Backend Engineer

About Us

People Data Labs (PDL) is the provider of people and company data. We do the heavy lifting of data collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions. Our sole focus is on building the best data available by integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. Leading companies across the world use PDL’s workforce data to enrich recruiting platforms, power AI models, create custom audiences, and more.

We are looking for individuals who can balance extreme ownership with a “one-team, one-dream” mindset. Our customers are trying to solve complex problems, and we only help them achieve their goals as a team. Our Delivery and API Team ensures our customers have access to standardized and high-quality data to build upon.

You will be crucial in accelerating our efforts to build standalone data products that enable data teams and independent developers to create innovative solutions at massive scale. In this role, you will be working with a team to continuously improve our existing APIs and delivery methods, as well as creating new ones.

If you are looking to be part of a team discovering the next frontier of data-as-a-service (DaaS) with a high level of autonomy and opportunity for direct contributions, this might be the role for you. We like our engineers to be thoughtful, quirky, and willing to fearlessly try new things. Failure is embraced at PDL as long as we continue to learn and grow from it.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drive our self-serve product offerings to bring prospective customers into our products and grow new revenue

• Drive the core tools that our customer success team uses to support our customers

• Understand and translate our business requirements into the systems that support our core business activities

• Proactively work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguities in business operations and system design

• Design and update our systems using good design patterns on both frontend and backend, which allow for extensibility and evolution as our business evolves

• Ensure the integrity (correctness and accuracy) of data captured around key business activities so that we have a reliable source of truth on our operations

• Build and maintain our frontend components, design, and architecture

• Ensure the quality and reliability of frontend surfaces presented to users and the accuracy and effectiveness of the application stack supporting those surfaces

Technical Requirements

• 5-7+ years of industry experience with clear examples of strategic technical problem-solving and implementation

• Strong software development fundamentals

• Experience working in systems where you’ve had to engage with existing implementation patterns and evolve them over time

Backend Expertise

• 4+ years of experience with Python in a production environment

• REST API design and backends such as Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Rails or similar (note: we are a Python shop primarily)

• SQL and SQL stores , such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar

Frontend Expertise

• 3+ years of experience with React.js with Typescript

• Experience with Next.js (or other React.js frontend frameworks)

• Experience with Vercel (Nice to have)

• Experience with frontend testing frameworks and practices

• High attention to detail coupled with a strong understanding of CSS fundamentals; experience using Tailwind CSS

• Experience refining designs with UI/UX designers and while meaningfully contributing to the design and asserting a customer-centric perspective

• Experience building and maintaining a UI component library

• Experience working with Figma or similar UX design tools

• Experience with page-load and interaction performance

Professional Requirements

• Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work independently

• It’s no sweat to scope, breakdown, and estimate projects effectively with a solid track record of delivery

• You communicate progress and blockers effectively with your manager, team, and stakeholders

• Strong written communication skills on Slack/Chat and in documents

• You collaborate well across engineering, design, and product management

• Experienced in writing technical design docs and translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs

• Experience mentoring and developing engineers

• Ensure and develop solid code quality and development practices and standards within the team

Our Benefits

• Stock

• Competitive Salaries

• Unlimited paid time off

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance

• Health, fitness, and office stipends

• The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want