Software Engineer, Data Platform

About Middesk

Middesk makes it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we’ve been transforming business identity verification, replacing slow, manual processes with seamless access to complete, up-to-date data. Our platform helps companies across industries confidently verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and reduce risk at every stage of the customer lifecycle.

Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to Forbes Fintech 50 List.

About Middesk Engineering:

Middesk is, at its core, a data company. We live by the quality of our data assets and the engine that powers them. We’re on a mission to build a comprehensive and complete business dataset for every business in the world. As part of the Data Platform team at Middesk, you’ll collaborate with Data Science, Infrastructure and Product Engineering teams to build and maintain our own proprietary Entity Resolution system used to power the Middesk business identity platform, scaling our system to resolve millions of business identities across hundreds of data sources and thousands of distinct data sets. You’ll often work with and support product engineers looking to launch new products and features.

The Role:

We're looking for a senior engineer to own and drive the technical direction of our data platform. You'll design data infrastructure systems that operate reliably at scale, define the architecture for how we acquire, transform, and serve data to product teams, and partner closely with engineering leadership to align platform strategy with company priorities.

You'll be expected to independently scope complex projects from ambiguous problem statements, break them into incremental deliverables, and drive them to completion while keeping stakeholders informed and adapting when priorities shift. You'll also play a key role in elevating the engineering practices of the team through mentorship, code review, and setting te...