Job Description
About Us:
YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. Every day, our proprietary technology analyzes billions of alternative data points to uncover actionable insights across sectors like software, AI, cloud, e-commerce, ridesharing, and payments.
Our data and research teams transform raw data into strategic intelligence, delivering accurate, timely, and deeply contextualized analysis that our customers—ranging from the world’s top investment funds to Fortune 500 companies—depend on to drive high-stakes decisions. From sourcing and licensing novel datasets to rigorous analysis and expert narrative framing, our teams ensure clients get not just data, but clarity and confidence.
We operate globally with offices in the US (NYC, Austin, Miami, Mountain View), APAC (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore), and India. Our award-winning, people-centric culture—recognized by Inc. as a Best Workplace for three consecutive years—emphasizes transparency, ownership, and continuous mastery.
What It’s Like to Work at YipitData:
YipitData isn’t a place for coasting—it’s a launchpad for ambitious, impact-driven professionals.
From day one, you’ll take the lead on meaningful work, accelerate your growth, and gain exposure that shapes careers.
Why Top Talent Chooses YipitData:
- Ownership That Matters: You’ll lead high-impact projects with real business outcomes
- Rapid Growth: We compress years of learning into months
- Merit Over Titles: Trust and responsibility are earned through execution, not tenure
- Velocity with Purpose: We move fast, support each other, and aim high—always with purpose and intention
If your ambition is matched by your work ethic—and you’re hungry for a place where growth, impact, and ownership are the norm—YipitData might be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.
About The Role:
We’re scaling fast and need a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team who can develop our state-of-the-art AI Platform used by the entire company and our customers. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of architecting and developing full-stack applications, strong interest in agentic workflows, and 4+ years working on web applications built with React/JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Databricks, and AWS.
This is a remote-friendly opportunity that can sit in NYC (where our headquarter is located), one of our office hubs (Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, or Seattle), or anywhere else in the US. However, depending upon where the remote work is performed, income could be subject to New York State tax withholding.
We expect East Coast work hours.
As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will:
- Architect and deliver key features of our AI Platform ecosystem - including both internal tools and external-facing applications, such as our customer-facing agentic experience.
- Serve as a subject matter expert across the whole stack, and report directly to the Chief Architect, who will provide hands‑on mentorship in cutting‑edge AI-native development, web, big data analytics, and cloud infrastructure.
- Leverage AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex to improve personal productivity, ship trustworthy solutions faster through harness engineering, code quality, and documentation.
- Collaborate with other application engineers, PMs, and stakeholders on evolving our application platform for scale, testability, and reliability.
- Produce clear documentation: create playbooks, docs, and training materials to institutionalize best practices.
You Are Likely To Succeed If:
- You have 4+ years of hands‑on software development experience with a proven track record designing, building, and maintaining complex applications supporting data analytics use cases.
- You have hands‑on, production‑level expertise with AWS, Python, JavaScript, and React; familiarity with FastAPI, React, Databricks is a strong plus.
- You have an AI‑accelerated mindset — hands‑on experience piloting or institutionalizing developer‑productivity tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
- You are able to navigate ambiguity — you are able to understand key business problems and translate them into executable plans, and deliver concrete engineering outcomes quickly
- You are a highly motivated self-starter on the initiatives you work on and are eager to constantly learn new technologies.
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a related technical discipline.
What We Offer:
Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary:
- We care about your personal life, and we mean it. We offer flexible work hours, flexible vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more!
- Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust. See more on our high-impact, high-opportunity work environment above!
- The annual on-target earnings for this position is anticipated to be up to $185K ~ $200K . The final offer may be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, as well as internal team benchmarks.
This role may be performed fully remotely within the United States. Please note that our US headquarters are located in NYC. We also have office hubs in Austin, Miami, and Mountain View. If the remote work is performed outside of these offices, income may be subject to New York State tax withholding.
Please note that for this position, we are not able to consider candidates who currently or in the future will require visa sponsorship.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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