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Are you passionate about using data to unlock potential for a business, while planning how to build a system that will scale to hundreds of terabytes? Are you excited about the prospect of using the latest open-source technologies to create the best data platform that can exist? Do you want to use data to influence decisions for products being used by millions of users? If yes, we want to talk to you!

Moving is one of the most universally relatable problems. Everyone has moved at least once and everyone thinks moving is painful. Updater is solving that pain at scale. We’re a well funded and growth-focused company, with technology that touches nearly 50% of all household moves in the US annually, and we’re growing quickly.

Updater’s Data Team is an independent function that takes a strategic approach to ensuring the business is leveraging data across all units to drastically improve business outcomes. We are a group of Data Engineering and Data Science/Analytics professionals, working together closely to ensure we are a data-driven company. By building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers all of our Data Science, Product, Marketing, Sales, and Success analytical and operational functions, Data Engineering is one of the most highly leveraged teams at Updater!

About the Role

• Improve our data platform tooling to help the team create dynamic tools and reporting
• Develop unified data models that provide a complete view of the user journey across our business
• Build data pipelines that track our product funnels from invite to onboarding to active usage and conversion of our product
• Improve data quality by using & improving internal tools to automatically detect issues and help keep our data clean while maximizing Updater’s company-wide KPIs
• Collaborate with our data analysts and partner teams to understand their business and guide them through growing our business through strategic conversation and data analysis

About You

• Empathy: you strive to see the world from your stakeholders’ point of view in order to anticipate their needs
• Humility: you have an opinion, but aren’t afraid to be proven wrong, and are open to suggestions on what tool or technique is best to most efficiently solve a problem
• Strong Communication: you’re as comfortable talking with our Data Analysts as you are with our Director of Engineering
• Comfort with Ambiguity: you’re used to being asked open-ended questions and working with unknown issues during the development of products
• 3+ years experience working in analytics, data engineering, or a similar role
• A strong engineering background and passion for data
• Experience in custom ETL design, implementation, and maintenance
• Knowledge of analytical databases (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) and big data structures
• Expert SQL & Python (or similar scripting language) skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bonus Points For

• Experience with data workflow management tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, etc)
• Experience with streaming data services (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, etc.)

About Updater

Updater makes moving easier for the 17 million households that relocate every year in the US. With Updater, users seamlessly forward mail, transfer utilities, connect TV and internet, and much more. Thousands of the most prominent real estate companies in the US (from real estate brokerages to multifamily and relocation companies) rely on Updater’s real estate products to save clients hours with a branded and personalized Updater moving experience.

Headquartered in New York City, Updater has raised nearly $200 million from leading investors, including SoftBank Capital, IA Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Second Century Ventures (the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®), and more. Updater ranked #3 on Crain's 2016 Best Places to Work in NYC, ranking as the highest-rated tech company on the list, and ranked #7 in 2018. For more information, please visit www.updater.com.

Updater is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.