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$150,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Work directly with external partners to understand technical use cases and guide integrations with APIs and datasets.
  • Design, build, and ship production application and integration code against a PostgreSQL-backed GraphQL API.
  • Collaborate with Datastore engineers, product managers, and scientific teams to translate partner needs into robust data models and tooling.

SQL PostgreSQL Python TypeScript GraphQL

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US

  • Own the design and scaling of the database (Postgres/Supabase) that powers our matching, outreach, and agents.
  • Ensure data quality through validation, dedup, entity resolution, and monitoring.
  • Build ingestion and enrichment pipelines for funding rounds, market news, and company research.

We are a platform where founders come to raise capital, pairing them with investors from a global network and running warm outreach. We are a profitable, self-funded company with a small, senior, flat team that ships fast.

$150,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Lead design and integration of new services for data and event processing.
  • Scale the Datastore’s core infrastructure and implement APIs for clinical studies.
  • Partner with product managers and teams to ensure data integrity and maintainability.

Beacon Biosignals is a precision medicine company focused on brain disorders, using EEG data and AI for biomarker discovery. With nearly 100,000 patient records and a cloud platform, their small team fosters empathy and scientific impact.

US

  • Design, build, and operate end-to-end data infrastructure and solutions for APIs, containerized applications, alerting/reporting, and graph visualizations.
  • Model and deploy relational, document, and graph databases for investigative workflows and large-scale network analysis.
  • Build resilient ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, normalize, and reconcile structured and semi-structured data from multiple sources.

Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company specializing in digital-asset analytics for exchanges, financial institutions, regulators, and blockchain ecosystems. They operate as a fast-paced, nimble, global remote company with a culture of open debate and logic.

US Europe Middle East

  • Design and maintain backend services using Python/FastAPI/TypeScript/Express, including secure REST APIs, SSE streams, and WebSocket-based features.
  • Own PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, transactions, and query performance, and integrate external data providers with authentication, pagination, and rate limits.
  • Build unit, contract, and database-backed integration tests, and instrument services with structured logging to diagnose production failures.

Ruya AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company building AI-native intelligent software for sovereign institutions operating in mission-critical environments. Headquartered in Massachusetts with offices across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, we are expanding our engineering team with people who demonstrate strong ownership and sound judgment.

Global

  • Build and own Fundable's core backend including customer-facing APIs, AI microservices, and a workflow builder.
  • Lead architecture decisions, implementation, and deployment with TypeScript/Node.js or Python, PostgreSQL, and cloud platforms.
  • Work directly with founders in a high-autonomy role to solve ambiguous problems and ship production systems.

Fundable provides real-time startup data and signals that help growth teams find new startup customers and help investors source their next deals. It is a small, fast-moving team that values high autonomy and an AI-first approach.

Global

  • Design backend systems and APIs (Python preferred) that run real-time, business-critical accounting logic.
  • Ship features end to end - architecture, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and beyond.
  • Integrate third-party tools and external systems, proactively managing edge cases and risk.

DualEntry is building the OS for finance, an AI-native ERP that automates accounting from data entry to close. They have raised over $100M from top venture firms and serve customers from startups to public companies, hiring high-agency outliers who have achieved difficult things.

Global Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Partner directly with customers to identify data challenges and design technical solutions, connecting data sources and automating workflows.
  • Deploy and optimize AI-powered tools and workflows for customers, educating them on prompt engineering and LLM best practices.
  • Build and extend internal tooling (importers, parsers, and reporting pipelines) to reduce manual burden and improve platform reliability.

Standard Metrics is an AI-driven financial data platform that helps investors and portfolio companies make informed decisions with automated reporting and benchmarking tools. We are a team of optimistic product builders backed by 8VC and Spark Capital, trusted by top VC/PE firms.

$90,000–$170,000/yr

  • Build scalable backend systems to serve millions of users and integrate with third-party software like Payments, Accounting, and CRMs.
  • Optimize the GraphQL backend for fast performance and create generic systems for billing, document creation, and task workflows.
  • Ship code, conduct code reviews, and participate in architecture docs and design handoffs.

Supermove is bringing technology to the moving industry, an industry previously untouched by software, aiming to radically uplift the moving experience. They are a 40-person team of alums from Pinterest, Asana, Facebook, and Google, and recently raised $18M Series A from a16z.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build the backend services that power Operator, a system that helps engineering teams search company knowledge and surface design decisions.
  • Develop scalable retrieval pipelines, integrate structured and unstructured engineering data, and improve search quality and knowledge retrieval performance.
  • Collaborate with AI, Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities and mentor teammates through code reviews and technical leadership.

