Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

You will lead the design and delivery of Built's application-facing data products platform, including product surfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend flows, and reusable patterns. You will build full-stack customer experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and related technologies. You will partner with Product to shape ambiguous ideas into useful customer workflows, challenge low-value requirements, and offer practical alternatives. You will turn data science prototypes, analytics concepts, and platform capabilities into production-grade product experiences. You will bring strong software engineering practices into a data-heavy team through technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns. You will help data engineers take on more software engineering work across frontend, backend, APIs, product decomposition, and production readiness. You will collaborate across teams where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or customer workflows. You will use customer signals, usage data, product feedback, support issues, and discovery learnings to guide your engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Built's application-facing data products platform, including product surfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend flows, and reusable patterns
• Build full-stack customer experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and related technologies
• Partner with Product to shape ambiguous ideas into useful customer workflows, challenge low-value requirements, and offer practical alternatives
• Turn data science prototypes, analytics concepts, and platform capabilities into production-grade product experiences
• Bring strong software engineering practices into a data-heavy team through technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns
• Help data engineers take on more software engineering work across frontend, backend, APIs, product decomposition, and production readiness
• Collaborate across Built where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or customer workflows
• Use customer signals, usage data, product feedback, support issues, and discovery learnings to guide engineering decisions

Requirements

• Staff-level software engineering experience with a track record of leading ambiguous, customer-facing product initiatives from idea through production
• Strong product judgment, customer intuition, and ability to identify when a workflow or requirement does not create customer value
• Full-stack web application experience, with backend-leaning product engineering depth
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern web application architecture
• Experience with Python or demonstrated ability to work effectively in Python-based systems
• Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, reusable application patterns, and production backend systems
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with strong instincts for testing, readability, observability, and operational ownership
• Strong technical communication skills, including design docs, architecture discussions, and tradeoff analysis
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to challenge product direction constructively and mentor engineers without condescension
• Bias toward customer value over technology for technology's sake

Benefits

• Equity in the form of stock options
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO policy (US only)
• Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development
• 401k with match and expedited vesting (US only)