We are looking for an engineer who runs what they build, and builds things that keep running. You have operated real production systems in a small, fast-moving company, and people trust you with them.
Typically, your profile will look like this
- Experience: 3 to 10 years of hands-on engineering, most of it in small or fast-growing companies where you owned production systems yourself rather than handing them to a platform team
- Python and backend: advanced Python, including async code and long-running data jobs, and enough backend experience to work on production services and APIs, including basic JavaScript or TypeScript backends
- External data: you have kept third party data integrations reliable in production, and you know how to handle rate limits, retries and changes without notice
- Pipelines and storage: you have designed and run event-driven, fault-tolerant pipelines handling millions of records a day, with Airflow, Dagster or task queues, on databases such as Postgres, ClickHouse, MongoDB or Redshift, and you know what they cost to run
- Data reliability and monitoring: your systems report their own problems through freshness, volume, schema and value checks, and you use Datadog or an equivalent to keep services and integrations reliable, because a wrong number that nobody noticed is the outcome you design against
- Infrastructure and security: you are comfortable with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and cloud, and ideally you have run an access review and set up role-based access and secrets management
- Ownership and communication: you have owned a messy data setup end to end at a smaller company and left it simpler, documented and maintainable; you explain trade-offs to non-technical colleagues, push back when it matters, and have guided junior engineers or led a small team
- Engineering fundamentals: you learned to build solid systems before AI coding tools were everywhere, and today you use them to go faster, not to replace that judgment; you ship fast, keep the codebase clean, and take the time to understand the context before you build
- Pace: you thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment
What makes this exciting
Our data systems feed everything the company does, and you own them outright. You are not maintaining someone else's legacy: you decide how these systems should work and you make them work that way. You're not a cog in the machine but the captain of your own ship, rewarded for performance and respected for leadership. Flat hierarchies mean that your voice matters, your ideas get implemented, and your impact is immediate.
We pay competitive salaries and make you an owner of the business with equity. We work remotely to give you complete freedom over your life, while meeting regularly around the world for global offsites where we strategize, bond, and push boundaries together.
What the process will look like
We hire on a rolling basis. Earliest starting date is always ASAP.
Once you begin our process, you can progress from start to offer within a week, depending on how quickly you can move through each stage:
- Initial interview: 30-minute introductory call - getting to know you
- Case interview: 90-minute case discussion - present and debate your skills
- Founder interview: 90-minute interview with our CEO - going deep on all topics
- Offer, contract signing and onboarding
Note: As we are still in stealth, you will learn more about Melotech as you progress through the stages. By the end of the Founder interview, you will have a full grasp of our business and the details of your role.