HockeyStack | Cracked Backend/Infra Engineer | ONSITE (San Francisco) | VISA sponsorship available | $180k-$250k + 0.2-0.4% stock option
HockeyStack is creating a single source of truth and reporting for marketing, sales, and all customer data.
We came out of YC S23, and raised $4.3M from General Catalyst, Madrona, et al.
We went from 0 to millions in ARR in a really short time and are in a DEEPLY URGENT need of really good engineers to help scale infra and backend.
The product collects data from CRM, marketing automation, ad platforms and data warehouses. The data then gets cleaned and transformed into a unified format. Out of the unified data format, customers can create any type of report the want using the UI. We have a dynamic query engine that transforms UI inputs into a query.
Because of the flexibility and how much data we process, keeping integrations up, transforming data accurately, reporting accurately and performantly is a huge technical challenge.
Please email me at bugra @ hockeystack.com if you want to take a crack at some of these problems.
Worth noting that we are fully in-person in a beautiful office near Oracle Park in SF!
HockeyStack | Backend Engineer | San Francisco, ONSITE, VISA
HockeyStack is creating a single source of truth and reporting for marketing, sales, and all customer data.
We came out of YC S23, and raised $4.3M from General Catalyst, Madrona, et al.
We grew from 0 to multi millions in annual revenue within a little over a year, profitably.
You will work on difficult problems in ingesting, storing, transforming, and reporting on billions of rows of data.
Examples:
- Finding patterns in what closes a deal using machine learning
- Scaling the infra every other month to handle the load
- Creating a dynamic SQL engine that takes input from a couple of dropdowns to replicate all BI functionality that revenue teams want
- Maintaining reliability in tens of integrations that ingest full CRM databases and building new ones
We have been doing this with a small but mighty team consisting of early startup engineers and founding CTOs (including one who founded a $900m company).
We have an intense culture -- we like to win, and win we do.
If you are exceptional at what you do, and you want to pour your heart out to build the largest enterprise software company in the world, please reach out at
We're building the most comprehensive, but still easy-to-use analytics tool out there. Specifically useful for SaaS businesses that want to collect and unify marketing, product engagement, sales, and subscription revenue data.
I've seen tons of similar analytics products pop up in the last year and have avoided them all for having out-of-country data storage (and usually less functionality, etc). With how volatile data-related laws have been in the EU the past few years, IMO it feels risky to try to store anything there, let alone view it as a feature!
I think you're putting your finger on why it is a selling point. You're avoiding them because they're out of country, and that makes sense. For Europeans, the default has been "US hosted data" for a long while, and having options that store data in our jurisdiction is thus a selling point.
Fewer jurisdictions is almost certainly going to be easier, and these options offer that for the European market.
Thanks for the explanation. HN is so notoriously US-centric at times that it didn't occur to me that these services offer the same perks from the other side of the pond.
I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion. Data privacy laws are among the strongest in the world here. It is a selling point because of that, but also because there are laws against sending user data to non-EU countries.
It feels risky to have my data stored anywhere else other than the EU. Feels like my data is just up for grabs anywhere else with no clear privacy protection. Imo EU is the best place to have your data.
Your pricing is an order of magnitude too high, given there are better free solutions out there. Would be like me selling a search engine service for $99 a month when Google and Bing exist.
I would suggest learning how to do marketing, writing down an excruciatingly detailed process (on Notion), and then automating a part of it while delegating the rest to freelancers.
Though, to delegate as much as possible, you will need a good amount of capital.
Zapier is useful for integrating common tools (slack, drive, asana, etc etc) but would not be a good choice for most nontrivial ETL, or nontrivial any kind of integration.
Eg, you want a slack notification when a Google form is filled out. Pretty painless to set up a zap.
You want to keep a database table up to date with a Google sheet. You can do it on zapier, but it's gonna be a pain.
Well you can still track unique users without collecting PII. The information sent with every web request by default is still pretty useful. That's how we do it at https://www.hockeystack.com, no need for all this work.
I feel like, 5 years from now, that comment will be reposted daily on vague motivational twitter threads. It's the infamous ftp comment of dropbox all over again.
Google Analytics has many more use cases than looking at vanity metrics to be replaced by a shell script. Something like https://hockeystack.com gets closer.
HockeyStack is creating a single source of truth and reporting for marketing, sales, and all customer data.
We came out of YC S23, and raised $4.3M from General Catalyst, Madrona, et al.
We went from 0 to millions in ARR in a really short time and are in a DEEPLY URGENT need of really good engineers to help scale infra and backend.
The product collects data from CRM, marketing automation, ad platforms and data warehouses. The data then gets cleaned and transformed into a unified format. Out of the unified data format, customers can create any type of report the want using the UI. We have a dynamic query engine that transforms UI inputs into a query.
Because of the flexibility and how much data we process, keeping integrations up, transforming data accurately, reporting accurately and performantly is a huge technical challenge.
Please email me at bugra @ hockeystack.com if you want to take a crack at some of these problems.
Worth noting that we are fully in-person in a beautiful office near Oracle Park in SF!