Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · Oakland, CA · Engineering Department

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Reverse ETL product engineering team. This role involves integrating data activation capabilities into the Fivetran product, working across the full tech stack (Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, AWS), and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have expertise in interpreted and compiled languages, relational databases, system integration, and cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS.
  2. Be comfortable “filling in the gaps” in product / design specs. The prospect of being able to prototype to test ideas out before committing to building is exciting to you.
  3. Work closely with our product team, leaders, and customers to help design and develop features that make Fivetran the one-stop shop for data activation.
  4. Mentor early-career engineers, perform thoughtful and constructive code reviews, advise on best practices, provide project-level leadership, operate across teams, departments, and time zones.
  5. Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout

Skills

Required

  • Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases
  • Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development
  • Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Experience being on-call
  • Can build things end-to-end.
  • Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components.
  • Is customer-focused, with an eye for building delightful product experiences and developer experiences.
  • Approaches new problems with a scrappy optimism, with a bias towards action.
  • Thrives in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that build trust and have a huge impact on the business.
  • Present and available online for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with a team distributed across North America.
  • Able to work in-person in our Oakland office 2 days per week.

Nice to have

  • experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus
  • experience with infrastructure management is a bonus