Staff Fullstack Engineer

The Opportunity:

At DataGrail, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. Individuals demand transparency and control over their identity and personal data more than ever before. With increasing demands for transparency and control over personal data, DataGrail is committed to transforming how brands manage data privacy. 

We’re looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer who can help us execute on this mission. You’ll build products that deliver value to our customers, ensuring that individuals have the transparency and control they should over their privacy. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager on our Trust team, this is a true full stack role. You’ll work alongside a small team of talented engineers, inspiring your teammates to produce their best work as a force-multiplier, while also demonstrating best practices in code, communication and feedback. We offer a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and growth. We solve problems, celebrate wins, and are always looking for ways to iterate and improve. 

The Skill Set:

Use your full stack software engineering expertise to:

• Operate in a Ruby on Rails and React w/ Typescript environment
• Work hands-on with AWS in a production environment
• Deep working knowledge with Postgres or similar DB technologies
• Design and implement platform-level technical solutions for product features on a day to day basis
• Build scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems
• Independently scope milestone-based, extensible technical solutions as part of project planning
• Drive architectural solutions for complex, ambiguous problems across multiple teams, establishing patterns and frameworks that scale effectively 
• Champion and implement engineering best practices, leading initiatives to improve system design, code quality, and maintainability while mentoring others
• Partner with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to lead the delivery team in the collaborative development of new features
• Partner with Staff Engineers across teams to develop our guiding principles of engineering, focusing on technical direction

Strong and Effective Communicator: 

• You consider the effects of work across multiple teams and proactively communicate and manage potential issues
• You identify business-impacting problems, suggest solutions, and drive resolutions in a collaborative remote environment

Bonus Points if You: 

• Are familiar with CI/CD tools like Git, Github Actions, and Terraform
• Can use Figma for UI/UX design and specifications
• Are familiar with Python or similar languages

Within 90 Days You'll:

• Get to know DataGrail, our products, customers, architecture, and technologies
• Pair with other engineers to learn our codebase, and deployment process and to deliver new product features while resolving bugs
• Start to take ownership over new and existing feature development
• Contribute to discovery and technical planning for upcoming features and sprints
• Give and receive consistent peer feedback on quality of work, team contribution, and alignment with DataGrail core values

Within 180 Days You'll:

• Lead development of major features and platforms that are important for your team and our customers
• Be a go-to person for code reviews, technical designs and/or mentorship for engineers in your team or other teams
• Participate in the on-call rotation by triaging incoming questions and bugs, and helping lead the resolution efforts for high severity or high priority issues

Within 365 Days You'll:

• Play significant leadership role in the launch of new products and platform features
• Be the subject matter expert for certain areas of the product and you will use your business and technical acumen to ensure the projects in those areas succeed

Please note that the compensation range below is a guideline and final compensation will be based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies.

About Us:

DataGrail is the Privacy Control Center modern brands rely on to build customer trust and outsmart business risk. Backed by 2,000+ pre-built integrations, DataGrail automates privacy workflows and supports compliance with regulations like GDPR and CPRA. DataGrail is recognized as a G2 leader and services millions of consumers through customers like Salesforce, Amazon, Overstock, and New Balance.

DataGrail provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.