Data Engineer - Spekit : Job Details

Your impact We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer committed to high standards of excellence to help us continue to build world class products for our customers! Spekit is an engineering and product-focused company. As our Data Engineer, you'll provide our team with real-timedata-driven business intelligence, support data-powered product features like smart content creation & recommendations, and collaborate with the broader engineering org on architectural design and scalable solutions. However, we're not simply looking for an expert Data Engineer; The successful candidate will thrive at the intersection of technical ability and business savvy. More than just crunching numbers, you'll transform data into a strategic business asset. You'll anticipate questions across departments, influence data-driven decisions, and challenge assumptions to unlock growth potential. Additionally, you'll get a chance to learn and thrive amongst other extremely talented engineers, while learning and working with a diverse team based in the US, India, Mexico and Pakistan, embracing challenges leading to growth and tapping into new opportunities that will shape the future of learning in the workplace. Not to mention you'll get to work with leaders like Mike Falanga, Paul Hepworth, and Yasir Shafi who are not only industry experts, but incredible coaches and mentors. If you're a do-er who thrives in a fast paced environment and who wants to leverage their expertise to make real, measurable impacts on the future of an organization, we want to hear from you! Technical Qualifications

• You have a passion for high data quality analysis and data science work
• You start with the most important questions we should be asking and are both interested and able to make value judgements, drive proactive analysis and research, and connect data to business outcomes
• You have experience running experiments and using various types of models to answer questions with various amounts of data quickly with maximum confidence
• You can demonstrate expertise in the design and development of dashboards, reports, and visualizations using a variety of business intelligence applications
• You can build and maintain an accessible and user-friendly data infrastructure that empowers other teams like marketing, sales, and product development to make data-driven decisions
• You have at least 5+ years experience in a data discipline which has allowed you to hone your technical skills in the following areas: SQL and distributed system optimization (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hadoop, Hive)Data analysis (e.g. Python, R, Scala, Superset, and Tableau)ETL frameworks (e.g. dbt, Airflow)
• You can demonstrate excellent working knowledge of data warehousing and data modeling with a strong grasp of different data schemas
• You have a solid grasp of software engineering best practices around testing, refactoring, and writing well structured code that has lower maintenance costs and fewer defects
• Ideally, you've done database administration (tuning of tables, indices, shards, etc.) and you know the Django ORM well enough to help us write better queries
• Familiarity with modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, such as classification, clustering, optimization
• You can demonstrate an understanding of large-scale, high-performance data processing systems
• You have familiarity with logging to support our data flow
• You enjoy presenting your data research to a wide variety of stakeholders, in a way that is clear and digestible
• You enjoy working in an Agile development environment and taking initiative in improving systems both for our teams as well as users
• You have a Graduate or Undergraduate degree in Math, Statistics, Engineering, or similar technical related field

Qualities we're looking for in you

• Problem solver: You're determined to find the simplest solution, even if that solution is hard work. You are not shy about diving into complex problems. If you don't know the answer, you seek others out with domain knowledge so that you can learn and make an impact
• Influence: You can translate complex data into clear and actionable insights can influence how different teams understand and respond to market trends, customer behavior, and operational metrics
• Ambiguity: You can take a vague request and find the answers necessary to come up with a solution. You find the unknowns and work in a way to flush them out as soon as possible. You use small iterations and copious amounts of feedback to make sure you are on the right track.
• Technical excellence: You are proud of the work you merge to production. You stand behind the pull requests you approve. Every line of code has a purpose. We solve today's problems today, and have the confidence and ability to solve tomorrow's problems tomorrow. You are not your code. You seek criticism and engage in discussion because you want to be better
• Product-based mindset: We think long-term with the product vision in mind. We empathize with the customer - whether that customer is an end user, another team, a 3rd party integrator, or Spekit's own employees. You have a desire to develop a product that end users LOVE to use on a day to day basis!

Technologies we embrace

• Backend - Python (+ Django / Django-Rest), PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Linuxdbt, Explo, Algolia, Pinecone, OpenAI
• Frontend - NodeJS, React, Typescript

$120,000 - $130,000 a yearSalary offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and expertise