Sr. Data & Software Engineer

Ovative Group • Minneapolis, MN

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ovative Group is seeking a Sr. Data & Software Engineer to join their product and engineering development team. This role involves taking a leadership position within a cross-functional team responsible for creating, optimizing, and maintaining scalable software and data solutions. The engineer will work closely with internal and client stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle, leveraging AI-assisted development tools, and mentoring junior team members. The company specializes in enterprise-level media measurement and optimization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant data & software engineering development experience
• Highly proficient in SQL, Python, command-line tools, and ETL/ELT pipelines for large datasets, including AI and analytics use cases
• Experienced with cloud platforms and modern AI concepts/tools, such as GCP, AWS, AI/ML APIs, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval
• Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and a track record of knowledge-sharing and mentoring junior team members
• Direct experience working with business users and clients to understand goals and gather requirements

Nice To Haves

• Experience with iterative development and Agile best practices, including experience working within SAFe or similar scaled frameworks.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks or APIs (e.g., OpenAI, HuggingFace, LangChain, or similar) and their practical applications in an engineering context.
• Proficient working with data warehouses and big data tools (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks) for large-scale data processing.
• Experience working with APIs for data retrieval and integration across multiple data sources.
• Experience building and deploying tools, agents, or workflows that orchestrate LLM calls in a production or near-production context.
• Experience working with marketing, analytics and customer data in the context of data engineering or pipeline development.
• Experience creating and owning data/table architecture for a project or product area.
• Experience integrating data models within software and deploying data pipelines in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of robust software solutions that meet business and technical goals.
• Lead effort in identifying opportunities for automation with a focus on the operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Engage directly with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand their business goals, gather requirements, and translate into detailed, actionable technical requirements.
• Research, write and edit documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solutions that scale.
• Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates through collaboration and by sharing your expertise.
• Ensure adherence to and advancement of software and product engineering best practices, including code quality, documentation, testing, security, deployment, and performance.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies, tools, and frameworks to optimize the software development process.
• Troubleshoot complex software issues and provide effective solutions.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and project direction.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning to keep your team current with emerging technology and software engineering trends.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC and DevOps best practices, maintaining high standards of quality and security across all phases of development.
• Leverage and champion AI-assisted development tools and practices across the team to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and establish effective patterns for responsible AI-assisted development.

Benefits

• Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI
• Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams
• Generous paid vacation policy
• 401k match program
• Top-notch health insurance options, inclusive of same sex partners
• Family formation benefits including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs
• Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan
• Sabbatical program
• Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
• Shenanigan’s Day

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed