Data Engineer Co-Op

DICK'S Sporting Goods

3d • Remote

About The Position

Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates. OVERVIEW: About GameChanger: GameChanger is the #1-rated youth sports app offering free sports team management, free live streaming, and free scorekeeping for youth sports coaches and fans. We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports. So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today. The Position You will sit on the Data Engineering Team, which develops data pipeline frameworks, improve our modern data platform, and support the teams that rely on it. You'll work with teams across the company to understand their needs and build systems to unlock operational efficiencies or analytic insights. Our solutions benefit everyone including Analysts, Product Managers, Marketers, Developers, Executives, Coaches, Players, and Parents! This co-op is a hands-on learning opportunity: you'll contribute to meaningful projects, gain exposure to modern data tools, and build skills to set you up for a career in data engineering.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or a related field.
• You've completed at least 3 years of your degree or have at least 1 prior related co-op/internship experience.
• Excited to learn how data powers analytics and guides decisions at a data-driven company.
• Some familiarity with functional/object-oriented programming (preferably Python), SQL, databases and data warehouses.
• Enjoy writing well documented concise code.
• A strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with others to solve complex problems efficiently.
• Experience in version control tools ( e.g. - Git, Bitbucket)

Responsibilities

• Help develop and maintain data pipelines and systems that power analytics and operations across the organization.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle — from gathering requirements and planning to implementation, reviewing, testing and release.
• Improve existing systems' performance, observability, reliability, and scalability.
• Be an active member of an Agile team, participating in sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives.
• Learn how to use industry-standard tools such as Airflow, Docker, AWS, Kafka, DBT, and Snowflake.
• Work with other data engineers on your team and engineers on other teams to deliver impactful data products.

Benefits

• Hands-on experience working on real data engineering projects.
• Exposure to modern tools, platforms, and best practices in data engineering.
• The chance to make a tangible impact—your work will be used by teams across the company.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern