Working at Ethyca - Define the Future of Data Privacy Management

In this article, we invite you to discover Ethyca, the startup that makes data privacy compliance simple, scalable and complete. Learn more about the company, the tech they’re using to build their awesome product, meet the team, take a sneak peek into their culture and see for yourself why you should work with them.

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Ethyca is a New York based startup that provides infrastructure & tools to automate user data privacy management. The company is on a mission to empower every internet user to take control of their data. It's a big task, but their product allows businesses to fulfil user privacy rights rapidly and efficiently. They make it simple to process complex data that moves to databases and other software products, offering internet users better control of their personal information in a world with increasing regulations.

As their founder, Cilian Kieran, explains (listen to the full speech here):

#####“We are a technology platform that is designed to create trust in data-driven systems. We try to automate as much of data privacy compliance, so that Engineers, Product and Data teams don’t have to think about it. We want to remove the friction in CI/CD for data privacy.”

Ethyca a small company of 16 people (2020) that have great ambitions to grow and also significant funding ($20m) from high-profile names and firms such as Abstract Ventures and Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder.

Quite an impressive description till now, but what makes Ethyca a great place to work?

Product

Data privacy is one of the most pressing problems facing users and the business community today. Ethyca’s product automates the discovery, mapping, and retrieval of data throughout a business ecosystem. This in turn lets end users easily exercise fundamental privacy rights like the right to access, edit, and erasure. The ultimate result is that businesses of any size are able to offer users a world-class standard of privacy protection that is simply impossible without Ethyca’s platform.

Data privacy is a huge modern-day problem and it is something that day by day, more and more people are aware and concerned about. Ethyca have developed a highly technical and complex product that is solving a real modern-day issue of how our data is stored. A lot of this starts in the development cycle and Ethyca provides the infrastructure to allow other companies to stay compliant with how they manage their user data.

Tech Stack

• Java
• Scala
• Python
• React
• Quartz
• Terraform
• ANTLR
• Various SQL Flavors (AWS RDS)

Team

They are a passionate and excited team of problem-solvers (that also happen to be music lovers, exercise enthusiasts, PC and console gamers, and wine aficionados). Ethyca boasts a team of highly experienced engineers that you will get to know during the interview process. They are scaling the team aggressively at the moment so it is a perfect time to join and be an early stage team member.

Check out the roles they’re hiring for!

Culture

They still are a young, fast-growing company, so anyone new joining will have a direct impact on how their team grows and the engineering culture that they are fostering. Their environment provides responsibility, freedom and a great opportunity to grow as every team member gets to contribute beyond their specialization.

Joining Ethyca is an opportunity to redefine the world’s relationship with data-driven systems and return trust to the internet again. . You will work on complex issues and have a great room to grow yourself personally and professionally. Still not sure? Read more about Cillian’s vision here.

All their jobs are available here, don’t miss out!