📍 Remote (U.S. Only) | 🕐 Full-Time | 💰 Equity-Based | 🛠️ gRPC • Data Pipelines • Startups
Join Meetsta in shaping the future of digital connection.
We’re a fast-growing social networking startup on a mission to make connection smarter, more authentic, and deeply personalized. As a Founding Data Engineer, you’ll help lay the foundation of our data infrastructure and design real-time data flows that power our core features.
🚀 What You’ll Do
- Build scalable, reliable gRPC-based pipelines to transport and transform real-time data
- Design and optimize backend data systems to support app features and analytics
- Work cross-functionally with product, mobile, and backend engineers
- Shape the data architecture behind a social platform with millions of potential users
- Ensure performance, observability, and reliability across the data stack
🔧 What You Bring
- BS/MS/PhD in CS, Engineering, or related field (completed or in progress at U.S. institution)
- Hands-on experience in data engineering, backend development, or distributed systems
- Familiarity with gRPC, APIs, and third-party integrations
- Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL pipelines, or event-driven systems
- Passion for startups, fast iteration, and building foundational systems from scratch
- Bonus: experience with cloud services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Kafka, or similar tech
💥 Why Meetsta
- Join a high-impact early team where your work directly shapes the product
- Fully remote-first culture, flexible hours
- Work alongside founders and engineers who move fast and value craftsmanship
- Equity-based compensation – this is your chance to be a true owner
⚠️ Notes
- U.S. citizens and permanent residents only
- Compensation is equity-only, best suited for engineers excited about early-stage ownership
🔗 Apply today and help build a data-first social network from the ground up.