Senior Software Engineer, Data

Afresh

2d • $156,000 - $211,000

About The Position

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in scaling and improving how we integrate and process customer data. You will design and implement ETLs that reliably process large volumes of customer-provided data and build tools/improve the platform to make customer integrations faster, more accurate, and more scalable. You’ll also contribute to the development of new features that support our expanding product lines. Your work will have a direct and visible impact on our ability to onboard customers more easily and quickly and power our machine learning grocery solution.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and maintaining ETLs that process large-scale datasets.
• Proficiency with Python, PySpark, SQL, and experience working on platforms/tools like Databricks, Snowflake, or DBT.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with ambiguous or incomplete requirements to deliver concrete, impactful solutions.
• A focus on practical outcomes—you're skilled at balancing technical rigor with the need to get things done.
• Experience working directly with complex, unclean datasets and finding innovative ways to process and analyze them.
• A knack for identifying areas where tooling or automation can simplify workflows and reduce manual effort.
• Excellent communication skills—you’re able to explain your ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven leadership in technical projects, with a willingness to mentor and help others grow.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and frameworks that streamline customer integrations, enabling faster onboarding and better handling of customer data.
• Create robust ETLs in PySpark and DBT to process billions of records from customer datasets, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, and ready for downstream use.
• Investigate and implement new technologies into the data platform, focusing on practical solutions that address current pain points and anticipate future needs.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to design and deliver data solutions for new products and features.
• Identify and implement optimizations to improve ETL runtime and data processing scalability, reducing the time and effort required for integrations.
• Solve real-world data quality challenges by working directly with messy, incomplete, or inconsistent customer data to extract the signal we need.
• Support team members by mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and providing clear, actionable feedback.

Benefits

• Join a mission-driven company reducing millions of pounds of food waste in grocery stores per year.
• Work on challenging, real-world problems that have a direct impact on our customers.
• Be part of a collaborative, supportive team where your ideas are valued and acted on.
• Use cutting-edge tools and platforms to solve meaningful data challenges.

What This Job Offers

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