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Tough Leaf · 15 hours ago

Senior / Staff Data Engineer – Matching & Data Quality

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$150K/yr - $200K/yr

Tough Leaf is a company that helps general contractors and agencies connect with certified small, local, and diverse subcontractors. They are seeking a Senior or Staff-level Data Engineer to manage the full data lifecycle, ensuring high-quality data processing and integrity while leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

RetailConstructionSaaSHuman ResourcesB2BProcurementProfessional Networking

Hiring Manager

Hassan Aljanabi

Responsibilities

Own ingestion & normalization for messy, multi-source subcontractor data

Build and harden enrichment pipelines (contacts, websites, capabilities), including automated refresh + backfills

Design and ship deduplication & entity resolution systems that prevent match corruption and “ghost firms”

Create data quality gates: validation rules, monitors, alerts, and safe rollouts that reduce manual QA

Improve how data is surfaced for matching & search (ranking signals, relevance, usability)

Productize enrichment so outcomes are repeatable, measurable, and scalable — not one-off magic

Use AI coding agents daily, but hold a high bar for correctness, testing, and review

Qualification

Data ingestionData normalizationDeduplication systemsEntity resolutionData quality gatesAI coding agentsWeb scrapingSearch & matchingProductized enrichmentStartup experience

Required

You've owned production data systems end-to-end (not just built one-off pipelines)

You think deeply about data quality, invariants, and failure modes

You've shipped deduplication, fuzzy matching, entity resolution, or golden-record systems

You're comfortable with schema drift, inconsistent naming, partial truth, and ambiguity

You have strong code review judgment, especially for logic and correctness

You're AI-native: you use coding agents daily — but you verify, test, and refactor ruthlessly

Preferred

Web scraping & crawling experience (especially resilient refresh systems)

Search & matching experience (ranking, relevance, retrieval systems)

Productized enrichment flows (website crawling, LLM cleanup/structuring, map data)

Startup experience where autonomy, speed, and ownership actually matter

Benefits

Competitive salary + meaningful early-stage equity

Health + Dental + Vision coverage

Work with a small, senior, high-candor team

Real ownership, real impact, real production systems

Build things customers rely on — not dashboards nobody reads

Company

Tough Leaf

Tough Leaf is a platform that helps construction companies manage pre-construction processes.

Founded in 2021

New York, New York, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.toughleaf.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$7.79M

2024-06-28Series A· $4.5M

2022-07-20Seed· $3.1M

2021-12-03Pre Seed· $0.18M

Leadership Team

Wissam Akra, MBA, PE, DBIA

CEO & Founder

Amir Zahlan, P.E.

Co-Founder

Recent News

Newswire

Tough Leaf CEO Wissam Akra Shares on Expanding Access to Small, Local, and Diverse Subcontractors in the Construction Industry on New to The Street

2024-10-23

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