Staff Software Engineer, API and Data Delivery

Company: Enigma
Location: New York
Posted on: March 2, 2025

Job Description:

The Mission:
This is an exciting time at Enigma. Our products are creating tremendous value for our clients and we are seeking to expand their capabilities and reach in the market.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our API and Data Delivery Team. You will play a central role in architecting, building and managing critical systems in distilling and delivering large data sets, working with teammates and clients to solve high-impact, real-world problems.
We're looking for someone who:

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• Builds scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments
  
• Solves problems with containers, cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS and Terraform)
  
• Has a "can-do" attitude and doesn't flinch when faced with a challenge, no matter how large or small
  
• Prides themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code
  
• Gets excited when working as part of a motivated, collaborative team
  
• Identifies problems that others aren't seeing and makes sure they get solved
  
• Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world
  
• Inspires their teammates to perform at their best while building a collaborative, supportive team culture
  
• Effectively manages responsibilities for architecture and design decisions, hands-on implementation, team organization and technical mentorship
  
• Has engineering management experience (ideally)
  
  What makes this job interesting?
  
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  • Impact: Your leadership, technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies.
    
  • Technical Challenge: Our systems integrate new technologies for database, information retrieval, distributed systems, micro-services, elastic scaling, data pipelines, and more.
    
  • Ownership: The API & Data Delivery team is solving some of the world's most demanding challenges. An ideal candidate is an engineer looking to grow their responsibilities and work with the team to have a significant technical and business impact.
    
    Our ideal candidate:
    
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    • Has 8+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years of technical leadership experience
      
    • Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems
      
    • Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world
      
      Bonus points if you:
      
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      • Have an outstanding track record of leading engineering teams
        
      • Have extensive experience engineering SaaS data products
        
        About Us:
        At Enigma, we're building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values - generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive - guide everything we do from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We're a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data-together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!
        We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
        Salary Range: $180,000-$240,000
        A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we're creating together.
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Keywords: Enigma, New York , Staff Software Engineer, API and Data Delivery, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New York