Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee junior members of the data engineering team, including mentoring, planning, and evaluating their work.

• Develop and sustain optimal data pipeline architecture.

• Assemble large and intricate data sets that fulfill both functional and non-functional business requirements.

• Enhance the machine learning platform by designing tools that integrate with cloud services and the existing codebase.

• Construct infrastructure for extracting, transforming, and loading data from diverse sources utilizing SQL, Python, and AWS.

• Create analytics tools that deliver actionable insights into critical business performance metrics.

• Address the needs of the analytics team.

• Develop data-handling tools for members of the analytics and data science teams.

• Collaborate with the Development team to create solutions that span multiple teams.

• Optimize or redesign the company's data architecture for next-generation products and data initiatives.

• Mentor and support junior team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a Data Engineer position.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative discipline.

• Proficient in SQL with extensive experience using relational databases, including Postgres and MySQL.

• Skilled in SQL query creation.

• Familiarity with a variety of databases.

• Proven experience in constructing data pipelines, architectures, and datasets from raw, loosely structured data.

• Background in test-driven design and results for repeatable and maintainable processes and tools.

• Experience in developing processes that support data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependencies, and workload management.

• Practical knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data storage solutions.

• Strong project management and organizational capabilities.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, rapidly changing environment.

• Competence in managing multiple projects simultaneously and understanding their implications within a broader system.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic setting.

• Experience supervising junior engineers and guiding a team through project planning, execution, and quality assurance.

• Proficiency in object-oriented design using Python.

• Familiarity with data pipeline and workflow management tools.

• Experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, RDS, Redshift, Glue, and S3.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Flexible, remote working options.

• Enjoyable, fast-paced work environment.

• Dynamic start-up culture.

• Opportunity to make an immediate impact in a growth-oriented company.

• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city.