Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

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.

Description

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 application development experience. This includes thoughtful frontend experiences, well-designed backend services, durable APIs, practical architecture, strong testing practices, and a sharp instinct for customer needs.

You will help overhaul the application-facing data products platform, including customer-facing experiences such as data product hubs, market insights, benchmarking workflows, portfolio intelligence, and data-specific agents.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of the 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 offer practical alternatives.
• Turn data science prototypes, analytics concepts, and platform capabilities into production-grade product experiences.
• Bring strong software engineering practices through technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns.
• Support data engineers in expanding software engineering capabilities across frontend, backend, APIs, and production readiness.
• Collaborate across teams where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or customer workflows.
• Use customer signals, usage data, product feedback, and support insights to guide engineering decisions.

Skills and Experience Required

• Staff-level software engineering experience with a track record of leading ambiguous, customer-facing initiatives from idea through production.
• Strong product judgment and customer intuition.
• Full-stack web application experience with backend-leaning depth.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern web application architecture.
• Experience with Python or ability to work effectively in Python-based systems.
• Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, reusable application patterns, and production backend systems.
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with strong testing and operational practices.
• Strong technical communication skills, including design documentation and architecture discussions.
• Collaborative leadership style and mentoring capability.

Preferred

• Experience building data-heavy product experiences such as analytics products, reporting workflows, benchmarking tools, dashboards, or decision-support systems.
• 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 platform technologies.
• Experience in fintech, lending, banking, construction, real estate, compliance-heavy SaaS, or other trust-focused 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).