About the position
As a Senior Data Engineer at Techstars, you will play a crucial role in building innovative software solutions for entrepreneurs globally. Your responsibilities will include developing backend streaming data pipelines, integrating with third-party SaaS applications, creating complex analytics features, and building data APIs for the platform. Additionally, you will contribute to architecture and solution design, optimize solution performance and reliability, and help Techstars expand its reach to support more entrepreneurs. This role requires a passion for data solutions, experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, expertise in ETL and data pipelines, and proficiency in developing robust APIs. Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential, along with a desire to continuously improve the quality of products and solutions delivered.
Responsibilities
- Build backend streaming data pipelines, integrations with third party SaaS applications, complex analytics features, and app facing platform data APIs
- Participate in architecture and solution design and help optimize solution performance and reliability
- Build and deploy high-quality data ingest, cleansing, analytics, integrations, and API solutions
- Ensure that all data and software solutions are secure, performant, reliable, observable, and testable
- Work collaboratively with team members in an agile development environment
- Continuously improve the quality of the products and solutions delivered
- Develop robust APIs
- Train machine learning models to predict quality outcomes using frameworks like Scikit
- Work with a variety of relational and non-relational database systems
- Utilize cloud-based data visualization technologies
- Develop with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Have a passion for building data solutions with a deep appreciation for dev/ops
- Have experience working with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Have experience in financial/investment data (a plus)
- Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Desire to learn and teach
Requirements
- Senior Data Engineer position
- Location: Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York - hybrid
- Build backend streaming data pipelines, integrations with third party SaaS applications, complex analytics features, and app facing platform data APIs
- Participate in architecture and solution design
- Optimize solution performance and reliability
- Help Techstars attract more founders and scale the Techstars footprint
- Build and deploy high-quality data ingest, cleansing, analytics, integrations, and API solutions
- Ensure data and software solutions are secure, performant, reliable, observable, and testable
- Work collaboratively in an agile environment
- Continuously improve the quality of products and solutions delivered
- Passion for building data solutions with a deep appreciation for dev/ops
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Data engineering experience with ETL, streaming, data pipelines, and cleansing
- Experience developing robust APIs
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Desire to learn and teach
- Experience training machine learning models using frameworks like Scikit
- Diverse experience with languages (SQL, Python, Node, Scala)
- Experience with relational and non-relational database systems (Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Prometheus)
- Experience with cloud-based data visualization technologies (Tableau, Domo, Airtable)
- Experience in financial/investment data is a plus
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Compensation: $135,000 - $155,000 with 10% bonus
Benefits
- Compensation: $135,000 - $155,000 with 10% bonus
- Diverse experience with languages (ie. SQL, Python, Node, Scala)
- Experience working with a variety of relational and non-relational database systems (ie Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Prometheus)
- Experience with cloud based data visualization technologies (ie. Tableau, Domo, Airtable)
- Experience in financial/investment data is a plus
- Experience developing with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
- Affirmative action, equal opportunity employer
- E-Verify participation for work authorization verification