Software Engineer, APIs & Data Feeds

Develop a state-of-the-art product. Make sense of the future. Use data to drive business. 

At CB Insights, we build a market intelligence platform that helps our customers make sense of the future and drive their businesses forward using data. Our system retrieves large amounts of data in real time on the private market, and then extracts knowledge and insights from that data. We present those analytics and insights through various channels including a dynamic web user interface, mobile app, APIs, and data feeds, which enables our clients to make strategic business decisions around corporate strategy, innovation, investments, etc. 

We are hiring for engineering roles for our API and data feeds team to help drive our business forward. The API and data feeds interfaces serve a crucial role in our customers’ strategic decision making processes across their organizations and are an important growth area for CB Insights.

The Role You’ll Play

Here at CB Insights, our software engineers build robust and scalable services and data processing pipelines/jobs with an explicit focus on delivering value to our customers. As an engineer on the API and data feeds team, you will play an important role in expanding our API platform to make it easier to use and expose new and interesting data points that help our customers make critical and timely decisions. 

About the team:

We have the opportunity to build an API platform that gets used by some of the largest companies in the world as well as strategic software and data partners. At the same time, we take pride in working closely with our data and marketing teams. We get direct feedback from our users while helping drive our core business.  Working in the CBI engineering department is unique. Since we are a smaller team without a lot of bureaucracy, we are able to really push the envelope without going through a lot of red tape. It is also a great team to learn from others and grow in your career, as well as a chance to enact any ideas you may bring to the table. We’re a very open and friendly group.

Your Main Tasks:

• Develop customer facing APIs and data feeds while working on a small agile team.
• Consistently and frequently deliver solutions that are well-engineered, maintainable and tested within the agreed upon time frame.
• Participate in code reviews and sprint planning, help identify opportunities, work through challenges, and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements.
• Bring in your unique flavor and help others on the team grow as engineers.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 3+ years professional experience in Go and/or Python
• Experience in API and/or third-party integration development (including Salesforce)
• Relational database proficiency (e.g. MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Proficiency developing in a Mac/Linux environment
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• An interest and ability to help out across the stack as needed 

You’ll Be Successful Here if You Are/Have:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Helpful, Humble Human
• Love for experimentation
• A believer in lean and agile values and principles for building software

Please note that this is a US-based role.

Please note this is a US-based role.

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.

A little bit about our pay practices: Typically, we will hire at our Hiring Target, but actual starting pay may be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, and budgetary constraints.

Compensation$112,500—$142,500 USD

What we're all about 

We're on a mission to advance the technology economy -- one driven by innovation, markets, and entrepreneurship. We believe a thriving technology economy powers a thriving society. By synthesizing, analyzing and visualizing millions of data points, we deliver a 360° view of the technology economy – powering the insights that buyers, sellers, investors, and advisors need. 

As a CBIer, you can expect to leverage generative AI to drive creativity, efficiency, and  strategic decision-making. Our culture is infused with the spirit of exploration and experimentation – and AI is a catalyst for new ideas and breakthrough solutions.

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