SF / Seattle / Toronto / Remote (PST - EST), US / Canada

Who We Are

Inventive is an early-stage stealth startup at the exciting intersection of no-code development tools and customer-facing products.

Funded by some of the most successful operators and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and started by seasoned data technology leaders from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, we’re building a platform for data products with the ambition to completely transform the way businesses solve problems with data.

Through our intuitive, easy-to-use browser based tools, we empower non-technical domain experts closest to their customers’ problems to rapidly build high value solutions that unlock smarter business operations and accelerate growth.

If you're passionate about democratizing product development and excited about leading this movement with a customer-obsessed team... read on.

The Impact You Can Make

As one of the company’s founding engineers, you will be a critical builder responsible for laying the technical foundation and vision for a truly innovative product with the potential to transform Enterprise software forever. Daily decisions you make will have an outsized impact on our roadmap and company culture both immediately and as we scale.

We can’t build this business without someone like you.

You May Love This Job If …

None of these are hard requirements, as few people have trained specifically for this kind of role. If you resemble what we describe, but aren’t sure, just apply! We’ll figure out together if this is a job you’ll love.

• You are eager to be a hands-on contributor. You are curious and seek to actively work with, learn from, and grow a world-class engineering team around you as we scale.

• You are pragmatic with technology choices and can balance the need for velocity to continuously grow customer value against a strategic, scalable architecture.

• You thrive in ambiguity, enjoy the independence and autonomy in finding solutions to undefined problems, and take pride in your impact.

• You embody an ownership mindset and thrive in high performance, outcome-driven work environments.

• You enjoy playing to your strengths, and view challenges as opportunities to adapt, overcome, and grow.

• You are passionate about the impact you can have on bringing much needed development tools to non-technical domain experts across every industry.

• You have significant experience working on data apps and/or data platforms.

Things You Might Do…

• Lead and ship E2E projects across backend and/or frontend with big business impact

• Understand key customer needs and propose technology-driven solutions

• Set the foundation for a high performance remote-first engineering culture.

• Work directly with the rest of the founding team to shape and influence our product strategy and roadmap.

Why You Might Be Excited About Us

• Our mission, vision and plans are *ambitious* – we plan to make a huge global impact on how companies serve their customers one day soon.

• We’re a startup – no BS, incredible ownership and sky-high opportunity.

• It’s execution time – our CEO & Founder advised 100s of customers facing the problem we’re solving while running Platform and Product Marketing teams at Google Cloud. Our second co-founder was one of those customers who faced the challenges first-hand for years at her previous companies. We deeply understand the value we’re bringing to customers and how we can achieve that value; we’re not throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

• We’re already well funded by leading operators and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, we have world class institutional investors excited to participate in our seed, and we are poised to build the single winning company in the space and seize the massive market opportunity.

• You’ll get to work remotely and set your own schedule. As we grow, we plan to have hybrid/remote workplaces to collaborate effectively across many work environments.

Our Core Values

Customer-first: We prioritize to maximize customer value with velocity, focus and simplicity.

• ️ Elite athletes: We’re here to win, and take care of each other to sustain peak performance.

Many Perspectives, One Team: We value and respect each others’ differences; when we disagree we still move forward.

Do what’s right: We act on our duty to do well and good, as a team and as part of our communities.

Continuous improvement: We hire people better than ourselves and keep a growth mindset.

✍️ Concision & Precision: We value clear, rigorous thought, give regular feedback and we’re always prepared.

Let’s go! We move fast, play it loud, and keep turning it up.

How We Hire

We know first hand that diverse and inclusive teams lead to bigger impact and success.