Hiring: Founding Data Engineer Company: Inventure Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 18:50:32 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Data Pipeline, Gradle, HBase, Python, SQL, TypeScript About the job Experience: •2 to 5 years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent in a startup. This is a founding hire, so we are not able to consider new graduates. •5 years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent in a startup. This is a founding hire, so we are not able to consider new graduates. Required Skills: •As a Founding Engineer, you will: •Build and harden robust data pipelines that process live production data from legacy ERP systems for distributors turning over hundreds of millions a year. •Own a product stream end to end, from customer conversations to shipped features, within your first couple of weeks. •Deploy and customise data ingestion tooling across multiple customers, each with different file formats, ERPs and integration requirements. •Talk directly with non-technical customers to learn the industry and gather requirements, translating what you hear into what you build. •Contribute to AI agent development as the data layer matures, including voice applications and agent-based data ingestion. Qualifications: •You have 2 to 5 years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent in a startup. This is a founding hire, so we are not able to consider new graduates. •You are a strong generalist who is comfortable across SQL, Python and TypeScript, and you enjoy building and maintaining production data pipelines. •You are a clear, concise communicator. A lot of this job is explaining technical work to operators who have run their businesses for decades and have no interest in your stack. The first stage is a 20 minute conversation with the CTO, and it rewards people who get to the point. •You have a genuinely competitive streak with something to show for it. Sport at a serious level, competitive programming, chess, music to a high grade, anything where you have been measured against other people and cared about the result. •One of these backgrounds fits you: a generalist or data-focus Compensation: •$160,000 •$190,000 •$165 •$190 •$3 •$165K–$190K Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!