Rockstar · 6 days ago
Founding Staff Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expRockstar is recruiting for a super-senior full-stack engineer to join a dynamic, early-stage team building an integration-heavy data platform. This foundational role involves owning data ingestion, normalization, and validation processes while building full-stack product features and making integration strategy decisions.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Build full-stack product features end-to-end: frontend UI, backend APIs/services, data pipelines, deployment and observability
Own the integration strategy and connector architecture across multiple vendors and authentication patterns (OAuth/API tokens/read-only portal access/automated exports)
Design and implement data ingestion and processing primitives: retries, idempotency, backfills, schema evolution, and anomaly detection
Create a flexible canonical data model and mapping layer that can normalize structural + semantic differences across systems (e.g., different definitions of revenue/net sales/business day)
Build the metrics/semantic layer that powers product experiences and deterministic tool outputs (numbers must be correct and auditable)
Implement data quality and validation workflows so failures are observable and fixable (quarantine/error surfacing instead of silent wrongness)
Make sound build vs buy recommendations for integration tooling and infrastructure (unified APIs, managed ETL, warehouses, observability, etc.)
Work directly with the founder and pilot partners to unblock access issues, validate data, and iterate quickly
Qualification
Required
10+ years building production software; prior Staff/Principal level or equivalent
Proven full-stack ownership: you can ship UI + backend + data pipelines without needing separate specialists
Strong TypeScript experience (frontend and backend); Python experience is a plus (not required)
Deep experience with data engineering fundamentals: SQL, modeling, ETL/ELT, event-driven ingestion, reconciliation/validation, and operationalizing pipelines
Experience building and maintaining multiple third-party integrations (API design, rate limits, auth, retries, monitoring, vendor quirks)
Strong systems design judgment: you choose tools/architecture based on constraints and tradeoffs, not familiarity
Comfortable operating in ambiguity with real customers and aggressive timelines
Preferred
Experience integrating with operational systems such as POS, labor/scheduling, payroll/timekeeping, accounting/ERP, inventory/COGS, purchasing/ordering, or analytics/BI
Experience with Postgres and an OLAP/warehouse (ClickHouse/BigQuery/Snowflake/Redshift) and building a metrics layer
Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS with strong security primitives (RBAC, row-level security patterns, audit logging)
Experience building internal admin tools (integration status, data freshness, backfill tooling, customer support tooling)
Benefits
Competitive cash
Meaningful equity
Company
Rockstar
Rockstar is rebuilding the infrastructure for employability by collapsing the cost of hiring.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase