Soda Core, is already used by companies like Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda commercializes its software through the Soda Cloud product. We're well-funded, with investors like Point 9 Capital, Hummingbird, Singular, and Eurazeo.

You'll work across our entire backend and frontend stack, from the TypeScript/Angular (latest) frontend to the Java backend services that power Soda Cloud. We need someone who can own features end-to-end, shipping from UI to API without waiting for hand-offs.

We need someone who can hit the ground running. You've shipped production software before. You know what good looks like and you're not afraid to make it happen.

• Build features end-to-end: backend APIs, database changes, frontend UI
• Design and implement backend services for our multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Work with relational databases for persistence (MySQL) - schema design, query optimization, data modeling
• Build frontend features that are clean, fast, and don't get in the way
• Performance optimization across the stack
• Write tests at every layer: unit, integration, e2e

• Java: Solid backend experience. REST APIs, database interactions, async processing.
• TypeScript: Strong experience building SPAs. Angular preferred.
• Frontend: You've built complex UIs. Component architecture, state management, performance optimization, responsive design.
• Testing: You actually write tests. Unit, integration, e2e (Cypress, Playwright, or similar).
• API design: You've designed APIs from the consumer's perspective
• DevOps: You understand DevOps concepts (containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code) and can deploy your own code. You have solid working knowledge of Linux for doing backend and DevOps work.
• Independence: You don't need hand-holding in a distributed, async team
• English: Fluent

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS systems
• Experience in high-growth startups or fast-paced product environments
• Eye for design - you can spot a misaligned pixel
• Experience in the Data Quality, Data Observability, or ML monitoring industry
• Open-source contributions

• Compensation: Up to €120,000/year + equity
• Location: Fully remote (EU timezone, Belgian office available)
• Autonomy: Real ownership, real impact, no micromanagement
• Team: Senior engineers who ship, across 12+ countries
  

We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.

• Be Part of a Transformation: We’re entering a pivotal phase, and your work will define the industry’s future.
• Experience fast growth: Work with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure
• High-Impact Team: Join a senior engineering team that values autonomy, responsibility, and shipping things that matter.
• Ownership from Day One: If you see a bottleneck, you remove it. If you want to try out a new GitOps workflow or optimize Kubernetes scaling, you have the runway.
• International Culture: Our team spans 12+ countries. Learn from different perspectives and collaborate across time zones.
• Work on your own terms: Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!
• Open Source at Scale: Contribute directly to Soda Core, used by household names. Shape features that will reach thousands of engineers.

• Rapidly Changing Priorities: In a fast-moving expansion phase, our roadmap can pivot quickly. It's a fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done.
• Flexibility Required: You will have to learn new things all the time.