Senior Software Engineer- Data/ Analytics

Kipsu•Minneapolis, MN

63d•$90,000 - $130,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on data and analytics at Kipsu, you'll work with a wide range of tools to ensure data quality and deliver reliable insights to stakeholders both inside and outside the company. In this role, you'll use technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, REST APIs, Terraform, and AWS services such as Redshift, EventBridge, Lambda, DMS, and AppFlow. You'll partner closely with product and executives, giving you the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on Kipsu's business every day. Along the way, you'll have guidance and support as you help us elevate our data and analytics practice.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on data and analytics
Specific experience with most or all our data and analytics stack - MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Redshift, Jaspersoft
Demonstrated experience with ETL/ELT work
A passion for data and making data work with Business Intelligence tools such as Jaspersoft
A desire not just to work within the existing status quo, but rather a true drive to be a "builder" and shape a modern data and analytics stack that is critical to our business
A deliberate delivery mindset and attention to detail
An ability to partner with client-facing teammates to help create insights out of information
Critical thinking and problem solving
Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you've run into some obstacles along the way

Responsibilities

Dive into data challenges - from building pipelines to solving one-off business puzzles with ad hoc queries and statistical data analysis
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their goals and turn them into technical solutions
Write complex but fast-executing SQL against a variety of RDBM systems to help answer critical business questions
Test, validate, and document your work so our insights stay reliable and trustworthy
Translate complex data into reports that make sense to non-technical humans
Design and maintain ETL/ELT processes that keep our data warehouse humming
Help design, build, and test an analytics dashboard for our customers
Keep our data strategy sharp by contributing to data warehouse planning, data governance, and best practices
Advocate for and demonstrate best practices in data design, data engineering, data transformation, data warehousing, data analytics
Spot opportunities to improve processes and recommend data-driven improvements

Benefits

We're a solid, stable company, and we enthusiastically embrace our founding startup spirit- everyone pitching in and working to achieve the same goals
Our culture- We have a team of highly motivated colleagues who are all in it together. We all succeed as one, and we all learn from our mistakes holding our interdependence in high regard
Our unique philosophy- we bootstrapped this company ourselves and are in it for the long term. There is a distinct sense of purpose and ownership at Kipsu as we do things on our own terms
Remarkable growth- with nearly a decade of advancement, we continue to accelerate. It's an exciting time to be here.
Unity- Everyone here is committed to the same mission. Our core values are not platitudes but our pact. We believe in the best in each other while always reaching to be better
Transparency- Our leadership gets into the details. We all gather for weekly space to discover how each team is doing so that we have a full understanding of the business and think like a CEO
Trust- Our team members are given the trust and license to excel at their jobs, and are supported along the way to continuously grow
Mentorship - We all have more to learn and something to teach. The lessons are beyond technical. We celebrate our busy hive of shared growth
Respect- Our success and future as an industry leader depend on actionable commitment to cultivating a diverse and equitable team. Everyone here has a voice that is heard and respected. We seek open and honest conversation on our journey to be active stewards of our shared communities
Purpose- Everyone here is closely connected to the result of their work. Every day our team gets to see the impact of what they do enhancing the value of our customers' work in their own professions. Our goals are explicitly tethered to our mission of building relationships