Staff Software Engineer

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the role:

Fivetran is looking for a Staff Software Engineer enthusiastic in joining a fast-growing company. You'll help build new features of our data pipeline service, help improve our software architecture, and maintain reliable operation of the service. We're looking for people who want to learn the key values that make our product great, and implement those values in the many small decisions you make every day as a developer.

Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:

- Facilitates Data Analytics  — join our mission is to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.

- Contributes to our Community  — help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful. 

- Is Absolutely Dependable  — work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.

We emphasize using no-nonsense tools, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:

• Create new data source connectors to be part of a product portfolio enjoyed by customers of all sizes- from startups to enterprises
• Develop, maintain, and test code
• Contribute to the efforts to the maintenance and improvement of existing connectors; call for improvement in all areas of Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure
• Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Requirements:

• Writes well-structured and performant code
• Able to define project requirements
• Proficient at designing software and infrastructure
• Java programming experience
• Works well in a team
• Mentors junior and senior developers
• Can identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
• Experience in designing and developing file, event, application, or database connectors
• Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, or similar technologies

Perks and Benefits:

• 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
• Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
• 401k match program
• Eligible donation match program
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
• Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Referral Bonuses
• Stock equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door   
• Annual Camp Fivetran trip that brings together every employee from around the world

We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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