Tech Lead - Data Engineering

Basis AI•New York, NY

50d•$100,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Tech Lead on the Data Engineering team, you'll own the technical vision for how agents interact with data from other systems. You'll design solid architectures, make trade-offs clear, and teach others how to think about distributed systems effectively. You'll ensure consistency across runtime, data, and schema layers so our systems scale predictably and stay understandable as we grow. You'll lead by example through your code, design reviews, and documented decisions, making sure the platform is both powerful and elegantly simple.

Responsibilities

Build and standardize our data platform
Design data pipelines that ingest, validate, and transform accounting data into clean, reliable datasets.
Define schemas and data contracts that balance flexibility with correctness.
Build validation, lineage tracking, and drift detection into every pipeline.
Create interfaces that make data discoverable, computable, and observable throughout the system.
Model the domain as a system
Translate accounting concepts into well-structured ontologies: entities, relationships, and rules.
Create abstractions that help AI systems reason safely about real-world constraints.
Design for clarity: make complex workflows understandable through schema, code, and documentation.
Lead through clarity and technical excellence
Own the architectural vision for your area and keep it consistent over time.
Run effective design reviews that challenge assumptions and drive alignment.
Mentor engineers on how to think about systems: from load testing to schema design to observability patterns.
Simplify aggressively by removing unnecessary complexity and maintaining clean, stable abstractions.