About Muffin Data

Modern analytics for CPG brands

Tech description:

### TECH STACK *App*: Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel, Metabase *Infrastructure*: Supabase, Snowflake, AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3 etc.) *Data Scraping*: Node.js, Playwright, Python *Data Processing*: Python, dbt ### INTERESTING TECHNICAL CHALLENGES Turning historically unstable and changing inputs into a reliable, clean output Developing novel datasets from new and existing sources (ex. customers, the public internet, grocery store visits, etc.) Bridging the gap between data and real-world insight and action

Job description:

**Muffin Data is seeking a founding engineer to scale and eventually own the team.**\ \ **Skills:** Node.js, Playwright, PostgreSQL/Supabase, Next.js ### **High-level** Help us revolutionize data for the CPG industry. You'll be collaborating directly with the founder and customers with two goals over the first year: * Meet the demand for our product that 100’s of brands depend on daily * Bring new product extensions to market to 10x growth We deal with hard challenges throughout the stack, turning a complex set of problems into seamless experience for our customers. With more demand than we can handle and exciting new product development, we’re looking for the right founding engineer to help us meet it head-on. ### **Low-level** At our core, we are a full-stack analytics platform that handles data ingestion, transformation, and reporting. You’ll be working across all our tech to ensure data keeps flowing accurately and timely. Our backend is primarily Supabase, most data is collected via Node.js/Playwright on AWS, transformation is handled by Python & dbt, and our outputs live in Snowflake that customers access directly or via Metabase embedded in our React app. Your mission in the short term: help us meet demand, improve our reliability and observability, launch a new data product. ### **Who You Are** * You’ve got experience working across the stack, building and shipping real systems end-to-end * You enjoy working with customers directly, and don’t want to let them down * You have strong opinions, loosely held * You can move fast while being thoughtful of how today’s decisions will impact us later * You’re motivated by growth and future opportunities * You’re independent ### **Who You Are NOT** * Unable to ask for help or speak your mind * Find yourself going too deep into rabbit holes at the of expense moving forward * Afraid to be wrong or learn something new, especially from customers * Need to be told what to do or managed day-to-day * Content with the way things are ### **Why Join Us?** * Traction – We have 0% all-time churn and high demand from brands * Unsolved challenges – We’re working to leverage data in ways that haven’t been done before * High impact – Define architecture, influence product, and shape company direction * Growth – Help scale and grow our engineering team * Equity upside – Early team, meaningful ownership, no priced round (yet) ### **More You Need To Know** * We’re based in downtown Santa Cruz, CA. We’re open to remote work for the right fit. * You’ll be owning most of engineering as you get onboarded. We’ll rely on you to keep things rolling and help grow the team as needed. * If you’ve got the interest and the skills, you’ll be the leader of our engineering org as it grows * CPG is a unique and legacy industry: get ready to learn about it, our customers’ pain, and the tremendous opportunities.

Skills:

Next.js, JavaScript, PL/SQL, React, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Muffin Data remote jobs

Founding Engineer