Senior Data Engineer
Job description
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Company: The Linktree Story
Linktree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new category in tech. Linktree is the identity layer of the internet, allowing users to curate a singular destination housing what’s most important to them, in real time.
With a user base of 15M+, Linktree helps brands, influencers, small businesses, activists and everyday creators carve out their place and reach their full potential online. The world’s biggest influencers and creators from Selena Gomez to Pharrell Williams, as well as big brands like HBO and Facebook are using Linktree to connect their followers to their entire online ecosystem.
The platform averages 30,000 daily sign ups and has over half a billion visits to Linktrees each month. In the past 12 months, Linktree has gained phenomenal momentum growing its user base by 3x with no signs of slowing down.
In March 2021, we raised $45 million in Series B funding. The funding will be used to expand headcount globally, develop product features and go towards making Linktree the best possible place to work for our staff!
Role:
We hire with a people-first approach, so more importantly as a human, you will be collaborative, curious, enjoy solving complex problems and have empathy for the growing pains of a rapidly scaling startup.
As a Senior Data Engineer you will build, design, test and maintain the data pipelines such that they are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant.
- Work on efficiently integrating, transforming and structuring the data for use in individual analytics and BI applications consumed by our Internal team and Linktree users.
- Work with Snowflake, Python, AWS Kinesis, S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, DynamoDB, Athena, EventBridge and SQL
- Establish high quality data products that impact our users positively and enable them to make informed decisions online.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and document key decisions.
- Contribute to the vision and roadmap of Linktree’s data platform
- Work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment creating a positive impact.
- Inspire teamwork and find ways to help teammates achieve their goals
Requirements
Experience building, designing, testing and maintaining data pipelines that are robust scalable and fault-tolerant.
SQL is a must and the rest of our tech stack is a nice to have: Snowflake, Python, AWS Kinesis, S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, DynamoDB, Athena and EventBridge.
Prior experience effectively mentoring or coaching junior to mid level Data Engineers
Experience in a growing start-up is desirable where you have created and built processes.
Strong communication, ability to work as part of a team and a growth mindset.
If you've read through the requirements as a checklist and haven't ticked every box, don't rule yourself out just yet. We've seen theresearch that women and other people in minority groups tend to only apply when the checklist is all ticks and no crosses. So if you think you have what it takes, hit that apply button!
Our Culture/Benefits:
Linktree's company culture and values are based around collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and flexibility. Those are all nice words but to give you some more specific examples:
We are a family-friendly and flexible work environment with our team with a number of our team working hours around school and home commitments.
We have a paid 18 week parental leave policy that is inclusive of birth and non-birthing parents and supports the whole parenting lifecycle
We have several diversity and inclusion initiatives underway, including a D&I council, training for all staff on neurodiversity, unconscious bias and the incorporation of a transgender inclusion policy.
Our team is diverse across age, gender, and race and we are very proud of that.
All Linktree staff work either fully remote or a hybrid remote and in-office sometimes and that will continue even when COVID is behind us.
Linktree contributes up to AUD $1,000 (or foreign equivalent) towards the set up of your home work-station for each employee
We prioritise our team's mental health, with all employees having free access to Smiling Mind & Uprise, including 1:1 coaching sessions from qualified psychologists or counsellors.