sea.dev | Product Engineer | London, UK | Remote (EU time zone) with quarterly gatherings | Full-time | Fintech
sea.dev is looking to hire our second engineer. We are looking for a “Full Stack Product Engineer” to help build our product. We are building technology that enables financial institutions to flexibly embed LLM capabilities into their workflows and product offerings. The founding team has worked at world-leading financial and research institutions, and brings together decades of experience in data technology, graphs, and finance. We have extensive prior experience building data teams and launching data products from scratch.
sea.dev | Full Stack Product Engineer | London, UK | Hybrid UK | Full-time | Fintech
sea.dev is looking to hire our first engineer. We are looking for a “Full Stack Product Engineer” to help build our product.
We are building technology that enables financial institutions to flexibly embed LLM capabilities into their workflows and product offerings.
The founding team has worked at world-leading financial and research institutions, and brings together decades of experience in data technology, graphs, and finance. We have extensive prior experience building data teams and launching data products from scratch.
FAQ: Pre-seed. VC-backed. Team of three. Fully remote but centred around London
sea.dev | Full Stack Product Engineer | London, UK | Hybrid UK | Full-time | Fintech
sea.dev is looking to hire our first engineer. We are looking for a “Full Stack Product Engineer” to help build our product.
We are building technology that enables financial institutions to flexibly embed LLM capabilities into their workflows and product offerings.
The founding team has worked at world-leading financial and research institutions, and brings together decades of experience in data technology, graphs, and finance. We have extensive prior experience building data teams and launching data products from scratch.
FAQ: Pre-seed. VC-backed. Team of three. Fully remote but centred around London
Do you anticipate going more towards improving the data modelling capabilities (take on dbt et al) or more towards Business Intelligence (dashboards then hosting then drag&drop query builder all the way until the dreaded pdf export)
Something that is overlooked in the dbt direction is how complex data models get.
BI nothing seems overlooked, it is just hard!
I like that you have a clear anti-ICP [dbt customers, analysts]. This keeps you clear of the BI/DWH space. I do wonder how you avoid getting stuck in the BI tar pit [], or avoid getting stuck in the dbt middleware zone. Maybe with a core focus on engineers getting further and further without needing a BI/data team!
Hitting us with the hard questions! And honestly this is something people overlook about the realities of the data space.
It's always easier to communicate what you are not, so let's begin there:
- drag and drop query builder
- absolute prettiest graphs
- tailored to the least sophisticated user
In addition to what I think we are not, I think there is some space for our belief about what the data space is/is not:
- We don't think data self-serve is possible but rather small datasets can be tailored. Fundamentally it comes down to complexity and data is complex. It takes expertise/skill to get value from data.
- It takes experts to get value from data, but as systems get better it will take fewer.
- Businesses should not be data driven, they should be reason driven.
- We don't think data dominates business, it's a supporting tool and so we don't think it will every the entry point for everything but rather supports process, so we want to appear in places where we can support that reasoning, like a chart in a Notion doc.
Now a few bits about what we are:
- Tool for those experts and engineers
- Tool to make them the most productive ever
- Prevent messes that people get themselves in in BI by injecting software engineering practices into the process (we know many companies with full time employees responsible for cleaning up messes)
People get pretty far with tablet apps these days (literally), and there is a good market for the development of the apps. Hardware integration is always the challenge.
See 59-north for examples of offshore sailing schools who seem to have found a good mix of modern and reliable
I agree with your experience, it does feel a bit insane, but just to point out this is the result of too much competition selling a commodity product rather than a monopoly.
Disagree. Consolidation is driving this behavior - smaller companies in a competitive market would not be able to offend customers to this degree. Certain routes are dominated by one "alliance" (cartel) that basically boils down to American, United or Delta. You have a few smaller brands like Alaska, Southwest (which has underinvested in their infrastructure), Jet Blue and Spirit (who are currently trying to merge), but it's not enough.
You need to break up the cartel model so that (e.g.) Delta has real competition for routes to Atlanta. If I look at nonstop flights from LAX to Atlanta for a random day (Apr 1, 2024) your options are: 1 American flight, 1 Alaska flight, 3 Spirit flights (way more expensive) or a Delta flight just about any time you want to travel. That's not "too much competition selling a commodity product" - it's what I would expect from cartel pricing. There is a thin veneer of competition, but Delta owns that route - 90%+ of traffic is going to fly Delta.
Fair enough, my experience is European where you usually have multiple options and most people decide by price.
I will say I was amazed by how few options I had to get from JFK to Denver and the price was insane relative to a transatlantic flight, so perhaps the market is structured differently.
sea.dev is looking to hire our second engineer. We are looking for a “Full Stack Product Engineer” to help build our product. We are building technology that enables financial institutions to flexibly embed LLM capabilities into their workflows and product offerings. The founding team has worked at world-leading financial and research institutions, and brings together decades of experience in data technology, graphs, and finance. We have extensive prior experience building data teams and launching data products from scratch.
FAQ: Pre-seed. VC-backed. Team of four.
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