CoLab is an AI platform that helps mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market faster by driving stronger engineering decisions. It is a rapidly scaling company recognized on Deloitte's Fast 50 and Fast 500, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

Europe South America

  • Triage incoming tickets from internal teams and clients to diagnose underlying problems.
  • Ship fixes, automations, and small tools that solve immediate operational needs.
  • Identify patterns across tickets and build durable solutions to prevent recurrence.

Extenteam is an AI-driven operations platform for short-term rental property managers. With over 80,000 properties, they combine AI automation with human-in-the-loop oversight.

Canada

  • Design, scale, and performance-tune GraphQL APIs, gRPC services, and SQL queries for the promotions engine.
  • Own technical problems of high scope and complexity, presenting proposals to leadership.
  • Mentor engineers across teams through specs, pairing, and code review.

PENN Entertainment is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. With locations throughout North America, the company is committed to supporting employee growth and offers a fun, relaxed work environment.

  • Curate and deliver media datasets end-to-end, from raw data to final packages.
  • Translate customer AI data requirements into curation strategies with messy data.
  • Build scripts and QA workflows to improve delivery speed and consistency.

We provide recruitment and staffing services to various industries through innovative solutions. We are highly trained business professionals with a strong understanding of client needs.

$65,000–$85,000/yr
US

  • Spearhead custom technical solutions for client onboarding, designing sustainable data integrations beyond core product development.
  • Collaborate with the Implementations team to evaluate client data, define scope, and establish timelines and effort estimates.
  • Write robust, scalable code adhering to best practices, and create reusable tools to enhance operational efficiency.

TrueAccord, a wholly owned subsidiary of TrueML, transforms debt resolution using machine learning and a human-based approach to guide lenders and consumers toward financial health. With a world-class leadership team and proprietary predictive models, they serve millions of Americans annually.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Build foundational systems across PostgreSQL, GCP, and internal tooling.
  • Develop shared infrastructure for agentic systems, including frameworks, evals, and harnesses.
  • Collaborate with engineering and non-engineering teams to improve developer velocity and scalability.

Ambrook rebuilds financial infrastructure for American family-run businesses, modernizing accounting, banking, and spending. We're a Series A startup backed by Thrive Capital, with an early team focused on empowering the stewards of land and labor.

UK US

  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows and define the problem, building production systems on Luma's APIs.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system, prototyping and iterating with real data.
  • Build around platform gaps and feed patterns back to R&D; use AI to accelerate while relying on engineering judgment.

Luma builds unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.

US

  • Support clients in implementing and adopting Lightcast data solutions, including APIs and Snowflake Data Shares.
  • Collaborate with Account Managers and Sales Engineers to guide clients through technical integration and troubleshooting.
  • Act as a post-sale technical resource, resolving customer issues and helping maximize solution value.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights, helping organizations understand and leverage workforce data. The company operates globally with offices in the US, UK, Europe, and India, and partners across six continents.

$100,000–$160,000/yr
North America

  • Bridge the gap between customers' legacy reporting environments and the future of agentic data exploration.
  • Reverse-engineer complex marketing reports and translate them into Hightouch's aCDP with rigorous accuracy.
  • Architect and maintain the semantic context layer that powers our chat-based reporting features.

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, we are a certified Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CDPs, trusted by enterprises like Domino's and Spotify, and we value humility, kindness, and ambition.

$146,000–$182,500/yr
Canada 4w PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and services that power our AI workflow platform at scale.
  • Own complex projects end-to-end from architecture through production with full ownership and quick iteration.
  • Collaborate with a remote-first team to ship multiple times per day, using AI coding tools to accelerate development.

We're building an AI-native platform that helps marketing and creative teams at top e-commerce brands understand which ads are working and ship more winning creative across major ad platforms. We're a Series B remote-first team, currently under 100 headcount, growing 2.5x year over year, led by second-time founders.

Europe

  • Partner with sales to provide technical expertise and prove out use cases.
  • Build and present Proofs of Concept to showcase Omni's value.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to guide product direction.

Omni is the AI analytics platform that turns company data into a trusted source of truth for AI. Based in San Francisco, CA, Omni has raised $217M from top investors and is valued at $1.5B.

US

  • Own end-to-end product areas across Ingestion, Reverse ETL, Observability, and Catalog, translating complex technical challenges into clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
  • Go deep on data infrastructure, including database replication (Postgres WAL, MySQL binlog), CDC, sync performance, and schema evolution, to drive better product decisions.
  • Be the voice of US customers, uncovering pain points and validating product direction through regular conversations with real-world data teams.

Matia is building a unified DataOps platform that streamlines data management end-to-end, enabling faster, smarter decisions with less tool sprawl. They are a venture-backed startup with a small team, trusted by companies like Ramp and Outsystems, and are shaping the future of data confidence.