Role overview
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI, bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $44B in assets under management across multiple funds.
Weâve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what itâs like to be in the founderâs shoes. Weâve invested in companies like Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, Devoted Health, Insitro, Figma, GitHub, Instacart, OpenSea, Roblox, Stripe, and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
You will join a fully-functional team of autonomous, senior ICs developing internal software tools for the firmâs investing and operations teams. You should be an experienced, detail-oriented, and focused software engineer with an enthusiasm for building feature-rich, data-driven applications. Your primary responsibilities will involve the identification, acquisition, and normalization of alternative data sources for use in our products. You will be required to design and implement performant backend systems that operate securely and at scale.
What you'll work on
- Understand and optimize the workflows of teams across the firm through the development and deployment of intelligent software
- Contribute directly to team-wide discussions of new features and implementation of new software products for our investing and operational teams
- Ship new and unique data products quickly and often, engage our users, and continuously iterate on internal feedback
- Operate autonomously, advocate for yourself, and own the teamâs success
- Write elegant, principled logic that is both powerful and easy to understand
- Bring positive energy in every interaction with the team and foster inclusive collaboration
- Engage with the latest academic research and tooling
What we're looking for
- 6+ yrs. professional software engineering experience
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure deployments on GCP, AWS, and/or Azure
- Experience with production SQL and NoSQL (ideally Elasticsearch) database management
- Professional development of containerized services and use of container orchestration systems, ideally Kubernetes
- Deep knowledge of Python3 â or another backend language and willingness to learn
- Experience in rapid iteration and consistent excellence in process, ideally at a successful early-stage startup or as a senior IC at a larger company
- Strong problem-solving skills and mathematical intuition
- Bonus: excited about advances in LLM space, ideally already using them