Backend Data Engineer (Latin America, fully remote)

Virtasant

5d • Remote

About The Position

Our client is a US company that specializes in online real estate marketplaces, making a difference in the way people buy and sell their homes.
For them, we’re looking for a Backend Data Engineer to build data pipelines and support our client's engineering team across their two real estate software platforms. You need to be based in Latin America.
In this role, you’ll be designing pipelines and data stores to manage terabytes of real estate data. This role will allow you to define and refine the overall data strategy for a growing tech company.
Location - Latin America
Working hours - 8 hours a day, Mon-Fri, with an overlap with US Central Time 10 AM - 4 PM
Contract duration - 6 months to start, with indefinite 6-month extensions from there onward.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of experience working as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer
• Expert-level understanding of SQL-based database design and usage
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one programming language (Ideally Python, but PHP or JavaScript could work too)
• Professional experience in high-volume ETL systems.
• Effective communication with engineering peers, project managers, and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Analytics, or a related field
• Hands-on experience building data solutions in at least one public cloud environment. We use AWS.
• Experience using Python or dbt in a data role
• Experience with a Business Intelligence tool like Tableau, Qlik, or Amazon QuickSight.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain our client's data pipelines and data warehouses for user-facing features, analytics, and aiding business intelligence.
• Develop ETL ecosystem tools using tools like Python, External APIs, Airbyte, Snowflake, dbt, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Amazon S3.
• Define automated solutions to solve complex problems and better understand our clients' data, users, and market.
• Assist the overall engineering team with database design and data flows
• Develop engineering best practices, documentation, and process flows that facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer.

Benefits

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
• Work hours - 8 hours, with US Central time overlap (10 AM - 4 PM)
• Independent contractor agreement (after the first 6-month trial, it's a long-term, no-end-date contract)
• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees