Backend Engineer, Platform

About Hightouch

We are a very fast growing and close-knit team of 13, headquartered in San Francisco, but located around the world. We just raised a Series A and are able to offer competitive compensation, benefits, and PTO. Everyone in Hightouch gets tremendous ownership of their work, and we collaborate closely as a team.

The Role

We're looking for a product-minded backend engineer to lead the development of extending the Hightouch platform. Our platform consists of integrations for sources of data (databases, warehouses) as well as integrations for all of the places data can be sent to. Each integration in our platform serves as a new use case that Hightouch can solve for. Today, Hightouch integrates with dozens of the most common tools across many categories. However, new and existing customers request integrations every week to expand the capabilities of Hightouch.

While primarily a backend engineering role, you'll channel many different skill sets as part of this role:

• Product management - ensuring the capabilities of an integration meet the customer requirements
• Customer success - personally onboarding customers and ensuring that the integration is working for them
• UX - is the integration clearly documented and easy to use?

The day-to-day will include extending the Hightouch platform with new sources and destinations, adding depth to existing integrations, evaluating UX decisions, and interacting directly with customers.

Desired Skills

• You have 1-3 years of programming experience
• You have JavaScript or TypeScript experience
• You're driven by getting your work into the hands of happy users
• You have excellent communication skills and enjoy collaboration with coworkers and customers
• You strive to write simple, understandable code that others can easily read
• You have an understanding of key backend engineering and distributed system principles

Preferred (Not Required)

• Experience with queueing systems such as Kafka or Kinesis
• Knowledge of various database / storage systems and know when to choose which
• Advanced SQL knowledge
• Experience contributing to open source projects