Staff Backend Engineer-Data/Analytics Team

Hatch

1d•$112,000 - $269,000•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Analytics team. You'll be a technical leader designing and building the data infrastructure that powers business insights for our customers. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering systems that process billions of events.

Requirements

7+ years of backend software engineering experience
Deep expertise in data systems, pipelines, and analytics infrastructure
Proficiency with Go, Python, or similar backend languages
Strong experience with PostgreSQL and data warehousing solutions
Experience building high-throughput data processing systems
Track record of technical leadership and mentoring
Strong system design and architecture skills
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Nice To Haves

Experience with real-time analytics and streaming data (Kafka, Kinesis)
Background with BI tools and dashboard infrastructure
Experience with columnar databases (ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake)
Familiarity with event-driven architectures
Experience building customer-facing analytics products

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable data pipelines and analytics infrastructure
Lead technical architecture decisions for the analytics platform
Mentor and guide other engineers through code reviews and design discussions
Build APIs and services that deliver real-time and historical analytics to customers
Optimize query performance for large-scale data access patterns
Partner with Product to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Collaborate with Data Bridge team on data integration and ETL patterns
Drive engineering best practices and technical excellence