Polar Analytics is a Full-Stack Business Intelligence Solution for Consumer Brands. A powerful, yet simple solution for business users to get the insights they need to succeed and make the right decisions.

Our mission is to empower indie DTC brands worldwide to grow faster and more profitably!

What's Unique About Polar Analytics? 💎

• Traction - We've grown to over 3,000 + active merchants as of June 2024, and we're on track to reach 5,000 this year.

• Tech & Product - We leverage the latest advancements of the modern data stack and make it user-friendly to non-technical users.

• Funding Strategy - We're backed by Point9, an exceptional B2B SaaS investor that's renowned for finding Unicorns at an early stage.

• Team - We're a collective of experienced individuals from leading eCommerce SaaS platforms and are on a mission to become the next unicorn.

What we’re looking for

We're looking for individuals who love to create products and have ownership from inception to shipping.

We live in a moment where growing with data has never been more essential: your mission at Polar will be critical. We’re looking for people who love to grow and help customers grow with them.

Finally, we're looking for humble innovators, people who have crazy ideas and who value impact more than anything else.

Why this role?

1. Empower thousands of entrepreneurs to grow their brand, with a product they use daily

2. Build the future of the modern data stack for eCommerce

3. Have strong ownership in a growing Software team, and grow a product that is already used by 1,000+ brands

4. Join us at one of the most exciting moments of our history: we are building the core features of the app with $9M raised and a growth rate of 30% month-over-month

Being an Engineer at Polar Analytics

Getting Stuff Done, Ownership, Excellence, and Agility.

At Polar, engineers have a lot of ownership, as they both build features and make crucial product decisions.

You should join us if you want to ship fast without sacrificing quality, and be a part of a growing team that thrives for excellence.

Our stack

We like to try new things out but most of our stack is built around Typescript back and front, as it increased our productivity individually and as a team. Here are the things we use - and love:

• React

• Typescript

• Node.js (express)

• PostgreSQL / Snowflake

• Micro-services architecture on AWS with terraform

What you will do

• You will build features, even full products from scratch that provide value for users

• Concretely, here are the projects you will work on:

  • Self-serve data exploration: you will contribute to improving our proprietary Metrics API (the synth©) & work on algorithms that involve data querying and processing on TBs of data, at scale. You will also work on the UI/UX that 1000+ brands rely on every day to take better decisions

  • Alerts feature: you will help brands monitor their metrics and receive snapshots and alerts of their data by slack or email

  • Ask Polar: a new text-to-SQL feature based on the latest advancements of chat GPT and LLMs

  • … our backlog is huge. You will work closely with Product to gather and translate requirements into technical solutions to achieve the maximum impact

• You will reason about the design of our existing systems and implement changes

• You will work closely with Product to gather and translate requirements into technical solutions to achieve the maximum impact

The job is made for you if...

• 🤖 You love building products from scratch, and love to have impact on your end user. Our mission is to empower 1000+ brands to take better decisions with data)

• 💃  You have some experience working with data products or it is something that you are curious about.

• 🕐 You have spent a meaningful time (3+ years) as a hands-on engineer

• 🦾 You are fluent with our stack (React, Typescript, Node.js, SQL)

• 🚀  You thrive in a dynamic and fast-changing environment

• 👀 You are curious, with an active technological watch

• 🎖 You have a sense of ownership and responsibility

Your technical expertise:

• You are proficient in writing production-level code in Polar’s core technologies or will quickly learn them

• You have great API design knowledge

• You have exper