Technical Architect, Integrations (DataMover)

You should join koodos labs for the people and our mission.

We aspire to build the best team of the 2020s. Just like PayPal in the 90s, Google in the 00s, and Stripe in the 10s, we want to be known as "a place where it's good to be from." If you join us, we promise to be the best place to grow your career — with the best people you've ever worked with. We’re also working on a very bold mission.

We care deeply about giving people more agency over their online experience, and helping people connect more deeply with themselves and others. We will be the company that’ll invert the internet's personal data model and put individuals in control of their digital life.

We’re the creators of Shelf – a digital storefront for your taste that builds a private data store around your consumption habits. Hundreds of thousands of people use Shelf to track what they consume, share what they’re into, and connect more meaningfully with others.

Under the hood is DataMover, a tool enabling users to authenticate and extract their own data from any site to store privately on Shelf, where they can selectively provision access. This “Plaid for user data” is already in use by a number of apps and agents, including Shelf, helping users reclaim and consolidate over half a billion data points, unlocking experiences otherwise impossible.

We believe that the way consumers and businesses interact with their data will drastically improve in the next few years. Koodos Labs is building the products and infrastructure that’ll usher this shift and you'll be essential in achieving this vision.

We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful engineer with deep experience building integrations to sites without APIs. This includes reverse engineering APIs, building browser automations, remotely authenticating users, using proxies, and more.

This role is focused on building the foundations of DataMover — the underlying infrastructure that Shelf is built on, and that a number of other apps are starting to use for user-provisioned access to data.

In this role:

We’re early stage, so you'll have an outsized equity stake and an unparalleled opportunity to shape the product direction.

We're NY-based (we have our own office in West Soho) and our team works in-person.

Given the unique nature of this role, we’re open to this team member working remotely, if they’re willing to take trips to visit HQ regularly.

We’re a small, but mighty team with backgrounds at YouTube, Harvard, and Cambridge, as startup founders and as early members at companies like Improbable and Lyft. We’ve come together around a shared vision and are dedicated to creating important and positive experiences for cyberspace.

We're well resourced (unannounced rounds) & backed by top-tier investors, including the backers of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, and Twitter, as well as the founders of companies like Zynga, VSCO, and Scale and the people behind artists like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lorde, Logic, and Panic! At The Disco, and many others. Our team is advised by the founders of Pinterest, Dubsmash (now Reddit), as well as pioneers of digital marketing and market design from Harvard.

We care about building a genuinely diverse team. We are a majority-first gen immigrant team and sponsor visas — we think that’s important as we build towards enabling easier digital migration. We share the same values of individuality, empathy, reliability, kindness and humility. One big overlap among our life experiences is contrasts: contrasts between our own upbringing and the world around us, contrasts between what was expected of us and what we ended up pursuing and our bringing together of contrasting, interdisciplinary worlds.

More about us here.

You’re likely a good fit if you:

Here are some quotes from team members around what they want to see:

Day 1: You’ll merge your first PR. We want our developer experience to be as smooth as possible, so this first day is a good test of how we’re doing on dev ops. The code changes will be very minor — just adding your name to a file and merging it to the main branch.

Day 7: You’ll ship your first feature to production. We believe in learning-by-doing, so we’ll assign you a small feature that lets you run through our full feature planning and development pipeline. We’ll make sure you have support at every step along the way.

Day 50: You’ll help ship code across the backend, from services to CI/CD. As an early-stage startup, we have high-impact features all across our codebase, and you’ll be able to build solutions wherever the need arises.

In the Future: You’ll become a senior leader at koodos labs, either as a people manager or an individual contributor. We expect the early team to grow into high-impact roles as the company scales.

We lean heavily on prior experience, demonstrated ability, and references. We don’t want to have brilliant people inverting binary trees or solving riddles.

Interviews: We start the interview process with a conversation with our CEO to hear more about your prior experience and goals, and to tell you more about koodos labs. If we both think there’s a potential fit, we’ll have a second interview with a deep-dive on your prior experiences with our CTO or a senior engineer on our founding team.

Onsite: We’ll invite you to meet the team! It’ll be a series of practical whiteboarding sessions with team members and an opportunity to grab lunch with us ​

References: After the interview stage, we ask for 2-3 references who would be willing to discuss their experiences working with you. We will also likely reach out to other folks that you’ve worked with in the past, so please do let us know if there’s anyone we shouldn’t reach out to. We’ll make sure to be respectful of their time; most calls take about 15 minutes. And we also offer you the opportunity to reference check us!

Decision: This part’s on us, and we promise to move fast.