[Remote] Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Berkeley Hunt has partnered with an early-stage AI startup to hire a Software Engineer to help build and scale a customer intelligence platform for eCommerce brands. This role involves building data collection systems and working closely with the founders to translate business needs into technical solutions, all while leveraging AI to improve data analysis pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the core customer intelligence platform, focusing on data collection, aggregation, and insight generation
- Develop and maintain scraping infrastructure across social platforms including TikTok, Instagram, and other key channels
- Build systems that identify buying intent and surface demand signals from social conversations and online communities
- Work closely with the founders on product direction, translating business needs into technical solutions
- Leverage AI to improve data analysis pipelines and accelerate product capabilities
- Ship features quickly in a fast-moving startup environment where your work has immediate, visible impact
Skills
- Strong experience building data collection, web scraping, or social media aggregation systems
- Proficiency in Python, the primary language for data engineering, scraping, and backend development
- Experience with Django or a comparable backend framework for building and maintaining APIs and platform infrastructure
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, with an ability to design and optimise data pipelines
- Experience with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, or similar) for building scalable, event-driven data workflows
- Comfortable working across the stack, frontend experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript is expected alongside backend and data work
- Familiarity with social platforms and the technical challenges of extracting structured data from unstructured sources
- A product-focused mindset, you think about user outcomes, not just technical implementation
- Comfort working in a small team with high autonomy and evolving priorities
- Proven ability to ship in a startup or fast-moving environment
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