Data Engineer

Data Engineer

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Snapcommerce is a high growth company that sits at the intersection of mobile commerce and fintech. Our flagship product Snaptravel allows millions of users around the world to book their travel over messaging. We are currently in the scale-up phase of the company with plans to grow from ~100 employees to ~300+ employees as fast as possible while maintaining the competitive advantages and culture of being a startup

With a high-performing team of world class leaders, Snapcommerce thrives on tackling complex problems within AI, E-commerce, and Conversational Design to push the boundaries of the value we can add to our user’s lives!

At Snapcommerce, we pride ourselves on the performance-driven environment we’ve created for our team to prosper and excel. Our values are rooted in making data driven-decisions and risk-taking actions that add value to both the user and the company. 

Please note that although this position at Snapcommerce is remote friendly, candidates must be located and authorized to work in the US/Canada as a precondition of employment. Snapcommerce does not sponsor applicants for work visas.


We are looking for a Data Engineer with 2+ years of experience to join our growing Engineering team! As a Data Engineer at Snapcommerce, you will be responsible for building highly reliable and scalable data platforms and pipelines You will have full control over ensuring the accuracy and integrity of all data, and will build pipelines, tools and predictive models to help drive insights and decisions in our Product and Growth teams! In this role you will have the opportunity to build scalable and highly available data pipelines using bleeding-edge tech and tools in one of Toronto’s fastest-growing Data teams, with a focus on thinking big and moving quickly.

Responsibilities:

    • Help to evolve and scale our data platform, with an eye towards growth of our business and reliability of our data
    • Help productionize machine learning models
    • Work closely with the analytics and business intelligence teams, as well as other stakeholders from finance, sales, marketing, and product, to understand the data needs of the business and produce processes that enable a better product and support growth decision-making
    • Generate architecture recommendations and the ability to implement them
    • Improve, manage, and teach standards for code maintainability and performance in code submitted and reviewed
    • Help evolve our CI/CD strategy for our ELT jobs and pipelines

Our Tech:

    • We use an SOA architecture powered by many micro-services, including the bot platform, the NLP model and the real-time pricing and recommendation engine
    • Data pipeline tools including Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Looker 
    • We have a distributed ELT infrastructure hosted using Docker and AWS

Skills & Qualifications:

    • You have at least 2 years+ of software/data engineering experience, at least 1 of which has been in a Data Engineering role
    • You learn quickly, regardless of the languages and technologies used
    • You always strive to build the minimally viable product before over-engineering
    • You have experience building scalable data pipelines and powerful reporting tools
    • You love solving complex problems with logical, well-architected solutions
    • You are well-versed in data modelling and have experience building distributed systems
    • Clear communicator who can gather technical requirements and explain technical intricacies
    • Predictive modelling and machine learning experience is a strong plus

The Perks:

    • Remote-first culture - work from home and deck out your workspace with our spending account
    • Build something that matters, and contribute to building a product used by millions of  users worldwide
    • Benefit from equity stock options, a comprehensive benefits package with flexible Health Spending Account, and more
    • We work flexible schedules to allow for optimal work-life balance. As you start to grow your family, we have a generous Parental Leave Policy to support you as well!
    • In addition to collaborating with top global talent on lots of interesting projects, you'll also have fun working in a diverse, inclusive environment with constant support from both peers and leaders


We Believe in Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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