Description:
About us
At Sonar, we’re on a mission to help real estate professionals and consumers make smarter, data-driven decisions and achieve better outcomes. By connecting data and harnessing the potential of AI, we will unlock powerful insights for them to act on and can eliminate archaic inefficiencies in ways that will significantly alter the industry.
As our first step in achieving this, we’re building a tool that gives real estate professionals a way to seamlessly connect their data and get insights about their business and local market via a dashboard and AI-powered analytics.
The opportunity
Sonar is a fully-remote company and our team is distributed across Australia and Europe. We’re looking for a highly experienced lead backend engineer to join the team and help build a world-class data platform. You will play a crucial role in shaping the platform and have significant influence over its technical and strategic direction.
How you’ll contribute:
- Shape the data platform’s architecture, core data capabilities and have significant influence over its strategic direction
- Work collaboratively with people both inside and outside engineering to create a world-class data platform
- Address critical performance and scalability challenges of services and infrastructure
- Develop and manage data models that support analytics services
- Design and maintain ETL workflows to ensure data is accessible, accurate, and up-to-date
- Help build and maintain integrations with external third-party systems
- Implement and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for services
- Contribute to establishing an elite technical culture and ways of working
Who you are:
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with previous roles at a senior/lead level
- A proven track record of shipping reliable and scalable solutions
- A bias towards shipping and learning while balancing a high quality bar
- Operate well in an unstructured and fast moving environment with a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to learn new technologies and systems quickly
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- You have grit, curiosity, humility and a desire to win as a team
Bonus points for experience with:
- Building and managing data and analytics focused apps / platforms at scale
- Designing and developing reliable, secure and performant APIs
- Building API integrations with third-party systems and webhook ingestion
- Building highly reliable and performant ETL pipelines
- Data warehousing and analytics
- Docker, K8s and Azure
- Data security
- AI / ML driven products
- PropTech
Tech
- Node.js, Python, SQL, Postgres
- Azure, Docker, K8s, Mage AI
- Github, Slack, Notion
What we offer:
- Interesting and challenging problems
- Flexible work hours with significant autonomy
- 100% remote role based in Australia
- Monthly budget for co-working space
- Laptop
- Competitive salary and generous equity
- Team gatherings / events