Back End Engineer - Data

Bilt • New York, NY

5h

About The Position

As a Back End Engineer - Data at Bilt, you'll join a renowned team that is transforming the future of renting. You will play a key role in driving business growth by building our data platform foundation, with an emphasis on data infrastructure, ingestion, real-time processing, and serving, while coaching and mentoring junior resources, collaborating with other team members, and working with stakeholders.

You will also drive best practices, ensure the technical feasibility of integrations, and optimize the application for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability. You will take significant ownership of our GCP environment, including PostgreSQL application databases, our BigQuery data warehouse, and a self-hosted Materialize instance for streaming analytics, and be responsible for the movement and transformation of data across these systems. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of developing robust infrastructure, building scalable pipelines, and establishing key stakeholder relationships. You will work directly with Bilt's leadership as a key technical contributor, driving growth and strategy.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Systems thinker who designs architectures balancing performance, cost, and maintainability
• Demonstrable experience in Java, SQL, and/or Python development
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS
• Experience with technologies such as: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Materialize, GCP (Beam/Dataflow, Datastream, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes), dbt, Airflow/Composer, Terraform, Fivetran, Census
• Experience with lambda/kappa architectures for pipelining and medallion architecture for warehouses
• Experience with file transfer services (SFTP) in AWS or GCP and building pipelines that push/pull files to/from cloud storage
• Great interpersonal skills and a team player who can partner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A strong bias towards being AI-forward, leveraging AI coding assistants and MCP servers to automate processes and create leverage for the business
• A burning desire to win and reach overall company goals
• Flexibility - we are disrupting an industry, so changes to traditional processes should be expected

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the start-up world is preferred

Responsibilities

• Investigate and utilize Google Cloud Platform services to continuously improve application architecture
• Propose and enhance automation initiatives related to infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring and alerting
• Build and scale data infrastructure supporting batch and real-time processing systems across BigQuery, Materialize, PostgreSQL, and cloud storage
• Design and implement robust data pipelines from source databases into our warehouse, streaming layers, and downstream applications using CDC, Kafka/Pub/Sub, Spark, and other ELT / reverse ETL tools
• Own data platform operations including infrastructure provisioning (Kubernetes, Compute Engine), CI/CD for data systems, and comprehensive monitoring/alerting frameworks
• Ensure data quality and governance by building automated validation, testing, and observability tools while maintaining data lineage, metadata, and security controls
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
• Become a foundational member of our team, working alongside the VP, Data and CTO

Benefits

• Compensation - We offer a competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program
• Health insurance for you (& your loved ones) from day one - Enjoy a One Medical Membership, wellness stipends, family programs and more, on us. We’ve got you and your family covered from day one.
• 401k plan with a match - Retirement may feel more like a pipe dream than a reality but we’re here to help you get there.
• Commuter FSAs - We believe the best ideas come from being together in one place. We just don’t think getting there should be so expensive.
• UNLIMITED PTO - Because we believe that working hard shouldn’t mean always working. Take time for you as often as you need it.
• Exclusive Employee only Bilt Points - We give our employees unique opportunities to earn points throughout their time at Bilt.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed