Backend Engineer, Data

About the role

ABOUT MINERVA

Minerva builds AI for marketing leaders. We work together with marketers to automate and accelerate their workflows with AI agents. Our agents augment the end-to-end workflow of the marketer by automating analysis, campaign planning, activation, measurement and reporting.

Customers like the NBA, Ramp, Wander, Hard Rock Stadium Group and Luxury Presence use Minerva to develop a better understanding of their customers and introduce AI specifically built to understand the customer into their commercial organizations. Our campaigns outperform other tools because we built the entire stack: from identity to enrichment to data integration as well as agents to action and report on the analysis.

We've raised $20M from The General Partnership, 8VC, Lingotto, NBA Investments, Topology Ventures, Future Positive, Background Capital and many others. Our team brings together operators and investors from Citadel, Dentsu, Bridgewater, Meta Superintelligence, Growthloop, Amazon and Lazard, alongside engineers and researchers from Berkeley, MIT, Stanford and Cambridge.

THE ROLE

A warehouse full of consumer data does nothing for a marketer until they can sort, filter and chart it in the time it takes to ask the question.

Our data team builds the consumer graph and each brand's first-party models, and our data scientists train scores on top. This seat makes all of it usable in the product: first-party fields that respond instantly, scores on the pages marketers already use, segments that stay current, and an agent that turns a plain-English question into the right query against a brand's own data.

This is an IC or senior IC seat on product engineering, working day to day with data engineering and data science. Your counterpart on the warehouse side is our Staff Data Engineer, who owns the golden model and publishes the semantic views you build on.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own how first-party data performs in the app. Any field a brand connects can be sorted, filtered and charted without a live warehouse query. You decide what gets precomputed, where it lives and how it stays fresh.

- Own how our models reach marketers. Propensity, LTV, churn and product-fit scores on the person, segment and product pages, with full distributions instead of a single number.

- Own dynamic segments. Segments that update as new data lands, with stats ready for activation.

- Own the in-app agent's query tool, built on the semantic views our data platform team publishes. You own the path from a marketer's question to the right rows.

- Own the product side of the sync. What gets precomputed, and the path from Postgres to the synced client. Each hop costs money and time, and you choose on purpose.

- Extend the pipelines. You mostly build on what the data team produces. When a feature needs a table that doesn't exist, you write the model or pipeline step yourself.

- Ship end to end. One feature can mean a Python Lambda, a Zero schema change and a TanStack Start page. You ship all three.