Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Built is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team and lead the next generation of customer-facing data product experiences.

In this role, you will build the application layer where data products are discovered, accessed, and used by customers. You will work across frontend, backend, APIs, services, and data-backed application workflows to turn platform capabilities into intuitive product experiences.

The team has deep data engineering expertise and is seeking a product-minded software engineer with strong full-stack development experience. This includes frontend experiences, well-designed backend services, durable APIs, practical architecture, strong testing practices, and a focus on delivering customer value.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and delivery of application-facing data products platform, including product surfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend flows, and reusable patterns.
• Build full-stack customer experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and related technologies.
• Partner with Product to shape ambiguous ideas into useful customer workflows and challenge low-value requirements.
• Turn data science prototypes and analytics concepts into production-grade product experiences.
• Apply strong software engineering practices including technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns.
• Support data engineers in expanding their software engineering capabilities across frontend, backend, APIs, and production readiness.
• Collaborate across teams where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or workflows.
• Use customer signals, usage data, feedback, and discovery learnings to guide engineering decisions.

Skills and Experience Required

• Staff-level software engineering experience leading customer-facing initiatives from idea through production.
• Strong product judgment and ability to assess customer value.
• Full-stack web application experience with backend-leaning depth.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern web architecture.
• Experience with Python or ability to work effectively in Python-based systems.
• Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, reusable patterns, and production backend systems.
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with strong testing and operational practices.
• Strong technical communication skills and collaborative leadership style.
• Bias toward customer value over technology for its own sake.

Preferred

• Experience building data-heavy product experiences, analytics products, reporting workflows, dashboards, or decision-support tools.
• Experience working with data engineers, analytics engineers, or data scientists.
• Experience with AI or agentic product experiences.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Materialize, or similar data technologies.
• Experience in fintech, lending, banking, construction, real estate, compliance-heavy SaaS, or similar domains.
• Experience with product instrumentation, experimentation, and usage-based iteration.
• Experience mentoring engineers from adjacent disciplines.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $170,000 - $240,000 USD per year.
• Equity in the form of stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO policy.
• Learning Grant program for professional development.
• 401k with match and expedited vesting (US only).

Travel Requirement

• Non-local candidates must be able to travel at minimum twice per year to Nashville, TN or another designated location for company-wide events. Additional travel may be required based on business needs.