Data Engineer/Technical Co-Founder

Salary Unpaid
Equity To be negotiated

We’re an early-stage team/stealth start-up working with GORILLA creating an AI platform for press and media — building smarter ways for companies to reach the right journalists and share their stories with the world.

You’ll join an existing founding team of two (one technical and one sales/marketing). We’re currently part of a U.S. accelerator, our product design is complete, and we’re preparing for beta. Early feedback has been strong, and we’re already in talks with angels and a pipeline of over 100 micro-VC and seed investors. We’re pushing hard to secure funding and bring this product to market.


About the Role

We’re looking for a data engineer to join as a technical co-founder and build a greenfield ETL pipeline for our media-contact database.


You’ll:

  • Ingest existing journalist and media-contact data via APIs

  • Enrich and link profiles with contextual data from sources like X/Twitter, TheOrg, and NewsAPI

  • Summarize each journalist’s coverage to enable precise targeting

  • Build a discovery engine to identify and profile new journalists

  • Ensure data governance and GDPR compliance


Press outreach and profile analysis are handled by an existing co-founder — your focus will be on the core data infrastructure.


Who You Are

  • You have a relevant technical background in data engineering, APIs, or machine learning.

  • You’re interested in joining a startup where autonomy, experimentation, and ownership matter.

  • You’re a strong communicator with solid English skills.

  • You’re ambitious, reliable, and have a strong sense of ethics.

  • You want to build something real — not just code, but a company.


We’re a Swedish/Danish-based team but open to candidates anywhere in the world. We’re currently remote, everyone is moonlighting, but we’re focused and moving fast.


If you want to be part of a small, global team shaping the future of how stories reach the world, we’d love to hear from you.

For more information or questions please contact us at alexsabour@gmail.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

Equity package
Equity package

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Work life balance
Work life balance

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Central office
Central office

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Working at
GORILLA AGENCY

BOLD. disruptive. AMBITIOUS. MEMORABLE. GORILLA AGENCY is an internationally recognized award winning creative agency with over 100+ awards, honors and nominations at 20+ award programs globally. We focus on communicating complex messages, social good and impact campaigns. Creativity can change the world. We know because we've done it. We want to bridge the gap between profit and purpose, and help facilitate a positive change through advertising. We work with brands and organisations that want to facilitate change. Those that aren't afraid of using their voice and engage in tough conversations. Our campaigns have questioned the the status quo, challenged what's possible for an agency to do and was founded on the principle that creating positive change is more important than making profit.

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