Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

About the role

We are hiring Software Engineers to join our team. This is an opportunity to join us in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up. You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. THIS IS A 5 DAYS A WEEK IN OFFICE ROLE.

We are looking for software engineers who are comfortable solving business problems across all layers of the software stack. At Chalk, we build reliable data processing systems that can operate performantly at scale with a laser-focus on developer experience.

We need engineers who can build world-class user experiences across CLI and web surfaces, while also understanding and contributing to a codebase that contains ideas from compilers, query planners, and distributed systems.

What you will do

  • Work directly with Chalk’s co-founders to productionize our first iteration
  • Write TypeScript, Python, Go, and React
  • Expose the functionality of our core platform to data scientist and machine learning end-users in their home environments
  • Iterate rapidly to improve Chalk’s platform in response to customer needs

What we’re looking for

  • 2+ years experience of professional software engineering experience
  • Working knowledge of computer science fundamentals. We’re not looking for experience from drilling leet code – we need folks who are comfortable building and maintaining real systems
  • A record of developing sophisticated user-facing applications that are pleasant to use
  • An eye for high-quality UX
  • Track record of learning new concepts quickly
  • Ability to work autonomously & to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes
  • Strong communication skills

Bonus points

  • Experience implementing data infrastructure
  • Experience working with developer tools
  • Experience with applied machine learning or data analytics
  • Experience with Go

Inclusivity

Chalk is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations to anyone in need of individualized support.

Meet Chalk Chalk is building machine learning infrastructure to answer the world’s hardest questions. Our platform is built to power credit, risk, insurance, medical, and recommendation decisions for the world’s most innovative companies. Answering these complex questions requires sourcing data from a wide range of providers and rapidly iterating on feature definitions. Chalk makes it easy for machine learning teams to build high-performance pipelines that deliver data to models at the right time. We orchestrate infrastructure and automatically track data lineage so developers can work confidently and focus on their unique products and insights. Meet Our Founders Elliot started his career at Affirm where he built the early risk and credit data infrastructure system (the inspiration for Chalk). He then started Haven Money (with Andy) which Credit Karma acquired to power its banking products. Andy met Elliot at Stanford admit weekend – Elliot was his room host and they’ve been best friends ever since. After school, Andy worked at Palantir on large government data infrastructure projects. He then founded Haven Money (with Elliot) which now powers Credit Karma Money. Marc spent many years at Google where he helped to launch the first version of Google Wallet. He went on to start Index which Stripe acquired as its in-store payment solution – it’s now called Stripe Terminal.

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