About Varsity Tutors:

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, is the leading direct-to-consumer, curated gig economy platform for live online learning benefiting both learners and experts. We have built a comprehensive online learning destination that enables the delivery of scaled high-quality live expertise for learners of all ages across thousands of subjects and multiple learning formats through the application of technology and AI. We've raised $107M million in venture capital from TCV, Learn Capital, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We also recently announced that Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors, plans to go public via a SPAC with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities later this year, with a $1.7 billion market valuation.

We succeed thanks to a diverse mix of talented people who want to come, to stay, and do their best work. If you love learning, technology, and making a true impact, you’re going to love working here!

About the Job

Note: Please feel comfortable applying, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position. We’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. Everyone can grow at Varsity Tutors.  We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups and people of diverse backgrounds to apply. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day! 

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer that knows how to operate a modern data pipeline as well as a traditional data warehouse built on modern cloud technologies. This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing team and drive the data platform supporting our applications and analytics systems. 

This position is a full-time remote opportunity! (We've been remote friendly for years and that isn't going away).

In this position, you will…

• Administer our Redshift based data warehouse
• Gather reporting requirements from business partners and ensure data availability and performance
• Create and maintain processes feeding data into and from Redshift
• Build out data warehouse and data lake capabilities

Qualifications: 

Required Skills

• Relational DBMS such as MySQL/MS Sql/Oracle/PostgreSQL
• Logical and physical database modeling
• SQL query design, optimization
• Programming languages: Python/Go/Ruby/Java
• Source code management: git/scm/mercurial/subversion
• Big Data: Redshift/BigQuery/Hadoop/Spark

Nice to have

• AWS Services: Redshift, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis
• Containerization: Docker or Vagrant
• Configuration: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack
• NoSql: DynamoDb, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, HBase, or Cosmos

Benefits/Culture:

• Once in a lifetime opportunity to help revolutionize how the world learns!
• Fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback rich culture
• Remote friendly
• Hackfest!
• Work-life balance 
• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401k Company Matching Plan
• Flexible PTO plus a floating holiday (for your birthday!)
• Paid VTO ("Volunteer Time Off" to do community service/charity work)
• 52 hours of Free Learning Sessions per year for you or immediate families members and free access to our Virtual School Day classes and School@Home program
• Collaborative, and team-oriented work environment
• Try a free trial of our Live Learning Platform here: https://www.varsitytutors.com/freetrial

Varsity Tutors is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. (INDHP)