Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Role Description

Built is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team and lead the next generation of customer-facing data product experiences. In this role, you will build the application layer where Built’s data products are discovered, accessed, and used by customers. You will work across frontend, backend, APIs, services, and data-backed application workflows to turn platform capabilities into intuitive product experiences.

The Data Platform team already has deep data engineering expertise. We are looking for a product-minded software engineer with strong full-stack application development experience to add depth to the team's software engineering capabilities. This includes:

• Thoughtful frontend experiences
• Well-designed backend services
• Durable APIs
• Practical architecture
• Strong testing practices
• A sharp instinct for what customers actually need

You will help overhaul Built’s application-facing data products platform. This includes customer-facing experiences such as:

• Data product hubs
• Market insights
• Benchmarking workflows
• Portfolio intelligence
• Data-specific agents

The right person is a builder with taste. You care when a workflow technically works but still feels confusing. You notice when a requirement does not map to customer value. You can push back, offer better alternatives, and still partner well when tradeoffs are needed.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Experience building data-heavy product experiences, analytics products, reporting workflows, benchmarking tools, dashboards, or decision-support products.
• Experience working with data engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, or teams that productionize data science prototypes.
• Experience with AI or agentic product experiences.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Materialize, or similar data platform technologies.
• Experience in fintech, lending, banking, construction, real estate, compliance-heavy SaaS, or other domains where trust and correctness matter.
• Experience with product instrumentation, activation metrics, customer adoption, experimentation, or usage-based product iteration.
• Experience mentoring engineers from adjacent disciplines into stronger software engineering practices.

Benefits

• Built’s salary range for this position is $170,000 - $240,000 USD per year.
• Equity in the form of stock options.
• Top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO policy.
• Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development.
• 401k with match and expedited vesting.

Travel Requirement

If the role isn't required to be hybrid or on-site, non-local candidates (not based in Nashville metro) must be able to travel at minimum twice per year to Nashville, TN or another designated location for company-wide events (e.g., "Connect Week"). Additional travel may be required based on business needs and role responsibilities.