Secoda

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CA$120,000 – CA$150,000Compensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Enterprise Software, Data & AnalyticsIndustries

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Position Overview

Secoda makes data exploration and usage intuitive, fast, and useful. We prioritize candidates who are ambitious, self-starters, and great teammates. We value ownership and believe every employee should have an impact on Secoda and its mission. A Senior Full-stack Software Engineer at Secoda will contribute to customers' experience using Secoda and the overall success of the company. You’ll collaborate closely with design, product management, engineering, and marketing to shape our onboarding experience, improve our product-led growth motion, and influence our product roadmap. We value your problem-solving skills, technical acumen, and ability to communicate complex ideas.

  • Location Type: Hybrid (Tuesdays, Thursdays + every other Friday)
  • Job Type: Full-Time
  • Salary: CA$120K - CA$150K

Requirements

  • Experience: At least 4-6+ years of industry experience working as a software engineer, ideally in a growth engineering capacity.
  • Technical Skills:
    • Fundamental understanding of React (TypeScript)
    • Familiarity with Python (Django)
    • Knowledge of Postgres
    • Experience with AWS
  • Communication Skills: Proficiency in communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Soft Skills: Supportive, able to autonomously figure out solutions, empathetic to users, values clear communication, naturally curious, and willing to learn.

Responsibilities

  • Work with designers and product managers on our user onboarding experience.
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand opportunities to improve our product-led growth funnel.
  • Work with the engineering team to increase the scalability of Secoda’s platform (e.g., React component performance and reusability).
  • Work with the customer success team to help diagnose and fix bugs.
  • Work with the product team to guide the roadmap towards features that help solve the most important problems for customers.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Building integrations for Modern Data Stack tools, i.e., Snowflake, Looker, dbt.

Company Information

About Secoda

Secoda makes the experience of exploring and using data as intuitive, fast, and useful as using Google Search.

What We Offer

  • 💰 Competitive salary and equity
  • 🩺 Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day 1
  • $1000 Healthcare Spending Account
  • $500 Taxable Spending Account
  • 🏝 Unlimited time off policy
  • 👪 Mat and Pat leave top-up
  • 📚 Learning & Development benefit ($1,000)
  • 💻 Equipment & $500 home office setup stipend
  • 🥳 Team activities and retreats to connect with your fellow teammates
  • 💛 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join a fast-growing start-up

Hybrid Office Policy

  • Tuesdays, Thursdays + every other Friday.

Skills

React
TypeScript
Python
Django
Postgres
AWS
Communication
Problem-Solving

Secoda

Data management and enablement platform

About Secoda

Secoda provides a platform for data management and enablement, helping organizations track, document, and discover their data efficiently. The platform is especially useful for businesses that deal with large amounts of data, ensuring that it is accessible, understandable, and trustworthy. Key features include data lineage tracking, which shows the origin and flow of data, and comprehensive data documentation tools that help create data dictionaries and metadata repositories. This functionality enhances transparency and trust in the data used by teams. Secoda serves a wide range of clients, from small startups to large enterprises, and operates on a subscription model, allowing clients to access various features based on their needs. The goal of Secoda is to provide a single source of truth for data, improving collaboration and productivity within data-centric organizations.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2021Year Founded
$15.6MTotal Funding
SERIES_ACompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
11-50Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Professional Development Budget
Home Office Stipend
Hybrid Work Options
Company Social Events

Risks

Increased competition from established platforms like Alation and Collibra.
Potential customer resistance due to existing investments in other data management tools.
Challenges in scaling to meet the needs of larger enterprises.

Differentiation

Secoda centralizes data knowledge, reducing the need to switch between multiple tools.
It offers AI-powered data search, enhancing data discovery and accessibility.
Secoda supports real-time multiplayer editing, improving collaborative data analysis.

Upsides

Secoda raised $14M to expand its AI-driven data cataloging platform.
The rise of data democratization aligns with Secoda's mission, potentially expanding its user base.
Integration with AI-driven data quality tools enhances data accuracy and reliability.

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