Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

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HexData analytics
Remote - US; fully remote anywhere within the US Eastern timezone, US Eastern timezoneFull-TimeSenior
Salary$198,750 - $295,000; Offers Equity
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Job Details

Experience
6+ years of engineering experience
Required Skills
PythonSQL

Requirements

  • Have 6+ years of engineering experience working on complex, data-driven systems or applications.
  • Bring expert-level understanding of Python, SQL, Jupyter kernels, and/or data warehousing systems.
  • Be deeply informed about industry trends in data processing, databases, and performant data architectures.
  • Be comfortable working in highly complex codebases.
  • Have a passion for designing abstractions that improve correctness and developer productivity.
  • Have experience working in a remote-first team.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the core compute platform for code execution, SQL querying, and data processing across the Hex application.
  • Use DuckDB to enable data interoperability between Python and SQL code written by users or AI agents.
  • Build caching systems to speed up customer data queries.
  • Implement a graph-based dependency framework to optimize multi-step execution plans.
  • Instrument complex, multi-language systems to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Build product visualizations that help users understand the performance characteristics of their code.
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