Job Description

Position Overview

Mixpanel is seeking engineers who are passionate about building exceptional user experiences and solving customer problems. As part of a small, fast-paced engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work across the full stack, from crafting delightful UIs to developing robust backend services. We empower our engineers to own customer issues from ideation through to delivery and maintenance, fostering a culture where "not my problem" is not an option. Our focus on Product-Led Growth means we prioritize creating a user experience that helps customers find answers quickly and easily.

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform designed for builders who need immediate answers from their data, without requiring SQL expertise. By enabling everyone in an organization to understand and learn from their impact on product, marketing, and revenue metrics, we empower better decision-making. Over 9,000 paid customers, including industry leaders like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, rely on Mixpanel to gain insights into their customers and track progress. Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform, making it accessible and trusted by all.

About The Role

Mixpanel engineering is a small team that works quickly, prioritizing getting value to customers and iterating to make those experiences even better. We offer the most powerful product analytics tool while still focusing on making the user experience delightful. The full stack engineers have the freedom to move about the stack to deliver value to customers without being blocked by ownership silos. This means doing everything from building snappy UIs and fast and reliable services to leveraging our powerful query engine to get the customers answers that help them deliver great products. We are looking for folks who seek to understand and own customer problems, participating in every step of the development life cycle from ideation to delivery and maintenance. We encourage ownership and autonomy—if you see customer pain points, you will be empowered to fix them. There is no "not my problem" at Mixpanel. All customer problems are ours to fix. We believe that our UX is a key differentiator, and we invest heavily in UI, aiming for a snappy and intuitive experience. We believe in Product-Led Growth, that even enterprise adoption of software tools starts with individual users and the way to get there is through creating a user experience that gets customers to answers quickly.

Responsibilities

At Mixpanel Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) work closely in pods to define the product and experiences. You'll be collaborating closely with your EPD team to create a vision for delightful and intuitive UX, then work to deliver the most impactful features for our customers. You'll be owning key pieces of the product, maintaining them, and always advocating for improvements to make the user experience even better, adding to our growing shared components library and expanding our design system. You’ll be working on our web app, which is built in Python, running Django, with an open source JavaScript framework running the front end. Everything is run on Google Cloud Platform, using Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration and containerization of our services.

A typical project requires working across our stack, creating endpoints for your feature as well as developing and deploying the UI. Here are some projects we've worked on in the past to give you an idea of what to expect:

• Public Metric Sharing: Developed a feature allowing customers to share their metrics publicly, addressing a customer pain point for easy data sharing on social media or with executive leadership. This involved ensuring security to prevent unintentional data leaks while enabling easier collaboration.
• Live View Rebuild (Events): Rebuilt our Live View from the ground up and rebranded it to Events. The goal was to improve user trust and simplify data debugging and query result analysis. This involved removing limitations, enhancing key workflows, and tightening the user experience. The project also focused on simplifying both backend and frontend architecture for improved performance and maintainability, resulting in a more powerful tool for users and a simpler codebase for developers.
• Dashboards UI Revamp: Revamped our dashboards UI to enhance the workflow for creating and saving analyses, which also clarified our data model. This required iteration and polishing, deepening our understanding of the user experience.

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Company Information

• Company: Mixpanel
• Industry: Analytics Platform
• Customer Base: Over 9,000 paid customers, including Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara.
• Technology Stack: Python, Django, open-source JavaScript framework, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker.