ClearAngel is building YC for the 99% of founders. Those who traditionally don’t have access to advice, capital or network -- we want to support that long tail. 

Most founders don't live in Silicon Valley or have the pristine pedigree to get in front of the "right" people. For far too long, startups have played on a scarcity model.

This is limiting the potential of founders. We fundamentally believe that great founders and companies are everywhere. Where there are problems, opportunities exist. We want to empower those founders. 

We are building ClearAngel to democratize access to advice, network and capital.

We do this by scaling access to the rest of the world:

• Access to advice (knowledge, resources)
• Access to network (intros, people, community)
• Access to capital

The role of the Senior Data Engineer is to lead and build pipelines and solutions for the analytic and product challenges surrounding the features and vision of the Clear Angels product and platform.  Your responsibilities will be a superset of a typical Senior Data Engineer, as there are often experiments and uncertainty that require creative solutioning at the earliest stages.  

Responsibilities: 

• You will own data products end to end, from design and architecture to deployment and maintenance, leading others where necessary through development
• Working closely with every member of the team, vendors and external partners, you will produce significant components of the ClearAngel code
• Collaborate with all functions of Clearco, ranging from core Engineering team to Data Science team to the marketing team
• You be in constant communication with the team to understand what features of the platform need to be built out, and solve bug fixes when necessary
• You will scope out business needs for ClearAngel, and action them with speed and accuracy and then lead and execute on it yourself.
• You will run and participate in founder townhalls, communicating closely with early-stage entrepreneurs
• When it comes to product and engineering on ClearAngel, buck stops with you. Coordinate, roll up your sleeves, do what’s necessary to get the ball moving forward

What we look for:

• Great communication skills, with a desire or experience to lead a small team of other devs in the near future
• Desire to help founders. We take a strong founder first stance on this team
• Be self sufficient when it comes to execution. Figure out how to solve problems and make things happen, not waiting for help or permission
• On this team, we maximize learning. You will fail if you're not learning fast enough
• Comfort working in a high growth, constantly changing environment
• Heavy bias towards action. Ability to solve problems end-to-end on their own. You will implement ideas and experiments on your own with minimal support
• Have experience working in a senior software engineering role, you are an expert when it comes to coding and you’re ready to roll up your sleeves to get the job done! 
• Have a strong business sense, you can foresee potential issues and solve them quickly
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams
• Strong interest in building businesses, ecommerce and fintech

Technical Requirements:

• Ideally, you have worked on 3 or more different stacks in your career in a professional setting for at least 8 months each.  This means you probably have between 2 years and 6 years of experience.  Bonus points for systems managing time-series
• Able to architect and scale data integrations (shopify, paypal, plaid, etc.) from third-party API docs independently, extracting the right business value for the vision and roadmap of Clear Angel
• Interested and able to prototype solutions that might not scale to 1,000,000 users but can get the job done while we derisk the business outcomes
• Comfortable working in server and database environments that are changing constantly
• Comfortable in a fast pace, changing roadmap team building the plane after jumping off the cliff
• Comfortable with relational databases and schemas involving time-series
• Skills and interest in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes and pipeline management/orchestration tools (Eg. Airflow)