About Byterat
Byterat is a modern data platform for battery science. We provide battery teams at companies like Panasonic or Tesla with the core data platform they need to innovate, securely at scale. Byterat runs in the background of a battery lab, and enables scientists to analyze thousands of parallel experiments at once to connect the dots between battery design and performance.
About the role
Skills: GraphQL, Node.js, React, TypeScriptAbout Byterat
Byterat is the modern data platform for battery science. We give battery teams at companies like Panasonic or Tesla the core data platform they need to innovate, securely at scale.
We’re a well-funded, VC-backed start-up with customers and recurring revenue. We’re backed by world-class investors like Y Combinator, Giant Ventures and Collaborative Fund, and angels such as founders of Zendesk and Voi, and executives from Google, Meta and Figma.
We’re growing rapidly, which presents career-defining opportunities for ambitious engineers to accelerate their growth and contribute to a quickly evolving startup in SF. You’ll be joining our in-person team of engineers and physicists with backgrounds from Rivian, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Shopify, U. Cambridge and other YC start-ups.
Our Mission
- Batteries play a key role in tackling climate change. $73B was invested in US battery plants in 2022, and battery company revenue is expected to grow >5x over the next decade.
- Global carmakers alone are forecast to spend $515B on electric vehicle and battery R&D by 2030. But battery engineers are woefully underserved by software, relying on broken legacy products to analyze their data. Most data is never analyzed or used meaningfully.
- Byterat is the first platform to provide battery teams with the infrastructure they need to unlock business value from their battery data. Byterat is live in battery labs across three continents today, allowing teams to analyze data from thousands of parallel experiments and unlock previously hidden insights connecting battery design to performance.
We might be a fit for you if…
- You’re ambitious and you want to move fast. You want to accelerate your trajectory and have an outsized impact on a rapidly growing VC-backed startup in SF.
- You’re hard-working. You’re a team player. You can communicate effectively and respectfully. You pay attention to details. You like to solve the most important problems and you’re good at doing that. You adapt quickly.
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you’re given autonomy to build core features.
- You are proficient in React and TypeScript with a strong understanding of their libraries and frameworks.
- You are familiar with GraphQL and its integration with front-end applications.
- You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- You have 1+ years of front-end engineering experience, ideally in a "start-up" like environment where you have taken full ownership for shipping ambitious features.
- You write high-quality, clean and maintainable code quickly.
- You want to join a strong, supportive, high-performance team, and work in-person in SF. You set an exceptionally high performance bar for yourself and everyone on the team. You are not afraid to communicate what is working and what needs to improve.
- BONUS: You have experience building front-end components for data visualization, analytics and modeling web applications.
The role
- Develop and ship ambitious product features, collaborating with back-end developers to integrate front-end components with server-side logic.
- Develop and maintain responsive and high-performance user interfaces using React and TypeScript.
- Collaborate with back-end developers to integrate front-end components with server-side logic.
- Implement and optimize GraphQL queries and mutations.
Our tech stack
- Postgres database with data indexing using ElasticSearch
- Modern python based ETL with a node.js / next.js GraphQL layer
- React TypeScript front-end
- Hosted in AWS with Kubernetes
Technology
Postgres database with data indexing using ElasticSearchModern python based ETL with a node.js / next.js GraphQL layerReact TypeScript Front-endHosted in AWS with Kubernetes
Interview Process
- 15 minute intro call with our founder
- Take-home challenge: we've distilled our platform to ~1k loc. The challenge is to tell us what the mini platform does and implement a new feature.
- 30 minute live coding challenge
- Meet our team in SF:
- Present a 5 minute presentation on a recent engineering challenge you found interesting to solve
- Whiteboarding session with our engineering team
- Chat with our leadership team to get to know each other in depth
- Reference check
We run a 1 month fully paid trial with every new member of our team so we can mutually assess whether we are a long term fit for each other.
