DataFox
DataFox is the real-time source of truth on over 2.5 million companies around the world. Sales, marketing, and investment professionals all rely on DataFox to understand their markets and prioritize which companies to target.
DataFox helps industry-leading businesses find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities. DataFox's team of 100+ human analysts verify AI-sourced insights on millions of businesses to provide robust Company Data, Growth Signals, and Account Scoring.
DataFox is backed by Goldman Sachs, Green Visor, Google Ventures, and Slack, and used by high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike (e.g. UPS, Accel Partners, Bain & Company, Twilio, Zendesk, and Outreach). For more information, visit www.datafox.com






Why join us?
We have a lot of interesting engineering challenges including machine learning, backend scaling, and user-interaction design.
You will work on high impact projects and have context to understand and shape the product you're building.
We take our company value 'constant learning' to heart and make a conscious effort to learn from each other and grow.
Engineering at DataFox
We have a small team of full-stack engineers split into three scrum teams based on ownership areas. You'll work on the part of the stack you're most interested in but most projects can span from front-end visualization to backend data-modeling to dev-ops changes. You'll own your project from initial scoping to coordinating the roll out with Marketing and Customer Success. We work in weekly sprints and deploy daily.
You can read more about how our engineering team works and our top values here: https://www.keyvalues.io/datafox
We have many challenges related to large data sets and scale. We have a large data pipeline where we process 460,000 articles per week, running NLP/ML to identify companies and to extract relevant news. We have over 2 million companies and 7k conferences. Our system has over 6 million Solr queries a day.
We also have interesting design and workflow problems to solve. How do we help our users discover the most relevant information to them at the right time?
Framework to allow customers to integrate custom proprietary data sets into our product so they can use the full set of information they have access to all from one place.
Redesign our filtering UI: work closely with our design team to re-implement how our customers filter down from over 2 million companies using 50+ different filtering options while still keeping our queries to Solr fast and efficient.
Work on the algorithms, systems, and internal tools needed for extracting key data points from the public web at scale.
Expand our footprint in the Sales & Marketing space by building out integrations to more CRMs.
Working at DataFox
We're building a collaborative, diverse team of people with a passion for automating grunt work. We're hardworking but humble with a focus on constant learning and self development. We're a close-knit skulk but we also have lives outside of work.
Read more about our company values here: https://www.datafox.com/company/careers/
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Free Food
Lunch is catered every day. We have a fully stocked pantry with snacks and drinks.
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Beautiful Office
We're located in the heart of SOMA, near many transit options.
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Team Activities
Quarterly company-wide socials (ex. bowling, beach day). Monthly happy hour. Engineering team bonding events (ex. board game night, Escape the Room). Volunteer events (ex. Project Open Hand, St. Vincent de Paul Society's homeless shelter).
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401(k) Contribution
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Health Insurance
Health, dental, and vision insurance.
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Gym/Fitness
Access to a discounted gym membership.
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Transportation
Caltrain expenses fully covered for commuters. We also provide a commuter benefits program.
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Maternal/Paternal Leave
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Generous Vacation
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Workshops/Conferences
Employees receive up to $1,500 a year or equivalent towards continuing career or personal education.
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