Skyrocket Ventures · 9 hours ago
Sr. to Staff Engineer opening - Investment Tech Startup
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$350K/yr - $350K/yrSkyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for high growth technology companies, and they are seeking a Sr. to Staff Engineer for an Investment Tech Startup. The role involves building scalable systems, driving the technical foundation for AI-powered tools, and collaborating with leadership to align technical vision with business priorities.
EmploymentRecruiting
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Matthew Strassberg
Responsibilities
Building scalable, reliable systems to ingest, normalize, and enrich data from thousands of sources. We have built out an entire data pipeline using LLMs to source data, and you will oversee taking it to the next level and scaling it
Driving the technical foundation for new AI-powered tools that automate workflows
Breaking apart monolithic systems into event-driven services that enable faster iteration and cleaner abstractions
Collaborating with the CTO to establish backend best practices and coding standards, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor the engineering team
Partnering with product and leadership to align technical vision with business priorities
Building high-quality datasets from noisy and inconsistent raw inputs, including LLM-enriched data
Designing and implementing a new API suite to provide data to integration partners
Creating internal monitoring and visibility tools for large-scale data pipelines
Driving engineering “cost/time estimationsˮ to inform our product roadmap
Qualification
Required
Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed–Series A preferred)
Speed; you can code much faster than your peers; you have expertise using the latest AI tooling for coding and developer workflows, and you have a mentality of constantly getting faster as a developer each passing month
Deep proficiency in TypeScript or a typed functional language such as Scala, Rust, or Haskell; adaptable across languages
Proven track record architecting systems and building codebases from scratch
Excited to take technical ownership and set the direction for backend engineering
Open to people leadership; a natural mentor who leads by example. You won't be expected to lead/manage from day 1, but should be open to eventually leading a team
Thrive in a high-velocity environment, delivering extensible systems quickly without sacrificing quality
Proactive, pragmatic, and thoughtful, with a strong sense of ownership
Benefits
Up to 1% in equity
Company
Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for high growth technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 2010
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase