Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)
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- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join our Reverse ETL product engineering team
- Formerly Census, we were acquired in May 2025 to augment Fivetran’s warehouse-first data movement product story
- Now we’re integrating our entire product directly into the Fivetran dashboard, bringing best-in-class data activation to every Fivetran customer
- As a staff software engineer in Reverse ETL, you’ll be on the front lines of integrating data activation capabilities into the Fivetran product along every dimension – authentication, billing, data model, UI and more
- You’ll be a senior member of a distributed, collaborative, agile team of engineers of varying experience levels and diverse backgrounds
- This is a full-time position based out of our Toronto or Oakland office
- Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration
- 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 (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)
- Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)
- Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience being on-call
- What You’ll Do
- Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout
- Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code
- 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
- Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components