Data Engineer

Firstup

92d • $100,000 - $140,000

About The Position

At Firstup, our mission is to improve the employee experience at every moment that matters, large and small. As the communication pipeline for the world's workforce, we now serve 40 of the Fortune 100 companies, reaching and connecting more than 17 million employees daily. Our employees are experts in the employee experience, workforce communications and technology. Joining Firstup means joining a movement to make work better for every worker. As the world’s first intelligent communication platform, Firstup meaningfully engages employees at every moment from hire to retire, and delivers engagement insights to help companies support, promote and retain their talent. Our movement has taken root and is evident in our world-class customer base. Now we need your help. Ready to make a difference in the world?

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with large-scale data and query optimization techniques.
• Problem solver with solid communication skills.
• Experience with ETL to data warehouse systems.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: Redshift, GCP BigQuery, EC2, RDS, Aurora Postgres.
• Proficient in SQL and solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding NoSQL and RDBMS.
• Expertise in multiple scripting languages; Python and Ruby.
• Knowledge of cloud, distributed systems, and stream-processing systems.
• Empathy for your customers and colleagues.
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support systems that reliably provide interactive query performance on large amounts of multi-modal data.
• Collect, parse, analyze, and visualize large sets of data.
• Improve systems that handle scale.
• Identify opportunities and advocate for better performance of software and processes across teams.
• Troubleshoot and improve the infrastructure required for extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a variety of data sources using SQL and AWS 'big data' technologies.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building our product.

Benefits

• Excellent PTO program
• Great health benefits
• Casual and friendly environment
• Remote work
• Leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees