Software Engineer, Backend

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mixpanel</strong></p> <p>Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit <a href="mixpanel.com" target="_blank">mixpanel.com</a> to learn more.</p></div><p><strong>About The Role</strong></p> <p>The Reporting &amp; Analysis team builds tools that help answer our customer's most commonly asked questions such as, “How many users do an activity every day in my product?”, “How many users complete a specific flow in my app?”, “What are the most common paths a user takes in my app?”, “What percentage of users come back in a month after signup?”, and so on. We create great looking and easy to understand, yet comprehensive visualizations to answer these questions. We also develop functionalities like dashboards, sharing, and alerting for the data and insights our customers care about the most. Our team’s goal is to <span id="1dad0ab726f2bb0bd78e095a171c1058" class="editor-module-hl-grey-underline">deeply</span> understand what insights our users are trying to find and provide them&nbsp;with tools to&nbsp;<span id="4305aa0aa95c7d7bfa01f6c7cd64e760" class="editor-module-hl-purple-solid">make data-driven decisions</span> and test their hypotheses. We organize in small, <span id="607827560e27d08a1efd0eabd7a68dc8" class="editor-module-hl-purple-solid">nimble</span> product groups (two to five engineers in close partnership with PM and design) with huge autonomy over what we build and how we build it.</p> <p><strong>We're Looking For Someone Who Has</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A proven track record of launching and maintaining large-scale web products</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A deep understanding of web application architecture and principles</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mastery of at least one programming language</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Points For</strong></p> <p><strong>Additional Resources&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/mixpanel-inc-/life/14c165ce-2dcd-43fd-8971-0e7e1932bcc0/?viewAsMember=true&amp;lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Acompanies_company_life_life%3B055e4f0d-41ed-4d1b-bf1b-b80f9a320121" target="_blank">Engineering Life Page&nbsp;</a></li> <li><a href="https://engineering.mixpanel.com/" target="_blank">Engineering Blog</a></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Benefits and Perks</strong><strong><br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care</li> <li>Mental Wellness Benefit</li> <li>Generous Vacation Policy &amp; Additional Company Holidays</li> <li>Enhanced Parental Leave</li> <li>Volunteer Time Off</li> <li>Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break</li> </ul> <p><em>*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*</em></p> <p><strong>Culture Values</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Make Bold Bets:</strong> We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.</li> <li><strong>Innovate with Insight:</strong> We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive&nbsp;powerful outcomes.</li> <li><strong>One Team:</strong> We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.</li> <li><strong>Candor with Connection:</strong> We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.</li> <li><strong>Champion the Customer:</strong> We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.</li> <li><st