Sourcetable | Full-Time | San Francisco, Designer + full-stack developer
Hi - we’re Sourcetable, a small team building a next-generation spreadsheet to make data accessible to everyone. Sourcetable is like Sheets/Excel, plus a lot of turnkey data infrastructure that “just works” out of the box. Users get a data warehouse and data connectors to most SaaS apps & DBs, all data streams are ~live so models and reports stay up to date, and nobody needs to write a line of code to get setup. Just some examples of how this is useful: users can build cross-channel data models (ie. Joins), users can store and compute a lot more data than traditional spreadsheets (multi-gigabit CSV files are trivial), and companies can setup and use data reporting infrastructure without hiring engineers (this is vastly underrated by Silicon Valley folk).
If you’re still reading, then you may be delighted to know that we’re hiring a designer and a full-stack engineer. The catch is that we are very picky. Oh, and you also have to be based in the Bay Area since 20%+ of our work time is IRL.
Why so picky?
Because we’re not just building a product or a codebase, we’re also creating a culture. The culture we strive to create is one of excellence: a small team of exceptional people who can do a lot with the minimum of supervision and management. This means that everyone on the team has to be able to ride the line between perfectionism and scrappiness, and be a strong hacker able to find solutions and ship product. This also means that everyone on the team has to have multi-domain experience.
The designer we are looking for, for example, needs to be at least a mid-level software engineer, putting 20% of their time into the codebase. (This will not be appealing to most designers, and that is ok.) The full-stack engineer needs to be both a senior frontend developer, great at hacking javascript, and also have backend experience and be willing to jump in where needed from time to time.
This sets a high bar for team members, but it also means the people you’ll be working with can hold a lot of problem sets in their head, do a lot, and have higher quality conversations, which makes for a more interesting workplace (and a more effective team at our stage of company).
If this sounds interesting, get in touch: Email is hidden