Livedocs
No-code analytics tool for modern teams
Founding fullstack engineer
About the role
About Livedocs
We’re on a quest to give everyone in the world data superpowers. For decades, poor usability and design have limited non-coders from using data to make decisions, measure progress, and run teams. Livedocs is a first-of-its-kind — a no-code analytics tool for modern teams.
Our team believes that enabling every team to wield data without learning how to code, manage pipelines, schemas, or any data drudgery will unlock a new chapter for how modern teams run.
Our goal is to re-imagine data products for teams of today.
Take the product for a spin here
Who we’re looking for
- Fullstack engineer, We ship features end-to-end. You must be an excellent backend (Typescript, Node, GCP) and frontend (NextJS, Tailwind) engineer.
- Great communicator, the ideal candidate can communicate and brainstorm effectively, drive and ship features on their own.
- Builder at heart, ideally have shipped and entire product by yourself or with a very small team
- Data nerd, we’re trying to build a magical data product for modern teams. We feel you must be personally vested in this problem to create meaningful impact in a small team.
About the role
Your day-to-day in this role will involve shipping features and improving existing ones. More specifically, you will mostly be:
- Building UI that enables our users to build data stacks, metrics, and automations for their teams.
- Building and optimizing our backend GraphQL/Apollo API that handles business logic.
- Building web-services that make it all happen: from orchestration, to transforming, ingesting data for Livedocs users
- Writing SQL and Typescript/NodeJS code, working with NextJS, Apollo, Typescript, etc
We’re a distributed, remote async team (🇺🇸 🇦🇪 🇦🇺 🇩🇿 🇺🇦 🇮🇳). Our working style is unique, so here’s some things you should know about us:
- We are hackers at heart. We often venture outside the instruction manual, emboldened by strong technical skills. We are not afraid to break new ground where an existing solution doesn’t exist.
- We are a championship team. We are building paradigm-shifting software, and that requires solving some difficult challenges and consistently operating outside the comfort zone. We work with a sustained high-performance approach, often requiring long hours and good prioritization skills to make ourselves available if we are the blocker on a key task.
- You are ultimately in charge of how much impact you can add. But as a championship team, we make a concerted effort to raise the bar by enabling you to take initiatives with accountability.
- Obsession is key. This extends in every aspect of our work, from beautiful user interfaces, to robust APIs, to meticulous insight into our customers. You must either already be or want to be the best at what you do.
- Both impact and skills are required, not one or the other. We expect you to create impact for our users, team, and product, and support. In return we are here to support your career in whichever direction you want to grow.
Tech we use
Typescript, NodeJS, Type-graphql, Apollo GraphQL, NextJS, Apollo Client, Tailwind, Postgres, Sequelize, GCP (Cloud Run, Memorystore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, etc)
About the interview
We follow a simple and transparent process, designed to find folks who enjoy iterating, move quick, and taking ownership of their work. We aim to wrap the hiring process up in days, not weeks. Here’s how we hire:
- Coffee chat with the CEO about this role: An informal call to get to know you, learn about your goals, and what you want to do at Livedocs. If you are in the Bay Area, then would be great to do this in-person, but remote is good as well.
- Build with the team: Pick a short project to work on, and work async on it. Here are some we’ve used in the past:
- Design a simple data sync engine with rate-limiting between a server and a third-party API
- Build a Hubspot data viewer client (frontend, API, and query resolver)
- Debug and fix existing codebase (API design and frontend)
- Design a new feature for Livedocs (Write a design and engineering spec for a new feature you think would be great for Livedocs)
- Code review: When your solution is ready, you will review it with an engineer from our team
- Offer and chat with the CEO: Let's discuss the details, offer letter, and onboarding. It’s time to build something cool together!
About Livedocs
As a builder, you have many options. You want to work at Livedocs because you:
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Align with our goal of helping teams be data-driven without writing code or SQL. We believe that we can give teams of any size more data visibility by giving them a no-code interface for instant analytics on top of their existing tools — with the flexibility of a note-taking app.
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Want to work in a small team that ships frequently (we ship at a weekly cadence) and be surrounded by the best engineers cranking away at unique problems outside the instruction manual.
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Desire the impact and freedom that come with being one of the first few people in the room, with the option of growing into a management or architect role
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Know the data engineering space quite well, and know that the current state of the tooling is ripe for positive disruption!
Livedocs is backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, like General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, PJC, Unshackled Ventures, YCombinator, Pioneer, and more.
