Software Engineer

About Hex

Hex is building a modern data analysis platform to empower data teams to have outsize impact within their organizations. With Hex, users can easily connect to data, build and collaborate on analyses, and turn their work into beautiful data-driven apps usable by everyone.

Our current team is focused primarily on engineering and design. We're all working remotely, plan to do so for the foreseeable future, and will always offer first-class support for remote team members.

We're backed by great VC funds and angels, so we're able to offer competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity. We also offer unlimited PTO, flexible benefits, free lunch, and more.

Though we're small, we value building a thoughtful and intentional company culture. We prioritize autonomy, quality, feedback, and bias toward action. You might be a good fit to join us if you enjoy building thoughtful products, empowering users, and helping data teams do their best work.

About the Software Engineer role

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to join as a member of our core team. You will have broad impact over the technology, the product, and our company's culture.

We have plenty of challenges at all levels of the stack, so we're excited to talk to you whether your experience is in the nuts and bolts of cloud infrastructure and DevOps all the way up to building beautiful, single-page web apps. Among the interesting challenges you would get to work on:

• Scalable and secure compute infrastructure for running analytical code, including distributed caching of program state
• Client and server-side architecture for collaboration and multiplayer editing
• Creating UX paradigms for expressing complex concepts such as caching, execution state, and application performance

About You

We're looking for engineers who have:

• A passion for shipping high-quality product that delights users
• Interest in the data products space, and a love of building tools that empower analysts to do more
• Interest and curiosity about the bigger picture of building a company, including go-to-market, customer development, people, and marketing
• At least 3-5 years experience as a software engineer

It's also great if you have:

• Worked with elements in our tech stack:

  • Product: React, Typescript, Node, GraphQL, Postgres, Python, R, or Julia
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Built products in the data analytics space, either frontend or backend
• Experience in data analysis / data science, using, building, or integrating with modern technologies (e.g. Python notebooks, modern BI tools, data pipelines)

Contact

Caitlin Colgrove, CTO (caitlin@hex.tech)