Data Engineer

Data Engineer

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*When I Work is a remote first company.  We are open to hiring candidates in the continental US and Ontario, Canada. If an onsite location is important to you in your search, you are welcome to work from our Minneapolis HQ once our offices re-open.  

Who We Are

We help hourly teams get shift done. 

At When I Work, everything we do starts with a mission to make shift work awesome. We deliver on that mission by making every piece of hourly workforce management - scheduling, time tracking, shift trading, team messaging, and more - easy and straightforward for managers and employees alike. 

The Data Science and Engineering team at When I Work is a group of inquisitive and driven individuals who love solving problems using data. We have built a best-in-class data environment and fuel insights throughout the organization on our product and customers. We work collaboratively together, invest in our processes and tooling, and move slow to move fast. We focus on projects that will have a big impact on the company and work to enable anyone to be a savvy data user.

What You’ll Do 

Over the last few years we have been building out a best-in-class data environment that we’ve used to transform When I Work into a data-driven company. You will be a key contributor in continuing to grow and mature this environment as well as develop and sustain data projects that will have significant impact on our company and our users.

  • Develop and manage ETLs and data pipelines
  • Create data products for consumption by internal When I Work team members
  • Be part of a team that owns all aspects of its service delivery -- from cloud infrastructure, to application code, to operations
  • Build upon and refine an environment in which business stakeholders are able to self-serve their own answers

Our Technology Soup

We use a lot of different technologies to get the job done, and each member of our team brings their own mix of technology experience. If you have familiarity with even a few of these (or equivalents), you could make a valuable contribution: Python, Notebooks, Git, Gitlab, GitHub, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Presto, Kafka, SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, NoSQL, Terraform, Hubspot, lots of AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Go, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, Elasticache, VPC CloudFront, Athena, EMR, CloudSearch, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Data Pipeline)

Who You Are

You are a programmer who is excited by data and its endless possible use cases. Someone that enjoys creating tools and infrastructure to empower your peers. Collaboration and teamwork are a must, but you also have the ability to work independently when needed to get things done. Above all, you are driven to learn and a motivated problem solver who wants to help tackle the new and interesting challenges that we encounter as a fast-growing startup.

Experience and Skills Needed

  • You have strong programming fundamentals
  • You are comfortable with agile software processes
  • You have experience with multiple programming languages (Python, SQL, etc.)
  • Comfortable working with APIs/Webhooks
  • You have solid understanding of structured and unstructured data
  • You have familiarity with cloud computing environments and infrastructure
  • You are a proponent of DevOps and enthusiastic about DataOps
  • You practice empathy and kindness, and you look to help others

What Would Be Awesome To Have

  • Advanced Python and data package (Numpy, Pandas, etc.) skills
  • Experience integrating data into third party tools like Hubspot, Zendesk, Vero, etc.

What’s In It For You

  • Professional development allowance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Medical benefits - employee premiums paid 100% by When I Work
  • Dental benefits- employee premiums paid 100% by When I Work
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Flexible work environment
  • 401K Match
  • Remote first culture including home office set-up stipend and ongoing telecommuter stipend
  • Casual dress code
  • Dynamic and dedicated team

 

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