Firstup

Firstup

Firstup offers an intelligent communication platform designed to engage employees throughout their entire employment journey, providing insights that help organizations support, promote, and retain their workforce effectively.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2008
$47M raised

Description

  • Drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms for business intelligence, predictive analytics, and LLM capabilities.
  • Lead complex cross-functional projects that span multiple domain teams and support core platform data initiatives.
  • Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Drive adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to improve productivity, code quality, and innovation.
  • Partner with Product Management and Design to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop a distributed team of software and quality engineers.
  • Own production health for team services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
  • Lead operational excellence efforts to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and adherence to SLOs and enterprise SLAs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software experience.
  • 3+ years of experience managing teams of engineers building data pipelines and analytics applications.
  • Proven experience delivering customer-facing enterprise SaaS products at scale.
  • Strong hands-on or architectural experience with modern data platform tools such as Apache Airflow, dbt, Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Redshift, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Dynamo, and AWS Quick Sight.
  • Strong knowledge of modern data architecture, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling best practices.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, Python, and TypeScript.
  • Knowledge of AI tools including Langchain, Open AI Agents, and MCP APIs.
  • Demonstrated success leading a data engineering team through complex, large-scope challenges.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a startup environment.
  • Preferred: experience scaling and evolving enterprise SaaS platforms through growth or technical transformation.
  • Preferred: experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows.
  • Preferred: exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $160,000-$195,000.
  • Excellent PTO program.
  • Great health benefits.
  • Remote work within the United States.
  • Casual and friendly work environment.
  • Leadership team focused on personal and professional growth.
  • Inclusive, high-growth environment where ideas are rewarded.

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