Data Engineer, Discovery

About Pagoda

Pagoda is the first-ever Web3 Startup Platform where developers and entrepreneurs can build, launch, and operate new blockchain-based products and services. As a primary builder of the NEAR Protocol, Pagoda delivers capacity, velocity, simplicity, and affordability needed to power tomorrow’s Web3 startups.

We are looking for an innovative, empathetic, and productive person who is excited about building the next generation of crypto startups, feels comfortable challenging opinions, and most importantly who shares with us the same desire to make the web free again.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Pagoda is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.

What You’ll Get For Joining:

• Unlimited Annual Leave / PTO
• $2,000 Yearly Continued Education Reimbursement
• $2,000 Home Office Setup Reimbursement
• Yearly Company Retreats (2022 in Lisbon!)
• Paid Holiday Week: the last week of the year
• Paid Summer Wellness Week: the first week of July
• Mental Health Support and access to licensed therapists through Spill, 100% paid by us

About The Role:

In this role, you will work closely with the search and data platform teams to devise and implement innovative strategies for intelligent search, component discovery, social discovery, social recommendation, and development component discovery. You will be a leader in applying the latest machine learning and data science techniques to accelerate our products. You will help analyze available data (traditional, social, blockchain, content) and work closely with engineering and product to devise tools or tool enhancements based on the available data. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Analyzing current available data to determine what product innovations are possible
• Collaborating with the data platform team to ensure data is available to ML and other systems for easy consumption and processing
• Designing data insight systems that will be compatible with the developer and user facing software being built in the Discovery platform
• Implementing relevant APIs, interfaces and data access points
• Collaborating with product, engineering, security and devops to ensure solutions are efficient, cost-optimized, maintainable, scalable and secure

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must
• Deep understanding of data insight techniques and technologies including Machine Learning
• An understanding of how ML systems are run in production
• Sufficient programming experience to build APIs, simple scripts and other programming required to expose your work to engineering teams
• Strong communication and remote friendly working skills

We'd Love If You Have:

• Experience with search, discovery or social applications. 
• Familiarity with Ethereum development and related technologies (web3.js, ethers.js, etc)
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies
• Experience working at a startup

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under three weeks. Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
• Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-45 minutes)
• Technical Interviews (4 x 60 minutes) 
• Pagoda Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

Ideal Location For This Role

This is a fully remote role, so that your timezone matches or overlaps with our leadership for this role, you’ll ideally be located in North/South America/Europe/Africa.

Our Values at Pagoda

Innovate and deliver—so our customers can build. We deliver new solutions for real, often urgent, customer needs. Practical over hype. We uphold our standards of excellence while balancing velocity and pragmatism.

Focus precious time and energy on what matters. We are intentional about where we aim our resources. We channel our talents to focus on the critical missions in order to make an outsized impact. 

Favor ownership, agency and action. Everyone is an owner. As individuals, we are responsible and accountable for our work. We empower builders to make decisions and innovate without the burden of unnecessary roadblocks or complexity. 

Work as a team of empathetic humans. We practice mutual respect, open communication, humility and collaboration. We are kind and empathetic. We are welcoming towards diversity in all forms, including differences of perspective.

Never break trust. Integrity is rare—and valuable—in this space. Reputation is hard to build and easy to break.