Software Engineer, Backend – Platform

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🕒 March 17

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $198k - $295k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Hex

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

Hex is a collaborative, AI-powered workspace that brings teams together with data. It enables end-to-end workflows, from quick queries to deep-dive analyses, and facilitates the creation of interactive data apps. Hex integrates various tools such as SQL, Python, R, and spreadsheets in a modular, notebook-based canvas, allowing users to generate queries, create visualizations, and perform analyses with ease. The platform supports teamwork by allowing feedback from peers, alignment with stakeholders, and the building of reusable components. Hex also offers a drag-and-drop builder for creating interactive reports and dashboards. With built-in connections to popular data warehouses and databases, Hex simplifies data integration and collaboration for thousands of teams. Its deep integration with tools like dbt, Snowpark for Snowflake, and orchestration frameworks like Airflow enhances its functionality in data science and business intelligence. Hex is designed for security and offers enterprise-grade controls, making it a trusted platform for data teams worldwide.

📋 Description

• work on projects with high technical complexity and spanning across the stack, from backend data systems to frontend of Hex’s collaborative notebook interface • Using DuckDB to enable seamless data interoperability between Python and SQL code written by our users or AI agents • Building intelligent caching systems to speed up customer data queries • Implementing a graph-based dependency framework for optimizing multi-step execution plans • Instrumenting complex, multi-language systems to identify performance bottlenecks • Building visualizations into the product to help users understand the performance characteristics of their code

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience working on complex, data-driven systems or applications • Expert-level understanding of Python, SQL, jupyter kernels, and/or data warehousing systems • Deeply informed on industry trends around data processing, databases, and performant data architectures • You love diving into highly complex codebases and have a passion for designing elegant abstractions that improve correctness and developer productivity • An inexhaustible desire to understand where every millisecond of time could be going • An instinct for strategic thinking and aligning with business and product goals while keeping a healthy balance of velocity and engineering excellence • Experience working in a remote-first team and strong communication skills in this context.

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive total rewards package • market-benched salary • equity • comprehensive health benefits • flexible paid time off