Senior Software Engineer - Data Solutions
Develop a state-of-the-art product. Make sense of the future. Use data to drive business.
At CB Insights, we build a predictive market intelligence platform that helps our customers make sense of the future and drive their businesses forward using data. Our system retrieves large amounts of data in real time on private companies, and then extracts knowledge and insights from that data. We present those analytics and insights through various channels including a dynamic web user interface, mobile app, APIs, data feeds, and various other channels which enables our clients to make strategic business decisions around corporate strategy, innovation, investments, etc.
We are hiring for engineering roles for our Data Solutions team to help drive our business forward. The Data Solutions team owns all of the programmatic interfaces used by our customers including our APIs, feeds, and third party integrations. These interfaces serve a crucial role in our customers’ strategic decision making processes across their organizations and are an important growth area for CB Insights.
The Role You’ll Play
At CB Insights, our software engineers build robust and scalable services and data processing pipelines/jobs with an explicit focus on delivering value to our customers. As a senior engineer on the data solutions team, you will play an important role in expanding our programmatic data delivery platform, make it easier to use, easier to integrate, and expose new and interesting data points that help our customers make critical and timely decisions.
About the team:
We have the opportunity to build a data delivery platform that gets used by some of the largest companies in the world. At the same time, we take pride in working closely with our data and go-to-market teams. We get direct feedback from our users while helping drive our core business. Working in the CBI engineering department is unique. Since we are a smaller team without a lot of bureaucracy, we are able to really push the envelope without going through a lot of red tape. It is also a great team to learn from others and grow in your career, as well as a chance to enact any ideas you may bring to the table. We’re a very open and friendly group.
Your Main Tasks:
- Develop customer facing APIs, data feeds, and integrations with other data platforms while working on a small agile team.
- Interact with customers and partners to explore new ways to deliver our data and serve new use cases.
- Work with product management teams to identify opportunities to turn custom solutions into general product offerings for wider customer bases.
- Consistently and frequently deliver solutions that are well-engineered, maintainable and tested within the agreed upon time frame.
- Participate in code reviews and sprint planning, help identify opportunities, work through challenges, and share knowledge with colleagues.
- Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements.
- Bring in your unique flavor and help others on the team grow as engineers.
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What You Bring to the Table:
- 6+ years professional experience in Golang
- Experience in API and/or third-party integration development (including Salesforce)
- Relational database proficiency (e.g. MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- Proficiency developing in a Mac/Linux environment
- Experience with service-oriented architectures
- An interest and ability to help out across the stack as needed
- An interest and ability to directly interact with customers and partners.
You’ll Be Successful Here if You Are/Have:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Self starter with strong ownership traits
- Love for experimentation
- A believer in lean and agile values and principles for building software
Please note that this is a US-based role and we cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role.
Please note this is a US-based role.
In addition to base salary listed below, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.
What we're all about
CB Insights is the leader in predictive intelligence on private companies—turning exclusive data on millions of firms into early, trusted signals on future performance and direction. The company pioneered predictive intelligence with its Mosaic Score—the first system to reliably forecast the outlook for a private company—and has since built it into a comprehensive platform of AI and data capabilities. Today, leading strategy, investment, and business development teams rely on CB Insights to identify the right companies, markets, and opportunities before their competitors do.
CB Insights Leadership Principles
At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work.
- Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process.
- Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
- Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
- Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
- Danger zones:
- Bureaucracy. May the best ideas and execution win.
- Complexity. Leaders use frameworks and systems to simplify.
- No commitment. Leaders don’t compromise just to get along. Debate. Disagree. But once a decision is made, commit.
- Leaving what’s important unsaid or undone. No “circling back.”
- Data informs. Insight transforms. Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
- Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
- Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work.
- Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
- Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.
You’ll want to work here if
- You are excited about how AI is transforming tech
- You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow
- Your instinct is to work smarter not harder
- You love developing as a SME with a POV
- You are motivated by challenges and big ideas
- You believe in radical personal accountability
You don’t want to work here if:
- You are a tech pessimist
- Radical Candor is not your style
- You like to build big processes
- You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details
- You prefer to operate in your comfort zone
- You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes
What we offer:
- Award-winning culture: recognized by Inc. and Built-in for leadership, career opportunity, and engagement
- Industry Insight: over 500k+ people follow our tech newsletter: sign up here
- Holistic compensation: cash, rich healthcare insurance benefits including PPO, HSA, and FSA options, multiple mental health resources, 401k match, annual education stipend, and generous paid time off.
About Our Pay Practices
We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions are informed by qualifications, location, internal equity, and current market data. While we typically hire at our established Hiring Target, actual starting pay may vary based on factors such as market rates, the qualified pool of candidates, and individual experience.
Our compensation philosophy goes beyond base salary. To align with your dedication and success, we offer total rewards as innovative as the work we do— including variable cash potential, 401(k) matching, flexible healthcare options and mental health resources, professional development and education stipends, generous PTO, and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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